After failing to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, which stripped a Chicago bailout from the education funding proposal, Illinois House members voted to pass a compromise bill containing the state’s first-ever tax credit scholarship program.

A bill Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed Aug. 25 would have imposed new regulations and fees upon businesses to enforce trampoline safety measures.

Illinois school districts spent $1 billion on district-level administration in fiscal year 2014 – more than any other state.

House Bill 4082 would ban Illinois home rule counties from levying taxes on sweetened drinks by volume sold.

Defenders of Senate Bill 1 are putting a bailout of Chicago Public Schools ahead of their own local school districts.

Defenders of Senate Bill 1 are putting a bailout of Chicago Public Schools ahead of their own local school districts.

The governor can exercise the veto power in four different ways: a total veto, an amendatory veto, an item veto and a reduction veto.