State Sen. Mike Halpin secured funding for the Illinois DNR to study the dams and help decide their future. The project faced ...

Illinois Boundary Adjustment Commission" to redraw state lines and absorb 33 rural Illinois counties that want to split from ...

Last week’s Illinois Supreme Court decision dismissing a Republican challenge to the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps prompted two common public reactions.

That leaves intact legislative maps that badly undermine democracy in Illinois. Any reasonable, non-partisan person looking at the facts would arrive at that conclusion. State House districts are so ...