Illinois Senate

Illinois becomes ninth state to ban military-style guns.

As the eighth most populous county in the state, Madison would be the largest with a secession referendum on the ballot. Illinoisans who want to secede see the Metro East county as a tipping point for their movement to break free from Chicago’s political influence.

Negotiators backed down from a plan that would have forced coal plants to close by 2035.

State senators questioned health officials about inconsistencies and delays in vaccine distribution.

Legislators and lobbyists will once again fill Illinois' capitol this week, as the General Assembly returns from a two-week break. This is the time the…

A push to make Illinois schools adopt more thorough policies to prevent bullying fell short in the state Senate.The legislation would have required…

A longtime member of the Illinois Human Rights Commission has been denied another term because of material on his website about the Nation of Islam.Munir…

The Illinois Senate has agreed to end the practice of letting lawmakers hand out free college educations to their constituents.For years, the Senate had…

Illinois legislation is advancing that would regulate decades-old but debated technology used to reach previously inaccessible natural gas reserves deep…

Reporting from Rachel Otwell of WUIS used in this report. Illinois state legislators are pushing to tack on a year of math for high school students. But…