Alexi Giannoulias

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.

Illinois drivers can now grab bananas, paper towels and get a new vehicle sticker at select grocery stores, including one in Lombard, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Thursday.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill on Tuesday that’s aimed at providing free identification cards to more people exiting correctional facilities in Illinois. 

A bill eliminating the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities failed to pass the General Assembly ahead of its May adjournment, although sponsors say they hope to pass it when lawmakers return in the fall. It was of several that stalled.

Teen drivers will get priority treatment every Saturday this summer at select DMVs across Illinois, including in Addison, Aurora, Bathalto, Belvidere, Bridgeview, Chicago West, Des Plaines, Elgin, Joliet, Lake Zurich, Plano and St. Charles.

A bill banning what unions refer to as employer-sponsored “captive audience” meetings about religion and politics has cleared both chambers of the General Assembly, one of 466 measures to do so during the Illinois legislature’s recently concluded spring session.

Illinoisans who want documents notarized can do so without leaving their homes, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Wednesday.

House Bill 4591, an initiative of Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, would, for the first time in Illinois, require lobbyists to disclose how much they are paid by each of their clients.

A bill in the Illinois General Assembly would ban five food additives in the state by 2027.

Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who has made modernization a key priority in his first year in office, said that since rolling out the online appointment system, there have been periods when people skipped “upwards of 40 percent” of appointments made.

Certain detainees leaving Cook County jail will now be given a state ID card upon release in a new pilot program announced Monday by Sheriff Tom Dart and Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.

After seven years in the making, the state of Illinois has unveiled the monarch butterfly decal license plate.

The prospect of Huntley schools accepting a library grant from the state of Illinois – with its new anti-book-ban law raised some red flags among District 158 school board members.

Drivers would need to pass a driving test at age 79 instead of 75 under new rules filed by Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias this week.

Matt Mitchell, the former Illinois State Police trooper who caused a high-speed, distracted-driving crash that killed sisters Kelli and Jessica Uhl, has asked to delay his Sept. 20 hearing for the reinstatement of his driver’s license.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, in Washington, D.C. this week to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, said he hoped other states would “look toward Illinois” to adopt legislation similar to a bill he championed.

With a new secretary of state in Illinois, an ex-state trooper is once again seeking to regain his driving privileges after a high-speed crash that caused the deaths of teenage sisters on a busy St. Clair County interstate in 2007.