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President Donald Trump travels to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to meet with Senate Republicans at their weekly policy lunch as he pushes forward on tax cuts. Trump will speak broadly about the GOP agenda, according to a Senate aide.
Choose your news! Select the text alerts you want to receive: breaking news, prep sports scores, school closings, weather, and more. Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidates Daniel Biss , Bob Daiber, Tio Hardiman, Chris Kennedy, Alexander Paterakis and J.B. Pritzker answer questions about their candidacy at an event Wednesday in Mount Prospect.
In this Jan. 27, 2010 file photo, voters cast their ballots for Illinois' primary at an early voting polling place in Chicago. Voter rights advocates are suddenly pushing Illinois election officials to withdraw from a longtime multi-state voter registration database over questions of accuracy, security and voter suppression.
A Democratic senator who received the Purple Heart after losing both her legs in the Iraq War lambasted President Donald Trump for playing a "sick political game" with the deaths of fallen US service members. During an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett Outfront," Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois said she had "utter disgust" for the way Trump has politicized his interactions with Gold Star soldiers.
Just 22% had been completed as of Sunday, making it one of the slowest harvests on record, with Midwest rains prompting the delay. In fact, it is the third slowest harvest in the past 20 years, behind on those in 2009 and 2014.
At the start of this "momentous" Supreme Court term - as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called it - most people are focused on partisan gerrymandering. But it's not clear that there are five votes for inserting courts into every redistricting decision, thereby creating an election-lawyer full-employment act.
Flanked by supporters, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner announces at a news conference that he'll sign legislation allowing state health insurance and Medicaid coverage for abortions, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 in Chicago.
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner sold out conservatives in this state on September 28 when he signed the controversial HB 40, which guarantees that abortion will remain available and legal in the state of Illinois.
On September 21, 2017, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an opinion aggressively limiting general personal jurisdiction over corporations. Cook, Madison, McLean and St. Clair counties in Illinois are all affected.
The builder of the Dakota Access pipeline sent North Dakota $15 million on Thursday to help pay law enforcement bills related to months of sometimes violent protests over the project's construction. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners has wired the money, said Mike Nowatzki, a spokesman for Gov. Doug Burgum.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner ended months of speculation Thursday and signed legislation allowing state health insurance and Medicaid coverage for abortions, as the first-term Republican reversed his stance on the proposal from last spring. The General Assembly controlled by Democrats approved the measure in May but delayed sending it to Rauner until Monday, in part because he has changed his mind about support of the plan.
Tossing control of federal health care dollars back to the states is something the Left stands firmly against - and exactly what the Republican U.S. Senate majority's latest attempt at reforming ObamaCare would do. Illinois' Left had nothing to fear from the state's two elected U.S. Senators.
Illinois residents aren't the only ones throwing up their hands at the gridlock and increasingly polarized politics that have defined state government in recent years. More and more, fed-up and frustrated Illinois legislators are heading for the exits.
This Saturday in Normal is the Rally to Ratify, a rally to ask Illinois legislators to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment . The event will have numerous speakers, from state representatives to McLean County officials to Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University students.
President Trump's job approval rating in the RealClearPolitics average of polls is 39.9 percent. That's actually up a bit from Trump's low of 37.4 percent, reached on August 14. The RCP average, made up of results from the most recent surveys, is a national measure.
In this June 14, 2017, file photo, Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza, responds to a reporter's question during an interview in Chicago. Gov. Bruce Rauner acknowledged Thursday, Sept.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's plan to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation -- an act Washington state's attorney general called "a dark time for our country." The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of New York.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia on sued Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's plan to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation - an act Washington state's attorney general called "a dark time for our country." The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of New York.
AP photo Gov. Bruce Rauner signs education funding reform bill SB 1947 on Aug. 31 at Ebinger Elementary School in Chicago. Democratic-leaning Illinois is the latest state to direct taxpayer money to private schools, a move that's caught some by surprise and drawn condemnation from politically powerful teacher unions and Democrats looking to defeat GOP Gov. Rauner in 2018.