Tag: Illinois

Empire actor Jussie Smollett, leaves the Leighton Criminal Court Building after his hearing on Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Chicago.

Smollett lawyers say he shouldn’t pay city because he didn’t know the costs

Mike Brest · September 4, 2019 8:07 pm

Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., leaves a closed-door GOP meeting on immigration, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

GOP House member who cited Bible to dismiss climate change concerns to retire

David Mark · August 30, 2019 9:01 pm

An attendee cheers during a Women For Trump campaign rally for President Donald Trump in King of Prussia, Pa., Tuesday, July 16, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Five new GOP women to watch in 2020

Carol Davis · August 28, 2019 7:13 pm

A person smokes a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn Borough of New York, U.S., on Sunday July 8, 2018.

Death possibly from vaping would be the first caused by the practice

Cassidy Morrison · August 23, 2019 7:34 pm

Willis Tower is seen in Chicago.

Chicago homeowners are suffocating under pensions and property tax hikes

Orphe Divounguy · August 23, 2019 11:48 am

Plaintiff Mark Janus stands outside the Supreme Court after the court rules in a setback for organized labor that states can't force government workers to pay union fees on Wednesday in Washington.

Janus showed me how to fight for my free speech

Randy Boudreaux · August 21, 2019 3:20 pm

In this March 25, 2014 photo, Illinois Sen. Martin Sandoval, D-Cicero, speaks during a news conference at the Illinois state Capitol, in Springfield, Ill.

State senator apologizes after mock Trump assassination photos surface

Zach Halaschak · August 19, 2019 12:59 pm

Beltway Confidential

Students fall behind while schools focus on social justice

Nicole Russell · August 15, 2019 9:01 pm

Donald Trump, Rod Blagojevich.

Trump taps the brakes on commuting Blagojevich’s sentence after calls from Illinois GOP

Tim Pearce · August 14, 2019 1:04 pm

In this June 28, 2015 photo, participants carry a rainbow-colored flag down Fifth Avenue in New York during the Heritage Pride March in New York.

Illinois mandates schools teach LGBT history to ‘overcome intolerance’

John Gage · August 13, 2019 7:23 pm

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, with his wife Patti at his side, speaks to the media in Chicago before reporting to federal prison in Denver.

Don’t let Rod Blagojevich off the hook

Washington Examiner · August 10, 2019 4:00 am

Rod Blagojevich is seen.

House GOP delegation from Illinois urges Trump not to commute Blagojevich sentence

Zach Halaschak · August 8, 2019 9:54 pm