Campaign committees in Chicago Heights collectively owe a total of $10,600 in overdue fees, records obtained by the South Cook News show.

Campaign committees in Calumet City collectively owe a total of $11,225 in overdue fees, records obtained by the South Cook News show.

In a surprise announcement, Illinois Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno (R-Lemont) resigned her position and the Senate effective Saturday.

College tuition tends to rise regardless of how much money the state puts toward education, a new study reveals.

One campaign committee in Blue Island has overdue fines amounting to a total of $350, records obtained by the South Cook News show.

The Illinois General Assembly is looking to pass a bill that earmarks $166.5 million for various projects in lawmakers home districts across the state.

Larry Canning did not violate election law during his recent re-election to the Bremen High School District 228 Board of Education, an Illinois State Board of Elections (SBE) hearing officer determined recently.

A property tax freeze is not the solution to the Illinois’ high tax problem, experts from across the state told legislators on Friday during a long Property Tax Subcommittee hearing.

Gov. Bruce Rauner told listeners of the "Chicago's Morning Answer" radio show that they'd better not rely on entrenched politicians to save them.

Officials in Springfield and around the country are talking about a “pension cliff” and trying to determine what will happen as large numbers of educators become fully vested in school district pension benefit systems.

Democratic state lawmakers showed their true colors in May when they demanded an investigation into an article about apparently doomed school funding reform legislation, a radio show co-host said recently.

Illinois’ average personal income growth since the Great Recession is tied with Nevada for the worst in the country, according to data from Pew Charitable Trusts recently published on the Illinois Policy Institute website.

A petition to remove District 228 Board of Education member Larry Canning has been virtually circulating throughout the Bremen area.

Gov. Bruce Rauner urged Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday to unite and pass a balanced budget that will fund Illinois and get it back on its feet.

Illinois lowered its flags for three days recently to honor firefighter Lawrence “Larry” Matthews of the Dolton Fire Department, according to a press release.

The Illinois Republican Party will host a "Cocktails with the Congressmen" fundraising event at the Gene & Georgetti Steakhouse in Rosemont on Monday, with Gov. Bruce Rauner attending as a special guest, according to a press release.

Illinois lawmakers betray their ignorance of the needs and opinions of taxpayers when they pass huge tax increases as a way out of the ongoing budget impasse, a policy expert said on a radio program recently.

A former member of the Illinois Senate is suing the state’s comptroller to get money he claims was denied him during a decade in office — even though he voted for the measure he now claims is illegal.

Illinois’ ongoing budget problem has left the State Board of Elections in a financial hole so deep that agency officials claim they can’t afford the new computers they need to handle the number of candidates filing petitions to run in next year’s elections.

Chicago State University's (CSU) decision to shelve a West Side campus project is for the best, CSU's faculty union president and a long-serving faculty senate member told the South Cook News recently.