The sweeping federal corruption investigation threatens to derail Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s progressive tax hike amendment, which voters will decide Nov. 3.

Two areas of Illinois faced the same COVID-19 threat but received very different treatment from the governor. One is home to a political power base he needs to pass his progressive income tax in November.

With House Speaker Mike Madigan’s longevity comes a patronage army paid with public dollars.

Illinoisans have the lowest trust in state government of any state in the nation.

New polling data show nearly 3 in 4 Illinoisans lack confidence in Springfield.

From taxpayer- and donor-funded spending sprees by the president of an Illinois public college, to Chicago’s red-light-camera ticketing and kick-back schemes, 2015 has been rife with instances of public corruption and lack of government transparency.

Chicago aldermen are now operating without a city watchdog.

The residential-center horror stories demonstrate that corruption in government often hurts the most vulnerable among us. It also shows that exposing those injustices can lead to change.