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Valentine’s Day is supposed to be a celebration of love and romance – but some people in Bucks are fighters, not lovers, as it turns out.

The Illinois General Assembly is without a watchdog. The former legislative inspector general quit after saying she was just a paper tiger. Now lawmakers cannot agree on her replacement.

Once again, the post of legislative inspector general is vacant.

Illinois legislators left Springfield without naming a new inspector general, leaving a key watchdog office vacant.

Illinois legislators left Springfield late Wednesday without naming a new inspector general amid partisan squabbling over a replacement, leaving a key watchdog office vacant even as federal prosecutors continue their

Illinois lawmakers are on a fast-track schedule in an election-year session as they attempt to pass a budget and complete other tasks against an early April adjournment date.

The June primary election will hover over Illinois legislative session as lawmakers try to finish a budget and other work by April. Heres a look at the tasks they face.

State Sen. Jil Tracy said she has asked the General Assembly’s Democratic and Republican leaders to help resolve the impasse but hasn’t heard back.

How Artist Ellen Altfest Built a Fully Functioning Studio Outdoors—and Manages to Resist Cell-Phone Distractions While Painting There The artist’s current show of watercolors is on view now at White Cube. Ellen Altfest. © Vincent Dillio. Ellen Altfest paints her subjects—gourds, armpits, male anatomy—in such painstakingly fine detail that it can take months, or even years, to realize a single composition. In recent years, Altfest, who is based in New York, has increasingly turned her e...