State Representative CD Davidsmeyer (R-Jacksonville) has joined with other downstate Republicans and filed legislation (House Bill 1787) that will prevent IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D-Chicago) from blocking state employees…

By Brian Robbins, State Capitol Bureau Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer, R-Jacksonville, views the maneuver of Madigan, daughter of Democratic House Speaker Mike Madigan, as purely political. “I thought we were past…

By Zac Coffman on January 27 at 12:40pm Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a new lawsuit that would stop paychecks for state employees. Yesterday Madigan filed a motion…

From ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK The new class of state legislators will be sworn in next week and one of the first orders of business is who will lead each chamber….

Davidsmeyer Offers a Fiscal Charter By Gary Scott A local state representative has offered what he calls a taxpayer’s fiscal charter to those frustrated by the lack of a state…

IL State Fair Initiates Survey to Improve Future Fairs Attendance at the Springfield, Illinois 2016 State Fair dropped by more than 13% on a year-to-year basis. While severe weather events…

Labor and management agree on unemployment insurance relief for steelworkers. Affected could be up to 2,000 workers at the Granite City Works. The mill complex makes hot-rolled sheet steel, which…

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White announced a program to retire the State’s current motor vehicle plate design for individual motor vehicles (such as cars and light trucks).  Designs for…

U.S. 67 near Jacksonville has been formally designated the Dick Rawlings Memorial Highway. The Illinois General Assembly and Illinois Department of Transportation officially named the highway after the Morgan County…

Rep. Davidsmeyer and other House Republicans sent a letter to Governor Bruce Rauner and Roberta Lynch, AFSCME’s Executive Director, requesting both sides to return to the table for thoughtful, good-faith…