The newest polls show Rauner trailing JB Pritzker by 17 points. If that holds up, he'll suffer the worst defeat ever by an incumbent Illinois governor. Read more
A bill signed this week could increase the number of individuals in court-ordered programs by 50 percent — and drastically reduce Illinois's state prison population. Read more
It wasn't quite a party fit for a billionaire, but a billionaire doesn't need canapes to pack a ballroom with boldface names, especially when he's the frontrunner for governor. Read more
Jeanne Ives pushed the incumbent to the brink last night. Rauner won with an eerily similar margin to his 2014 primary victory, but he lost most of the collar counties and saw his margin in Cook County cut by more than half. Read more
From the governor to a seven-term Democratic House member to the powerful Cook County Assessor to the president of Cook County itself, today brings a lot of March madness. Read more
As Plan Bs go, it's not bad—a healthy percentage of the city's workforce consists of Illinois residents, so the state could get a few thousand jobs for its residents at presumably zero cost. Read more
The CEO of the influential Illinois Policy Institute, whose employees were recruited en masse for governor's office positions, sits down to talk about pensions, Madigan, and who controls Springfield. Read more
