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Mark Bilek, senior director of communications for the Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA), fears that the trickle-down effect from a new Illinois law that caps trade-in tax credits on most motor vehicles at $10,000 could have devastating consequences for the industry.

The former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Thomas Homan, told a national TV audience Monday that his recent verbal altercation with U.S. Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D-Chicago) during a House Oversight Committee Hearing could have been even worse than it was.

Even if Illinois state House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) used "dirty tricks" to fend off 2016 primary challenger Jason Gonzales, the strategy allegedly employed was not illegal, according to a re​cent court filing.

Former Illinois Sens. Michael Noland (D-Elgin) and James Clayborne (D-East St. Louis) filed a lawsuit against the state which, if successful, will increase state lawmakers’ salaries to more than $81,000 by 2020 to rank Illinois' legislative salaries as the nation’s fourth-highest.

You are invited to two property tax workshops to lean how to file an appeal with the Cook County Board of Review.

Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance (CAFHA) in partnership with project lead, Enterprise Community Partners, is working with several local governments and public housing authorities within Cook County to conduct a Cook County Regional Assessment of Fair Housing (AFH).

House Appropriations-Public Safety and Appropriations-Higher Education committees met to conduct a joint hearing on censorship of reading materials in Illinois Correctional Facilities.

Since Illinois has become the 11th state to legalize recreational marijuana, national labor lawyer and legal analyst Michelle Lee Flores suggests the Prairie State began to prepare for employment law issues.

Democrats depend most on men to show up at the polls in City of Chicago Ward 11 Precinct 2, City of Chicago Ward 44 Precinct 34 and City of Chicago Ward 46 Precinct 2 in Chicago.

Candidates depend most on men to show up at the polls in City of Chicago Ward 11 Precinct 2, City of Chicago Ward 48 Precinct 9 and City of Chicago Ward 28 Precinct 29 in Illinois.

The debt load of every taxpayer in Chicago continues to swell as lawmakers across the city have shown no progress in trimming the massive deficits that have led a fiscal watchdog group to give the city a failing grade in its latest annual financial report.

The City of Chicago is more than $34 billion in debt, with each taxpayer theoretically on the hook for more than $38,000, according to a Truth in Accounting (TIA) annual report on the city's fiscal crisis.

A Republican Illinois House representative from the 93rd District earlier this week renewed her call for fair maps and pushed support for an independent map-drawing petition following a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear gerrymander cases.

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) will no longer allow parking at its Emergency Traffic Patrol (ETP) lot near Guaranteed Rate Field for White Sox games after a state ethics report found the practice violated numerous policies.

Chicago conservative activist Tim Jones has a simple, straightforward philosophy when it comes to the state’s system of taxation.

Document Destruction with Midway Moving will bring a Mobile Shredding Truck to shred any of your unwanted documents.

Lace up your shoes: There’s a new pink in town.

State Representative La Shawn K. Ford, D-Chicago, calls on Governor JB Pritzker to eliminate lead poisoning in Chicago’s water supply and address water supply issues in other areas of the state.

Join Rep. Evans for a discussion on legislative updates and an end of session overview.