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…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Pat Quinn’s Illinois Reform Commission this morning formally recommended a series of sweeping changes in the way the scandal-wracked state does business, including campaign contribution limits, an end to gerrymandering on congression and legislative districts, and term…

UPDATE (11:18 a.m.) Quinn talked just now with reporters outside the hearing about his call for campaign finance limits. I asked how he would address the scenario (outlined below) of candidates like his potential rival, Lisa Madigan, having raised gobs…

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CHICAGO - Illinois law doesn’t give state-level prosecutors enough power to go after political corruption, which is why the federal government has to keep stepping in, members of the Illinois Reform Commission said at the opening of today’s hearing in…