The Lincoln Series, a prestigious program empowering women with leadership skills since 1994, plans a northern Illinois campaign training program from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 16 at the Palatine Township Republican Organization Headquarters.
Lawmakers will be able to stuff their wallets even as those depending on state social services suffer, the Illinois Republican Party is charging in the wake of a judge's decision on March 23.
The Wheeling City Council violated the Open Meetings Act when it required anyone wishing to speak publicly to first sign up, since such a rule is not part of the council's written policy, the attorney general announced recently.
Cook County saw more people leave its once-friendly confines between mid-2015 and mid-2016 than any other county in the United States, according to recent U.S. Census data. The county suffered a net loss of 21,324 people.
By a substantial 20-point margin, Oak Park School District 97 voters approved a referendum authorizing the issuance of bonds in Tuesday’s consolidated general elections.
By a margin of slightly over eight percent, Oak Park dwellers passed a proposal in Tuesday’s consolidated elections, choosing to approve an increase in the property tax limit for the Oak Park Elementary School District 97.
Even as Gov. Bruce Rauner continues to strive toward a potential state budget solution, House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) “delays and offers nothing,” the Chicago Tribune recently reported while continuing its coverage of Illinois’ hemorrhaging finances.
A recent report from Better Government Association (BGA) alleges that Dorothy Brown, Cook County Circuit Court clerk, may have accepted bribes and found other methods of making extra money during her tenure as clerk.
Taxpayers United of America (TUA), a non-partisan, Chicago-based advocacy group, recently urged constituents in six communities to oppose a seven-item referendum initiative on April 4 that the group believes would burden taxpayers.
U.S. Reps. Randy Hultgren (R-IL) and Peter Roskam (R-IL) are hosting a Service Academy Day from 9 a.m. to noon April 22 at St. Charles East High School for students and their families from from the 14th and 6th Congressional districts interested in U.S. service academies.
In a joint bid for New Trier Township trustee posts, three independent candidates highlighted potentially untapped local revenue as just one example of their team’s commitment to greater jurisdictional transparency.
Illinois lawmakers are using a seemingly surreptitious way to give themselves pay raises: creating new and useless committees for which they are automatically paid an extra $10,326 as chairmen, a Chicago-based think tank is arguing.
A public policy group president expressed his outrage recently against U.S. Rep. Janice Danoff "Jan" Schakowsky (D-IL) after seeing her in a photograph standing next to a woman
once convicted of a terror attack.
Communist handouts allegedly appeared on campus at New Trier High School today during a controversial day-long seminar on racism that many have accused of spreading left-wing propaganda.
One incumbent plus three challengers comprise a four-candidate slate for a total of three current vacancies on the Village of Northbrook’s board of trustees in the upcoming April 4 general election.
State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) recently attracted the attention of local radio talk show host Dan Proft and Illinois Policy Institute President and CEO John Tillman, whose remarks likened Biss to the Madigan machinery.
Fire hydrants in Mount Prospect are slated to make a splashy statement in 2017 with the community’s second annual 'Fired Up!' decorating event, a noncompetitive project open to all residents celebrating the village centennial.
In an unexpected but promising turn of events, Cook County’s Maine Township constituency recently experienced the only slightly surprising nomination of current township trustee Laura Morask to run for the position of the municipality’s supervisor.