Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch wants to vet the state’s underfunded pensions through a budgetary lens as the legislature ...

The defense rested its case in former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's bribery and corruption trial on Thursday.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan stepped down from the witness stand Tuesday after days of testifying in his own ...

Thank God we live in Illinois because, we’re already Trump-proof,” Welch told the Sun-Times. “We did a lot of the hard work the first time. … We took him at his word the first time when he said he ...

Indiana legislators would like to redraw the Indiana-Illinois border to absorb parts of Illinois, but the proposed action ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Once the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history, Michael Madigan took the stand Tuesday at his own ...

The Illinois House passed a bill Tuesday night to add new protections for domestic violence survivors who file an emergency ...

The Illinois House approved without opposition a bill aimed at making it easier for relatives of children in state care to ...

Several Illinois counties that have explored the idea of secession might be welcomed with open arms in Indiana. Legislators ...

Indiana's highest-ranking state representative unveils plan to redraw Indiana's boundaries to include Illinois counties which ...

(Bloomberg) -- Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch wants to vet the state’s underfunded pensions through a budgetary lens as the legislature looks to close a potentially $3 billion deficit for ...