Like every Democratic governor, Gov. JB Pritzker needs his party to win back the U.S. House next year to prevent further fiscal damage to his state (among many, many other things). Hence, his intense attention to Texas attempting to pick up five seats with an intercensus remap.

The statewide ticket recently endorsed by the Cook County Democratic Party is overwhelmingly made up of white Chicagoans, with two Black Chicagoans and no Latinos or Asian Americans.

Illinois’ transit funding crisis is being reshaped by a sales tax windfall, sparking debate over whether the Regional Transportation Authority should spend the unexpected $150 million now or wait for legislative reforms.

The costs to Illinois’ government because of the new Republican congressional budget reconciliation law will be steep.

Once a brash young political outsider dubbed “The Chosen One” for his rapid rise under Toni Preckwinkle, Christian Mitchell now returns to the spotlight as Gov. Pritzker’s running mate –battle-tested, bridge-building and still fiercely ambitious.

Column: I am retiring in August from teaching at Northern Illinois University and have decided to retire from writing this monthly column as well, writes Mary Gardner. She adds in parting: Literacy cannot only be for certain groups of people.

More legislators than you may realize have received credible threats of violence or have been stalked. Most refuse to talk about it for the record, but those shootings showed what could’ve happened to them and what still may happen in the future.

Human beings tend to wait until the last minute to do things. But the leaders need to start enforcing earlier deadlines for giant issues like this energy proposal so they can deal with other time-sensitive things (the budget and revenues, for instance) at the end.

For quite a while now, most folks in politics have assumed that Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and Comptroller Susana Mendoza will probably run for mayor of Chicago in 2027.