Andrew Adams - Capitol News Illinois

Regulators at the Illinois Commerce Commission are nearing decisions in several high-profile cases that could determine changes to utility bills for millions of Illinoisans

Preliminary, unofficial election results show no seats in the state House or Senate have changed party hands, although a few races remained too close to call according to the Associated Press

In total, campaigns have spent at least $633 million in this election cycle, according to state board data

State Comptroller Susana Mendoza this week announced her office would suspend certain state payments to the village of Orland Park after the suburb failed to file annual financial reports with the state for two years.

Funding for public transportation has become a top priority for some lawmakers over the past two years as transit agencies in Chicago area have sounded alarm bells on a looming financial crisis.

Lawmakers in Illinois are asking voters to weigh in on three hot-button issues on their ballots this year: election interference, income taxes and reproductive health care.

Around 4.6 million records associated with Illinoisans in over a dozen counties – including voting records, registrations and death certificates – were temporarily available on the open internet, according to a security researcher who identified the vulnerability in July

An appeals court last week reversed state regulators’ approval of a permit for the Illinois portion of an 800-mile, high-voltage transmission line, setting up a possible fight at the state’s Supreme Court

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday kicked off a decade-long process to address the needs of aging Illinoisans, signing an executive order to hire a chief planning officer within the state’s Department on Aging

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signed a measure designating the “giant puffball” as the state’s mushroom after signing hundreds of bills on Friday, completing action on legislation sent to him by lawmakers this spring.

A new airport in Chicago’s far south suburbs could bring thousands of jobs and a $1 billion economic impact, according to a new report

Calls of “Justice for Sonya” rang through the sanctuary of a church on Chicago’s West Side on Tuesday at a rally hosted in response to the death of Sonya Massey on July 6. 

The complaints allege officials at a Chicago juvenile detention center “implemented systematic and unconstitutional strip searches of juvenile inmates” at the juvenile jail and those searches “provided the opportunity” for sexual abuse of minors.

The two largest privately owned water utilities in Illinois are seeking to raise rates for a combined 1.5 million customers around the state

New safety requirements for carbon dioxide pipelines as well as a temporary ban on their construction are now in effect after Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed a bill that passed the General Assembly earlier this year