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(The Center Square) – The Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from advocates for a measure that regulates social media companies to protect children. Senate Bill 1126 would implement new regulations to p...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from advocates for a measure that regulates social media companies to protect children.

Undeterred by Cook County Democrats’ decision to back appointed incumbent Justice Joy Cunningham in next year’s primary for a full term on the Illinois Supreme Court, some Latino leaders are forging ahead with an effort to elect a member of their community to the state’s highest bench. County Democratic Party leaders voted overwhelmingly last month to endorse Cunningham, who is Black, in the ...

Undeterred by Cook County Democrats’ decision to back appointed incumbent Justice Joy Cunningham in next year’s primary for a full term on the Illinois Supreme Court, some Latino leaders are forging ahead with an effort to elect a member of their community to the state’s highest bench. County Democratic Party leaders voted overwhelmingly last month to endorse Cunningham, who is Black, in the ...

The Cook County Democratic Party met Tuesday to speak to state's attorney candidates Eileen O'Neil Burke and Clayton Harris III.

The governor’s signing today of this legislation is now law and will be effective January 1, 2024.

Chicagos pensions arent just worst-in-the-nation but are so by a wide margin, and with no realistic hope for improvement.

Activists who’d long opposed mayoral control over Chicago Board of Education appointments won a victory in 2021 when Illinois legislators voted to shift authority over the state’s largest school system to a board chosen by the people. Two years later, just before 1 a.m. on May 26 in the waning hours of the Senate’s session, many of those same lawmakers hurriedly passed an amendment extending ...

Illinois taxpayers should be contributing about $250 million more a year into teacher, state employee and university faculty pension systems in order to correct violations of federal tax law, according to a recently issued report.

The state General Assembly Retirement System board voted to strip former state Rep. Luis Arroyo of his more than $4,500-a-month state pension, citing state law that allows retirement benefits to be taken from ex-lawmakers if they commit felonies arising from their time in office.