Cleaning up government requires diluting the authority of those who might peddle their influence.
Teamwork can be the difference between success and failure in many facets of life. That's true especially when one is dealing with a cancer diagnosis.
General Assembly Democrats drafted a bill that significantly reduces financial liability to modify the 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act.
Wetlands clean our drinking water, hold and store rainwater and create nurseries and food sources, the McHenry County Conservation District writes.
There might be some members who could be open to the idea, but there simply aren’t nearly enough of those folks right now to cobble together a majority of 30 votes in the Senate and 60 in the House and a governor’s signature.
Government is about working for the public. Politics is about perception.
The so-called “Super Outbreak” of tornadoes over April 3-4, 1974, remains one of the worst tornado events in American history. Few remember that it began in Illinois.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and if the insurance companies don’t see it that way, lawmakers might force their hands.
If it is possible to separate emotions from tragedy, the ongoing legal drama in DeKalb County may prove instructive.