Mike Madigan knew for a very long time that the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI badly wanted to put his head on a spike.

Abraham Lincoln was a man of many achievements. He’s also the only president to hold a patent.

The latest report from the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget projected Illinois is facing a $3.2 billion deficit in fiscal 2026.

She was called “Brave Bessie” or “Queen Bess.” Decades after her death, aviators still remembered her name.

To many Statehouse types, some of last week’s news out of Washington, D.C., felt eerily familiar.

It was televised by two networks and was not even close to a sellout, despite ticket prices as low as $6. It was thrown together in 26 days. And it had an unwieldy name. 

The Illinois legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability recently released an eye-popping actuarial analysis of a union-backed pension reform plan.

It was supposed to be a fun-filled weekend in Chicago for deserving students from the Illinois School for the Deaf in Jacksonville. The whirlwind schedule included a visit to a museum, a basketball game, and a stay in a luxury hotel. Then it went horribly wrong. 

Few toys capture the imagination like Lego bricks. There’s even a day on the calendar to celebrate them.