By Benjamin Yount, Stephanie Fryer and Anthony Brino | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — While the Republican presidential candidates are in New Hampshire this weekend, their surrogates are trying their best to bring the one-upmanship of the race to Illinois. Friday was the last day for the 2012 GOP presidential campaigns to file their delegates with [...]

  By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News   SPRINGFIELD — A controversial $350-million tax relief bill targeting businesses and households underwent a transformation, not so much in content, but in style.

By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers are moving forward with legislation to create an online health insurance exchange despite not knowing who will pay its nearly $89 million price tag.

By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ most competitive, and perhaps most telling, race for Congress is far from Chicago. The 12th Congressional District, which runs along the Mississippi River from Metro East to the southernmost tip of the state, is now at the center of attention for Republicans and Democrats. The [...]

By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — The soybeans are still standing in Dan Farney's fields in Tazewell County, but they won't be for long.

By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD  — Almost no one wants the state running Illinois’ new health-care exchanges. Health-care advocates, unions, doctors’ groups and business people testified in unison this week before the Legislature’s rule-making body, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability that the state should have a limited role in running [...]