Tightening up regulation on Delta-8 and other forms of synthetic THC should be a relative no-brainer. And yet, Illinois pols ...

What is shaping up to be the most challenging year of Gov. JB Pritzker’s tenure began in Springfield with an inauspicious ...

Despite the Senate approval and Gov. JB Pritzker’s endorsement, the issue more or less imploded during the waning hours of ...

A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in and legislators now face several tough issues including how to plug a projected ...

Illinois’ new batch of lawmakers will face a number of challenges in 2025. Chief among them is a projected $3.2 billion budget deficit.

A day after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered strong criticism of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s relationships in ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is downplaying recent conflicts with the city council and others. Mayor Johnson doesn’t deny ...

An already contentious relationship still can be salvaged if a mayor and governor who need each other to solve their ...

The failure of a little-noticed bill to regulate hemp has much bigger implications as a new Legislature is sworn in.

There was a raucous meeting of the Democratic House caucus, in which there was a lot of yelling at staff by people who were ...

But the bill also created rifts within the House Democratic caucus. According to several sources, the hemp regulation bill was the focus of a three-hour closed-door caucus meeting Monday that some ...

The legislation passed and sent to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk during the General Assembly’s brief lame-duck session was ...