Gov. Bruce Rauner's campaign committee has hired Matt Besler, president of the Illinois Opportunity Project, as its chief adviser, the non-profit advocacy announced on Monday.
Rep. Lindsay Parkhurst (R-Kankakee), who was sworn into office in January, finally had a chance to celebrate the opening of her new district office in Kankakee this spring.
The budget battle in the Illinois Statehouse has allowed workers' compensation fraud to continue largely unchecked, the law firm Keefe, Campbell, Biery & Associates (KCBA) contends.
Memorial bricks are now being offered by the Kankakee County Police & Fire Memorial Committee to be placed in the memorial site on the Kankakee County Courthouse lawn, the county announced recently.
Rep. Thomas Bennett (R-Watseka) expressed his frustration with the legislative gridlock in Springfield on his website recently, pointing specifically to the lack of action on a bill to protect correction workers.
Iroquois County is taking away one of the most basic rights of American citizens, the Edgar County Watchdogs (ECW) charged on its Illinois Leaks website recently.
Gov. Bruce Rauner recently announced the release of a request for proposal (RFP) for the Smart Street Lighting for Illinois Municipalities statewide master contract.
The Edgar County Watchdogs recently reported on questions raised by the Illinois Department of Transportation's (IDOT) Division of Aeronautics Interim Director Steve Young regarding Kankakee Valley Airport Authority (KVAA) Commissioner Rende Langlois' qualifications for office.
The latest ad campaign by the Illinois Republican Party, dubbed 'Drop the Mike,' features a rap of Democratic Party chairman and House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago).
A campaign ad posted on incumbent state Rep. Katherine "Kate" Cloonen's (D-Kankakee) Facebook page alleging her GOP opponent, Lindsay Parkhurst, wants to eliminate the Social Security and Medicare programs has been deemed by Politifact to be an egregious lie.
The Kankakee Valley Airport Authority (KVAA) allegedly allowed a
conflict of interest when it awarded a contract to a commissioner on the KVAA board, John Kraft of the Edgar County Watchdogs' "Illinois Leaks" website said this week.