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Three local communities have a few hundred thousand more dollars at their disposal to fund new emergency vehicles thanks to the Fire Truck Revolving Loan Program and Ambulance Revolving Loan

A 2018 state law holding repeat gun offenders behind bars longer will be repealed on January 1.

Less than 12 months before Chicago voters head to the polls to elect the city’s school board for the first time, Illinois lawmakers adjourned for the year Thursday without reaching an agreement on how to conduct the first round of balloting. The House and Senate each approved separate plans for the election, but the House moved first and gaveled its session to a close before the Senate voted ...

The Illinois state Senate voted Wednesday to lift a moratorium on new nuclear power installments that has been in place for nearly four decades.

Illinois senators approved a plan Wednesday to lift the 1987 moratorium on nuclear construction months after Gov. JB Pritzker vetoed a similar plan that gained bipartisan support in both chambers.

The Illinois Senate has approved lifting a 36-year-old moratorium on new nuclear power installments. Proponents say the plan endorsed Wednesday will ensure the state can meet its carbon-free power production

Illinois House and Senate Democrats remained divided Wednesday over how to handle the transition to a fully elected Chicago school board, while supporters of a controversial tax credit program for private school scholarships that’s set to expire at the end of the year were skeptical they’d be able to round up enough votes for an extension. With one session day remaining on the legislative ...

There has been no movement on efforts to extend scholarship tax credits or allow legislative staff to unionize.

The two-week veto session has seen heated debate over these and other subjects, including regulating the yet-to-be-formed elected Chicago School Board and the controversial Invest in Kids tax credit program

The Illinois Senate approved lifting a 36-year-old moratorium on new nuclear power installments on Wednesday in a plan proponents say will ensure the state...