The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed an earlier decision keeping the legislative mapmaking process in political hands.

Illinois politicians love to be involved in choosing their voters, especially Madigan.

Headlines in June show why Chicago is considered one of the most corrupt cities in the world.

How village officials used public money to pad the pockets of one of the most successful artists of all time, and tried to keep it a secret.

The village of Tinley Park has doubled-down on its investment in a privately managed restaurant within the 80th Avenue Metra station, voting this month to give $57,000 to Parmesans Station for a new pizza oven, according to the Chicago Tribune. In 2012, the village fronted a $600,000 investment for the restaurant space to complement the...

The controversy surrounding Chicago’s red-light camera program just got even more interesting. A judge revealed he is dismissing tickets by the fistful while former key players in the program have been indicted on federal bribery charges. Less than two weeks after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that the city will be reviewing more than 16,000...

The bad news keeps piling up for Illinoisans. Illinois Policy’s “corruption watch” blog series hit a new high in the month of July with nearly 100 corruption-related stories. Chicago and Springfield are the two cities most synonymous with the state’s corruption woes. Unsurprisingly, both cities dominated headlines with the top two corruption stories of the...

by Mark Cavers On Monday, the Chicago Tribune ran a story on the thousands of taxing districts and government bodies that are scattered across Illinois: “Illinois has the most units of government in the nation, and the Tribune acquired and combed through a list of each one — nearly 8,500 by the state comptroller’s count, from well-known...