Frustration boiled over for state Rep. Ryan Spain (R-Peoria) earlier this month. The representative was annoyed with the lack of progress in the statehouse on Illinois' most important issues.
Knox County Treasurer Robin Davis gave her support for a bill that would amend the election code to allow small counties to dissolve their board of election commissioners in a House Ethics and Elections Committee hearing last month.
Knox County District 3 board representative Pam Davidson appeared before a House Ethics and Elections Committee hearing last month to show her support for a bill that would amend the election code to allow small counties to do away with their board of election commissioners.
State Rep. Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) sponsors a legislation that proposes county boards or county boards of commissioners for small counties be given the power to dissolve their election commissions.
Republican lawmakers were hopeful that this would be the decade for a fair legislative district remapping process, especially after Gov. Pritzker vowed during his campaign to reject any maps made by politicians and to support a fair map instead.
The statehouse is abuzz with conversation about the redistricting of Illinois' legislative districts, which the Democratic majority must have done by June 30 if they don't want to see the process referred to an independent, bipartisan mapping commission.
A bill proposed to amend the Election Code to allow small county governments to dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners received backlash at an April 27 hearing.
Lawmakers are disappointed that Gov. J.B. Pritzker has broken his promise to veto any partisan map presented by Democrats for this year's remapping of the legislative districts.
Illinois lawmakers are frustrated with the state's unemployment offices and their constituents waiting a month or longer for an unemployment insurance callback.
Legislation introduced by state Sen. Win Stoller (R-Germantown Hills) that aims to save small business owners thousands of dollars passed the Senate last week.
The deadline for Illinois lawmakers to finalize this decade's new legislative map is fast approaching, and state Republicans are no closer to approving the Democrats' approach to the remapping duty.
State lawmakers have just a little over two months to finalize new Illinois legislative districts before the remapping process is delegated to an independent commission, a prospect that Republicans argue would be better for the state after decades of gerrymandering.
The numbers are in for the official 2020 U.S. Census data, and Illinois has experienced a population drop for the first time in two centuries, confirming an outcome that many have long feared: a congressional seat is being taken away from the Prairie State.
The battle between state lawmakers over whether the once-a-decade redrawing of Illinois' legislative districts should be done now by the Democrat-controlled legislature or referred to an independent committee of residents continues.
Residents of Washington who will drive the streets looking for dazzling Christmas light displays should have no trouble finding the home of Mike Rodcay, a Washington resident who is going above and beyond to spread holiday cheer for the second year in a row.
The middle and high school students of Peoria Public Schools returned to their classrooms quicker than anticipated, made possible by a $200,000 by former Caterpillar, Inc. President Robert Gilmore.