Scudder deftly explains the case history and why Madigan’s appellate arguments failed, routinely addressing what a reasonable jury could believe based on everything shown at trial.

Lawmakers have filed more than 11,400 bills and resolutions since the current General Assembly started in January 2025.

Anti-violence might be my deepest held personal position. But that comes from understanding how much we actually have normalized the scourge.

The people’s business isn’t always done in the predawn hours of Memorial Day weekend or crammed into a January lame duck session.

IEPA estimates the remediations have an average cost of $150,000 per site and said its Underground Storage Tank Fund holds more than $80 million as of April 7. Ignoring inflation, five projects per year means it would take 106 years to burn through the entire fund.

How are supposed to kids supposed to know what’s happening on their Chromebooks if they’re looking at their iPhones?

Few love the idea of a central government database, state or federal, tying everyone’s everything into a single record.

Rose, who co-chairs the Legislative Audit Commission, dressed down DOC Director LaToya Hughes for helming an agency with 40 shortcomings in fiscal 2023 and 2024.

When ethics laws don’t explicitly ban certain conduct, the result is that the powerful are invited to dance in the gray areas until jurists ultimately define the actual rules.