Illinois House of Representatives

Illinois lawmakers will begin their spring session working remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Illinois House spent $187,000 to rent out Springfield’s downtown convention center last week due to fears about conducting business at the Capitol during the coronavirus pandemic, according to documents disclosed to The Associated Press. Lawmakers in the House have now spent a total of about $330,000 in taxpayer money to rent the center for less than two weeks during the...

It’s been quite a whirlwind for the new Illinois Speaker of the House Chris Welch, as he’s received more than one thousand text messages from all over the country as well-wishers congratulate the state legislature’s first-ever Black Speaker. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Eddie Lee Jackson Sr., a former state legislator, educator and city council member from East St. Louis, has died at age 71.

At least 16 Democrats elected to serve in the Illinois House beginning in January have said they will not back Speaker Michael Madigan after being implicated in multiple court filings alleging a bribery scheme with ComEd that lasted for nearly a decade. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

A special committee in the Illinois House of Representatives tasked with investigating a deferred prosecution agreement that implicated powerful Speaker Michael Madigan in an alleged bribery scheme with ComEd will meet Tuesday afternoon, with officials from the state’s largest utility set to testify.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, in Friday letter, said he won’t testify before a special committee looking into his conduct in connection with a utility’s alleged bribery scheme designed to curry favor with the Democrat.

A special committee in the Illinois House of Representatives tasked with investigating a deferred prosecution agreement that implicated powerful Speaker Michael Madigan in an alleged bribery scheme with ComEd will meet for the first time on Thursday.

Republicans in the Illinois House of Representatives on Monday moved to create a special committee to investigate a deferred prosecution agreement that implicated powerful Speaker Michael Madigan in an alleged bribery scheme with ComEd that prosecutors say lasted nearly a decade.

Republicans in the Illinois House of Representatives on Monday moved to create a special committee to investigate a deferred prosecution agreement that implicated powerful Speaker Michael Madigan in an alleged bribery scheme with ComEd that prosecutors say lasted nearly a decade. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has all the details.

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan said Thursday he has “no plans to resign” as calls for him to step down continue to grow after he was implicated in a federal court filing alleging a bribery scheme with ComEd that lasted nearly a decade.

Four Democratic Illinois lawmakers told NBC 5 Thursday that House Speaker Michael Madigan contacted them individually to ask if he should step down, as calls for him to resign continue to grow after he was implicated in a federal court filing alleging a bribery scheme with ComEd that lasted nearly a decade.

ComEd will pay $200 million as part of an agreement to resolve a federal criminal investigation into a bribery scheme in which investigators say the utility company admitted to arranging jobs and payments for associates of an elected official, referred to only as “Public Official A,” for nearly a decade, prosecutors announced Friday. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.

A federal judge in Chicago begins two days of hearings to learn what members of the public think about a draft plan for reforming city police under court supervision.

The House has soundly rejected a ban on gun modifications known as “bump stocks” that speed firing and were used in the Las Vegas massacre.

Gun control advocates were dealt a defeat on Thursday as the Illinois House defeated a bill that would have prohibited the sale of “bump stocks.” NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the latest. 

Lawmakers adjourned Wednesday night, on the final day of the Illinois spring legislative session, once again failing to end the state’s historic budget stalemate, leaving thousands of Illinois residents in a financial crisis.

Illinois lawmakers adjourned Wednesday night once again failing to end the state’s historic budget stalemate, leaving thousands of residents in a financial crisis. Emily Florez reports.

Wednesday marks both the final day of the Illinois spring legislative session, as well as the state’s 700th day without a budget – and there is no deal in sight.