A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in and legislators now face several tough issues including how to plug a projected ...

A day after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered strong criticism of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s relationships in ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is downplaying recent conflicts with the city council and others. Mayor Johnson doesn’t deny ...

An already contentious relationship still can be salvaged if a mayor and governor who need each other to solve their ...

The failure of a little-noticed bill to regulate hemp has much bigger implications as a new Legislature is sworn in.

There was a raucous meeting of the Democratic House caucus, in which there was a lot of yelling at staff by people who were ...

But the bill also created rifts within the House Democratic caucus. According to several sources, the hemp regulation bill was the focus of a three-hour closed-door caucus meeting Monday that some ...

Chicago’s kids are ending up in hospitals after ingesting synthetic THC in the form of gummies. Their mayor just kept that ...

Since spring of 2024, lawmakers in Springfield considered a crackdown on hemp and Delta 8 products; the Illinois senate passed the regulation bill 54-1. Governor JB Pritzker threw his support behind ...

A bill that would have imposed regulations on new types of intoxicating substances derived from hemp stalled in the Illinois House Tuesday, dealing a political setback to Gov. JB Pritzker after he ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson dodged questions about the budget and teachers' contract, while downplaying how strained his ...