A Germantown Hills native is now the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood made the announcement ...

Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch wants to vet the state’s underfunded pensions through a budgetary lens as the legislature ...

SPRINGFIELD — About two-thirds of the members of the Illinois House of Representatives are Democrats, a level of dominance that allows the party to control all levers of power in the chamber.

We want to be very attentive to these issues. We want to hear from the stakeholders. We want to get this right," says Speaker ...

(Bloomberg) -- Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch ... Welch, a Democrat who has led the state House of Representatives for four years, said the new panel will hone in on appropriations and will ...

California, Illinois and New York are shrinking. Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. With America’s population shifting ...

Jefferson served on the Winnebago Co. board for many years before getting elected as the first Black person from the area to serve in the Illinois House of Representatives. Jefferson's work in ...

California, Illinois and New York are shrinking ... challenge that could reduce their path to winning the U.S. House of Representatives or the White House for the long term.

Madigan, 82, and his co-defendant, political ally and confidant Michael McClain, are accused of running a criminal enterprise designed to enrich the former speaker and his associates and increase his ...

The arguments follow 11 weeks of testimony in which jurors heard from 63 witnesses. Most notable among them was Michael ...