Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Democrats continue to hold a supermajority in the Illinois House thanks to illegally gerrymandered House districts, House Republicans allege in a new lawsuit filed with the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday.
Illinois lawmakers are taking action against the Trump administration's federal funding freeze. And Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge temporarily blocked the order.
Samantha Slecka spent the better part of three days strapped down to a chair in Madison County Jail in the summer of 2022. It was the same jail where her fiancé had attempted suicide only months earlier.
Illinois lawmakers kicked off their spring legislative session roughly three weeks ago, but lawmakers in the House have already filed more than 1,800 bills that could be acted on before the General Assembly adjourns in May.
The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed take up a Petition for Leave to Appeal filed by Sangamon County State's Attorney John Milhiser regarding the detention of a former Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy charged with first-degree murder in the July 6 fatal shooting of Sonya Massey.