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Of the more than 4.1 million votes cast statewide, 21% were submitted at early-voting sites and 18% were cast through the mail.

McCombie, a Republican from Savanna, is the first woman to lead an Illinois House caucus. She is also the first downstate House leader since 1983.

Illinois House Republicans on Tuesday chose state Rep. Tony McCombie, R-Savanna, to succeed longtime House Minority Leader Jim Durkin.

According to Illinois political operatives and experts, Madigan’s hold on his caucus was the result of his near-unilateral control over the legislative process and a dominant political organization with a

Randy Witter has learned a thing or two during his 48 years of lobbying work at the Illinois State Capitol. "I learned early on that...

BRENDEN MOORE At least thats how one person close to the process described it to me. And other observers of Illinois politics and government seem to agree.  "On a visceral level, its probably the most contentious issue before the General Assembly because it has the potential to personally affect the career of every member sitting there," said Charlie Wheeler, the retired director of the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois Springfield.  Indeed, much i...

Hear Sean Crawfords interview with Charlie Wheeler here. How well have the efforts of Samuel Witwer and his 117 fellow delegates met the tests he laid out in the convention’s closing moments in the half century that’s passed since the convention’s final adjournment? The question is especially timely now, as the citizens he cited ratified the delegates’ work 50 years ago this month, on December 15, 1970. While hardly an unbiased observer—covering Con-Con was this writer’s first ma...

Hear Sean Crawfords interview with Charlie Wheeler here. How well have the efforts of Samuel Witwer and his 117 fellow delegates met the tests he laid out in the convention’s closing moments in the half century that’s passed since the convention’s final adjournment? The question is especially timely now, as the citizens he cited ratified the delegates’ work 50 years ago this month, on December 15, 1970. While hardly an unbiased observer—covering Con-Con was this writer’s first ma...