Illinois State Rep. Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva) is convinced the Illinois Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill requiring all new state workers to reside within the boundaries of the state screams desperation.

Newly elected Park Forest Mayor John Vanderbilt believes it is up to the people of the village to save themselves.

Language in the constitutional amendment proposed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker as part of his graduated income tax could leave Illinoisans on the hook for additional taxes, claim critics of the plan.

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider finds it difficult to seriously consider Gov. J.B. Pritzker's graduated income tax-hike proposal, given the source of the plan's own history of personal finance.

Ideas Illinois Chairman Greg Baise is critical of the graduated income tax proposal being pursued by Gov. J.B. Pritzker and House Speaker Mike Madigan.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is now embarking on a final push toward generating all the support he can muster for his long-promoted progressive tax proposal.

Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) Executive Director Richard Pearson recently took time to salute members for taking part in the latest Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD), including 91-year-old member Joyce Lindelof.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has a lot more work ahead of him than just getting his much-promoted graduated income tax proposal across the finish line, according to at least one organization that is fearful about the state's future.

Illinois government watchdog Wirepoints views Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax proposal as an equal opportunity destroyer.

Chicago attorney Shorge Sato is not convinced that mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot’s plan to tax large law and accounting firms as a way of generating funds for the cash-strapped city is the best idea.

Illinois’ steadily rising outmigration numbers may not tell the whole story about the state’s declining population.

Flossmoor resident and pro-life activist Kris Cortes is taking Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn to task over his support for the repel of the Parental Notice of Abortion Act that now requires minors to inform a parent or guardian before having an abortion procedure performed.

Attorney Eugene Keefe sees no need for a law now being proposed that will amend the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Workers' Compensation Act, and the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act in one fell swoop by replacing phrasing such as "employee class" with "representative of a labor organization recognized” under the National Labor Relations Act.

Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) executive director Richard A. Pearson is urging all “law-abiding gun owners” to turn out for Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD) on March 27 in Springfield.

When it comes to its accelerating outmigration crisis, Illinois has now deteriorated into an island among Rust Belt states, and a sinking one at that.

A bill that would repeal the Parental Notification of Abortion Act of 1995, which stipulates that a parent or guardian be made aware when a minor is considering undergoing an abortion, has passed out of a Senate committee solely on the strength of Democratic support.

A non-partisan fiscal agency reports that it has yet to come to terms with the numbers projected under Gov. J.B. Pritzker's graduated income-tax structure.

Former National Rifle Association President David Keene is set to serve as the keynote speaker for this year’s Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day (IGOLD) event on March 27.

State Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) insists that his motivations for sponsoring House Resolution 0169 are simple.

Illinois’ standing in the national business community would only continue its downward spiral under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive-tax system, according to the latest findings of the Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index.