Reform might end scenes like this: Rod Blagojevich after his arrest on Dec. 9. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images North America)

Illinois lawmakers now have 33 days to put up or shut up. On Tuesday, the Illinois Reform Commission submitted…

President George W. Bush has protected three Pacific Ocean areas as marine national monument areas Tuesday. The three areas, a combined almost 200,000 square miles, are:

• Rose Atoll, a pink coral near American Samoa.

• The Marianas Marine National Monument, the three…

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich

Two years ago, as this page was debating the editorial endorsement for governor, and the page was leaning toward Rod Blagojevich, one writer told another writer, “You’re going to endorse someone who will be indicted before his…

One year after beginning a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence for racketeering and fraud, former Illinois Gov. George Ryan still hasn’t admitted to or apologized for the systematic corruption that marked his single term as governor and his two terms as secretary of…

Illinois death chamber under construction at Tamm prison (1998)

A few freewheeling criminal defense lawyers and experts-for-hire appear to be living large on the public dime in Illinois. That’s nothing new, but the fact that they’re capitalizing on capital punishment is disturbing.

Kevin…

Illinois Auditor General William Holland has been poking his nose into Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s Office of Management and the Budget. What he found smells distinctly fishy.

Mr. Holland reported last week that the OMB had issued no-bid contracts, awarded contracts to…