Scandal-plagued Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D.) suspended his campaign for speaker on Monday after failing to secure necessary support from his Democratic colleagues.
Jewish students at the University of Illinois filed a formal complaint with the Department of Education alleging "an unrelenting campaign of anti-Semitic harassment” on campus, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Illinois Democratic lawmaker Terry Link pleaded guilty to tax fraud on Wednesday, marking the third Democratic state senator to be accused of federal crimes in just over a year, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
A Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives called on the state to stop teaching history in public schools until educators can develop a new, non-racist curriculum.
As a coronavirus-driven cash crunch collides with nearly two decades of unbalanced budgets and exorbitant pension spending, insolvency is on the horizon in Illinois.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) endorsed the reelection of the Illinois state attorney under investigation for her handling of former Empire actor Jussie Smollett's hate crime hoax.
An investigation from the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois found disturbing abuses of the controversial practice of confining children with behavioral problems and mental disabilities.
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