Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch’s punishment of fellow Democrat Fred Crespo after he offered his own budget proposal was ...

"He's free to speak his mind. He's free to vote his conscience," House Speaker Emanuel 'Chris' Welch, said, but added that no ...

A heated debate over transgender athletes in school sports is reigniting in the Illinois House after a biological male runner ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan may no longer be physically present in Springfield to run the legislative show.

In addition to cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, a massive bill passed by the House on Thursday would also prohibit the health insurance program from covering gender-affirming ...

Monday morning, state Rep. Fred Crespo woke up with his wife in his Hoffman Estates bedroom, not Springfield, “which is nice.

So what is House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch doing ... was to suggest something other than more revenues to address Illinois’ fiscal woes. Even as we decry this turn of events, we ...

President Trump met with holdouts again Wednesday as leaders ramp up their efforts to build support around the bill.

A bipartisan bill to stop arbitrary time limits on anesthesia passed the Illinois Senate unanimously. The plan came to ...