Government - State
May 26, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By SHANNON MCFARLAND - The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – Legislation that would allow people to record the public activities of police officers has stalled, because the sponsoring senator opposes the House’s changes to the measure.
May 26, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By AP
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers want to cut the number of regional school superintendents by 20 percent.
May 26, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By CHRISTOPHER WILLS - The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – Without a vote to spare, the Illinois House agreed Friday to raise cigarette taxes by $1 a pack as part of an ambitious and politically perilous plan to close a $2.7 billion budget hole that threatens health services for the state’s poor and elderly.
May 26, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By CHRIS WETTERICH - GateHouse News Service
SPRINGFIELD – State employees, teachers, university employees, judges and lawmakers would see reduced cost-of-living increases in retirement, and the costs of teacher and university pensions would be shifted to school districts, universities and colleges under a pension plan outlined by House Speaker Michael Madigan.
May 25, 2012 - 4:26 p.m.•By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Without a single vote to spare, the Illinois House agreed Friday to double the tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products to help close a $2.7 billion budget hole in health care for the poor.
May 25, 2012 - 3:03 p.m.•By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers want to cut the number of regional school superintendents by 20 percent.
May 25, 2012 - 11:01 a.m.•By CHRIS WETTERICH - GateHouse News Service
SPRINGFIELD – State employees, teachers, university employees, judges and lawmakers would see reduced cost-of-living increases in retirement and the costs of teacher and university pensions would be shifted to school districts, universities and colleges under a pension plan outlined by House Speaker Michael Madigan.
May 25, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By CHRISTOPHER WILLS - The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – Hundreds of thousands of people would see their health care cut back or even eliminated under legislation approved Thursday by Illinois lawmakers in an attempt to repair the state’s crumbling budget.
May 24, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By JOHN O'CONNOR - The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois House took another run at expanding legalized gambling Wednesday, approving a plan for a Chicago-based casino and four others and challenging Gov. Pat Quinn by refusing to back down from adding slot machines at horse racetracks.
May 23, 2012 - 4:50 p.m.•By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois House, in a 69-47 vote, passed a gambling expansion bill that would create new casinos and slot machines at the state's racetracks.
May 23, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD – Bribery charges haven't stopped an Illinois lawmaker from handing out $185,000 worth of college scholarships.
May 23, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By CHRISTOPHER WILLS – The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – A push to make Illinois schools adopt more detailed policies to prevent bullying fell short Tuesday in the state Senate amid concerns its real purpose was to lecture students on embracing homosexuality.
May 23, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.•By JOHN O'CONNOR - The Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD – The lawmaker behind Tuesday's House approval of a measure allowing people to audio record on-duty police officers says the proposal "modernizes" state law in an age when most people would find it ludicrous that they could go to prison for pulling out their smartphones and taping what they hear on the street.
May 22, 2012 - 4:42 p.m.•By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois workers would be protected from businesses that want access to their Facebook accounts and other social media under legislation sent to the governor's desk.
May 22, 2012 - 3:02 p.m.•By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois House has approved a proposal to allow people to audio record police officers and others in public.
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