Hours before the fiscal year runs out, the Illinois House voted 90-25 to approve a budget amendment.

A government oversight group is urging the Illinois attorney general's public access counselor to subpoena the City of Carlinville for records the group has been asking for since February.

John Baldwin, the director of the Illinois Department of Corrections, recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Canton Daily Ledger urging state Sen. David Koehler (D-46th) to challenge the leaders of the Democratic Party to pass a state budget to fund prisons.