Greg Baise is desperately trying to make sense of all the tax madness.

Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA), is calling for a united front in the organization’s battle to preserve the rights of legal gun owners.

Mark Glennon says he marvels at how Illinois’s lingering pension system crisis now has Democrats basically talking in riddles.

Austin Berg wants Chicago-area residents to fully understand the depths to which he thinks local government has fallen

Aaron DeGroot laments Democrats in Springfield are far from being in the minority in at least one way.

Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA), is calling upon its members to keep abreast of what is happening in Springfield.

A bill that would amend the Illinois's criminal code to make parental bullying a crime has been assigned to the House Judiciary-Criminal Committee for further consideration.

According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data, at least 1.5 million residents have fled Illinois since the start of the new millennium, and Wirepoints website places the bulk of the blame squarely on the state’s “lethal combination of rising property taxes and stagnant incomes.”

The Illinois Republican Party is pointing to a secret FBI recording of a Chicago alderman allegedly assuring a local developer of the perks to come from striking an alliance with longtime House Speaker Mike Madigan as just a snapshot of the way he has always operated.

Illinois residents may soon come to realize a change of scenery in the Governor’s Mansion may not be enough to give the state a different look.

Richard Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, is warning members that he believes Senate Bill 107, aimed at banning “assault weapons,” will not be the last attack on legal gun owners.

The pressure is building on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to make good on his campaign promise of implementing a fair and balanced redistricting map.

Jeff Carter really doesn’t see many losers in schools such as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign looking to protect their rapidly growing international student base.

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider says he walked away from new Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s inaugural address feeling more fearful for the state than ever.

A growing trend that has international students pouring onto college campuses here in the United States has Illinois state Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine) worried about the futures of students here at home.

Former Rep. Jeanne Ives, a Republican from Wheaton, hardly sees former Gov. Bruce Rauner, whose last day in office was today, as the man most qualified to offer advice about the party’s direction.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is being called on to make ethics a first order of business for his new administration.

Trey Kovacs insists he isn’t surprised that at least some public sector unions are still resorting to what he calls the same strong-arm tactics they relied on before a landmark 2018 Supreme Court ruling supposedly outlawed them.

Tim Schneider, chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, says no politician in Illinois should be able to get away with what Chicago Ald. Ed Burke is accused of doing.

State Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-East Dundee) views the GOP's losses in November as an opportunity for rebirth.