UPDATE: 4:50 p.m. : The Cook County judge has issue the restraining order. The law is suspended once again.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The story out of Chicago today — that the state’s 1995 parental notification law on abortion will start…

Virgina Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell

WASHINGTON — Wednesday mornings after off-year elections always bring over-generalizations.

But the results of Tuesday’s elections — in which the GOP won governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey and Democrats captured a House seat in New York — appeared to…

Ryan

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - After seven years out of state politics, former Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan formally announced his campaign for governor outside the state Capitol a short time ago–and promptly reminded us that the debris from impeached Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s…

UPDATE, 1:30 p.m. — The Senate just now gave final passage to the bill, as expected. It passed on a partisan 36-22 vote. Gov. Pat Quinn is expected to sign it.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Senate today is expected to…

Madigan

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois House tonight passed a bill to impose the first political contribution limits in the state’s history. House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, personally presented the measure to the floor.

But critics continue to blast the bill for…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration and lawmakers have reached a tentative agreement today to revive a controversial “STAR bonds” tax-incentive plan, targeting it more specifically to attracting a major entertainment center to the Glen Carbon area and providing payments…

Candidates wait in the rain to file Monday in Springfield

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - As the Post-Dispatch reported today, hundreds of politicians and political wannabes filed nominating petitions yesterday to get on the Feb. 2 primary election ballot.

It was the first day…

Ryan

Topinka

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Among the many (many, many) candidates filing in the next week to run for statewide office in the Feb. 2 Illinois primaries are two familiar faces whose campaign slogans might aptly be something like, “I told you…

 (Related post: Topinka, Jim Ryan among expected filers)

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Today is the first day of candidate filing for Illinois’ Feb. 2 primary election, a bi-annual Springfield ritual that has candidates or their representatives (usually the latter) lining up in…

Quinn

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. Pat Quinn today is opening his 2010 election campaign with a five-point plan  for job creation that includes more public works programs, “green” energy development and a renewed emphasis on tourism.

“We’ve got to be welcoming to the…