Illinois is one of the few states that lets lawmakers or state agency chiefs become a lobbyist the day after leaving office. A new ethics bill would stop that.

House Speaker Mike Madigan has built a substantial political army through taxpayer-funded promises.

Illinoisans will soon cast a vote on the biggest ballot question in the history of Madigan’s record-breaking speakership.

Silence on a rape and about ghost workers were evidence of political loyalty that should save a state worker facing discipline, according to an email uncovered in an open records request.