Eric Krol

Hoping to prod legislators into providing enough money to close a loophole in Cook County GED testing, the State Board of Education has hired a private firm to administer the...

Illinois legislators overwhelmingly gave final approval Friday to a hot-button legislative measure that would make public the names of juveniles convicted of crimes involving guns, gangs or felony drug violations....

House Democrats continued their political mugging of Republicans on Wednesday, approving anti-crime and other measures that left GOP lawmakers with little choice but to support them. As Democratic Speaker Michael...

Like sponges too drenched to absorb anymore, the overflowing Mississippi River and other tributaries around central and southern Illinois sent thousands of residents back to sandbagging Thursday with visions of...

Looking to energize supporters for a closing surge in a close Democratic gubernatorial race, Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris picked up endorsements Friday from both ends of the party spectrum:...

Medicaid reform just might be coming to Illinois. It's early, but plans without many details are being tossed onto the table and the scramble over who gets the political credit...

On the last day she could justifiably do it, Dawn Clark Netsch on Sunday called on the other candidates running for the Democratic nomination for governor to detail their plans...

Mayor Richard Daley gave state Comptroller Dawn Clark Netsch's Democratic gubernatorial candidacy a lift Thursday when he embraced her plan to raise the state income tax in exchange for property-tax...

In a controversial move aimed at easing a huge Medicaid budget gap, Gov. Jim Edgar on Thursday imposed an 18-month rate reimbursement freeze on health-care institutions treating the poor. James...