1 day agoBipartisan redistricting panel starts off with partisan mapsA new bipartisan redistricting commission is looking at two sets of distinctly partisan maps as it sets out to draw new boundaries for Virginia's General Assembly distric...
2 days agoAs leaders reconvene at UN, climate and COVID top the listDespite the still raging COVID-19 pandemic, more than 100 world leaders are heading to New York for the annual high-level U.N. gathering.
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Byron’s nuclear plant has generated jobs and revenue for decades. Now its future is on the line in Springfield: ‘We’re pawns in a big chess game’chicagotribune.com
Illinois governor sends controversial anti-corruption bill back to lawmakers but calls it first step toward restoring public trustchicagotribune.com
Judge rejects GOP effort to invalidate Democratic-drawn legislative map, but warns Democrats to make fixes that address minority concernschicagotribune.com
Legal marijuana, revoking the death penalty and 16 other laws that go into effect across Virginia on July 1
Gov. J.B. Pritzker to sign measure allowing college athletes to hire agents and be paid for endorsementschicagotribune.com
Fitch shifts Illinois’ state government’s economic outlook from negative to positivechicagotribune.com
Mexican-American civil rights group sues to block Illinois Democratic-drawn legislative mapschicagotribune.com
Illinois legislators approve proposal to ask voters if workers should have a ‘fundamental right’ to organize under the state constitutionchicagotribune.com
Lesser-known ComEd law cost customers $600 million last 7 years, says new analysis as negotiations continue amid scandalchicagotribune.com
Democrats offer new legislative district boundary maps in effort to control Illinois General Assembly for another decadechicagotribune.com
Bill to have people convicted of certain domestic violence crimes lose their gun rights heads to governor’s desk
Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs sweeping Illinois criminal justice overhaul, which will end cash bail starting in 2023chicagotribune.com
Pritzker adds Illinois legislators to the list of those eligible for COVID-19 shots in phase 1b, but says he’s not getting in linechicagotribune.com
Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Feb. 3 with COVID-19 in the Chicago areachicagotribune.com
Illinois House speaker’s chief of staff tests positive for COVID-19 after lame-duck session, tells lawmakers and staff to self-quarantinechicagotribune.com
Illinois General Assembly approves sweeping criminal justice overhaul that would end cash bail, require cops to wear body cameraschicagotribune.com
Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Jan. 8 with COVID-19 in the Chicago areachicagotribune.com
Chicago Public Schools’ reopening plan a step closer to reality after teachers union injunction is deniedchicagotribune.com
Pritzker lays out $700 million in cuts, blasts GOP for failing to offer alternatives after working to scuttle graduated income taxchicagotribune.com
House Speaker Michael Madigan and federal corruption investigation loom over state House, Senate raceschicagotribune.com
Illinois sees another record daily high with 6,363 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, another region gets hit with tighter restrictionschicagotribune.com
Coronavirus in Illinois updates: Heres what happened May 2-3 with COVID-19 in the Chicago areachicagotribune.com
