SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Recreational areas up and down the state will be sharing more than $1.5 million in federal grant money to repair bridges, build trails, purchase property and help pay for other projects.

In a news release, Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office says the projects are in eleven ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Republicans who gained ground in the Illinois General Assembly two years ago with Gov. Bruce Rauner’s financial assistance have a tougher go of it this year.

Rauner and his top backers showered more than $40 million on legislative races in 2016. Against a ...

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) — The Latest on Thursday’s debate between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker (all times local):

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Democratic candidate for governor J.B. Pritzker wouldn’t give details about his graduated income-tax plan in the final ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Pollution Control Board has refused to adopt a proposal by Gov. Bruce Rauner to relax limits on pollution from the state’s coal-fired power ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration says it needs up to two more months to produce a plan to provide three years’ back pay to union workers.

A lawyer for the Republican governor told the

CHICAGO (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner is now calling for the shutdown of a suburban Chicago plant suspected of emitting chemically polluted fumes that could elevate the risk of cancer.

Rauner on Tuesday joined a chorus of elected officials calling for the shutdown of a Sterigenics International ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hillary Clinton has campaigned for Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker during a stop in Chicago.

Clinton joined a round table discussion on leadership Monday with Pritzker, his running mate state Rep. Juliana Stratton and a group of high school ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois leaders of both parties are urging the U.S. Senate to delay a vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and ask the FBI to investigate a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed legislation that would permit experts to study the impact of supplemental feeding of wild deer.

The Republican on Tuesday

MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) — A man previously barred from a mayoral post in suburban Chicago has been sworn in as a result of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s intervention on his behalf.

Roger Agpawa was the top vote-getter in Markham’s 2017 mayoral race. However, an Illinois appeals court ruled in ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed an amendatory veto of a bill that imposes a prohibition on employers asking applicants their salary history.

The bill is aimed at eliminating the pay gap between male and female employees.

In his veto message Friday, Rauner ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois appellate court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed to stop a law that’ll expand Medicaid and state-employee group health insurance to cover abortions.

A three-judge panel of the Fourth District Appellate Court ruled unanimously that a Sangamon ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has declared a “harvest emergency” to help crop-hauling Illinois farmers compete with those in neighboring states.

The Republican’s declaration allows haulers to exceed road-weight limits in taking crops to market. The free permits are available ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A portion of Interstate 74 has been renamed in memory of an Illinois State Police officer killed in a car crash.

Trooper Ryan Albin was traveling with canine partner Biko on I-74 near Farmer City when his squad car collided with a box truck on June 28, 2017. The ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — College-bound students and their families now can consult an online program to determine the post-graduate economics of attending school in Illinois.

The site is called ILCollege2Career.com and allows students to ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has granted eight requests for clemency and denied 85 other petitions.

Rauner’s office announced the clemencies Friday. They continue the Republican’s practice of approving requests at a far lower rate than his predecessor, Democratic Gov. Pat ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois will use the $108 million it got from the government’s Volkswagen emissions scandal settlement to improve air quality, mostly by replacing old diesel engines with more environmentally friendly options.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen reached ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Doctors in Illinois can now prescribe marijuana as a painkiller thanks to a new law intended to counter a growing opioid abuse epidemic.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the bill into law Tuesday ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — In a story Aug. 26 about a new state law, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a law requiring cat owners to have their pets vaccinated for rabies with regular updates from the age of four months. The General Assembly changed the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a law requiring quarterly reports on the health of veterans under state care after a Legionnaires’ disease crisis at a state-run veterans’ home.

The Republican took the action Monday. It requires the Department of Veterans’ Affairs

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed a bill that would have raised the minimum salary for full-time public school teachers $40,000 within five years.

Legislators approved the bill in May that would have increased the minimum full-time teacher pay, saying it would ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner calls him “one of the youngest, most effective lobbyists” in Illinois.

Hunter Martin’s two-year lobbying effort ended this week when the Republican governor signed a law requiring insurance companies to

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed legislation that bars tobacco sales to those under age 21.

In a Friday statement, Rauner said raising the minimum age to buy tobacco from 18 would “push residents to buy tobacco products from non-licensed vendors or in ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Marijuana growers across Illinois are expanding, despite years of lower-than-expected demand in the state’s medical cannabis pilot program.

The facilities expect more residents to gain access to the drug through a bill awaiting a decision by Gov. Bruce Rauner, the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has vetoed legislation that would have boosted the maximum damage award allowed survivors of veterans who died of Legionnaire’s disease at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy.

The legislation would have increased from $100,000 to $2 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois State Board of Elections has cleared a Chicago mayoral candidate who handed out more than $200,000 to people at a church.

The board said Friday that Willie Wilson didn’t violate election laws when he distributed cash and checks at a South Side church in July. ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed five laws expanding mental health and addiction-treatment services and Medicaid coverage of them.

Advocates say the Republican’s action Wednesday at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield strengthens the attack on the opioid crisis and ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Illinois is creating a new merit-based scholarship aimed at getting more high school graduates to attend in-state colleges and universities.

The AIM HIGH grant pilot program will provide at least $50 million in financial aid. The state is providing $25 million in the ...

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — Illinois corrections officials have announced construction will begin next spring on a 200-bed inpatient mental health and medical facility.

The Joliet Treatment Center will be 180,000 square feet (16,700 square meters). Officials announced Tuesday it will cost $150 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a law that gives families of extremely ill children more flexibility in health care.

The Republican’s action Monday affects children considered ”