Madigan rules Illinois with an iron grip. And failure to follow through on a favor can come with dire consequences.
Despite the city’s impending teachers strike, unaffordable pension debt and declining population, a Chicago alderman warns against late night trick-or-treating for fear of clowns.
Just as Illinoisans elect state representatives, state representatives elect the speaker of the House every two years. To become the speaker, Madigan just needs a majority vote.
Illinoisans have the lowest trust in state government of any state in the nation.
Gov. Bruce Rauner has laid off dozens of workers at a state agency, all political hires under previous governors.
The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed an earlier decision keeping the legislative mapmaking process in political hands.
Illinois politicians love to be involved in choosing their voters, especially Madigan.
Chicago leads the way in numerous corruption headlines yet again.
More than 60 percent of Illinois’ state legislative races in 2016 will be uncontested.
Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95 joins a growing number of Illinois school districts instituting biometric-information-based technology for purchases, raising concerns about privacy.
A longtime associate of House Speaker Mike Madigan is working to silence Illinois voters on the subject of political mapmaking.
City Council violates procedural rules and plays political games to put popular, but toothless, measures on the ballot and protect the mayor and bureaucrats from any real challenges to their power.
Headlines in June show why Chicago is considered one of the most corrupt cities in the world.
A principle once invoked to shake down speakeasies is now used to pick winners and losers in a city desperate for opportunity.