After last week’s “ComEd Four” guilty verdicts that dealt directly with corruption at the Illinois statehouse, the call for ethics reforms continue to grow.

Tuesday in Springfield, former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn urged Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders to call a special legislative session to focus on ethics.

A group of Republican state lawmakers said Wednesday that a lack of guidance from the Illinois attorney general’s office after a federal court in southern Illinois temporarily put the state’s sweeping gun ban on hold late last month has left residents who bought high-powered firearms prohibited under the law in legal jeopardy.

Gun shops across the state late last month resumed selling high-powered semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines subject to the ban after a federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois issued an injunction April 28 blocking enforcement of the law. That decision was reversed six days later by the Chicago-based U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, which previously had declined to block the law in a separate case.

Eleven days after serving a federal prison term for corruption, a former Illinois legislator from Chicago’s western suburbs registered as a state government lobbyist last month, according to federal and state records.

Ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton, a Democrat from Villa Park, pleaded guilty last summer in federal court to embezzling funds from a labor union and was sentenced to more than a year in prison.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a law providing full disability benefits to Chicago police officers and firefighters struck by COVID-19 before vaccines were available, presiding over an emotional statehouse ceremony which marked the end of a financial struggle for responders including the brother of Comptroller Susana Mendoza.

The Act-of-Duty law, HB3162, ensures disability benefits of 75% of salary plus health insurance for anyone unable to work after contracting the coronavirus from March 9, 2020, when the flare-up intensified in Illinois, until June 30, 2021. The law grants them the presumption that they picked up the illness on the job.

A new bill opposed by ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft is moving closer to becoming law, a move that the companies say could force them to end services in Illinois.

The bill follows a case in which a Chicago woman sued Lyft after claiming she was sexually assaulted by the driver. Lyft argued since their drivers were defined by Illinois law not to be common carriers, they were not liable for any damages.

When Lori Lightfoot looks back on her single term as mayor of Chicago, she may remember Feb. 14, 2020, as her last normal day.

As a bitter wind iced the city, Lightfoot relished the chance to confront the well-heeled crowd gathered for a luncheon hosted by the City Club of Chicago about the deep-seated problems facing Chicago.

In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. JB Pritzker recalls being handed a report from researchers at the University of Illinois.

The analysis was written by scientists and mathematicians who were trying to estimate how many deaths and hospitalizations would occur under different scenarios – one if the state took no action; another if it imposed only moderate mitigation measures; and yet another if it imposed significant measures such as a stay-at-home order.

An emu is on the loose in Central Illinois and one man thinks it might be his.

It was on I-74 near Urbana Tuesday, but police couldn’t grab it. Experts say it can be tough.

They’re big birds, weigh around 100 pounds, and can run anywhere from 20-30 miles per hour. Plus, the more you try to approach them, the more they run away.