Rep. Reggie Phillips (R-Charleston) is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the capture of vandals who raided one of his senior-assisted living construction worksites and damaged valuable equipment.
State Rep. Stephanie Kifowit (D-Oswego) voted Wednesday night to bail out Chicago Public Schools (CPS), shifting state school funding from suburban districts.
All of the Democrats hoping to unseat Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2018 are backing Speaker of the House Michael Madigan's budget goal of raising taxes rather than enacting reforms, a Madigan spokesman told the Chicago Tribune recently.
The Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives in early May, is a positive move, a health care policy advisor for the Heartland Institute in Chicago said recently.
Rep. Keith Wheeler (R-Oswego) decried a workers' compensation reform bill that Democrats passed during the final hours of the legislative session on Wednesday.