Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder wants the Springfield City Council to pass an emergency resolution asking the Illinois General Assembly to include Springfield if it gives new locations authorization to have casinos.

Oversight of publicly funded care for more than 6,000 Illinoisans with developmental disabilities in group homes and other settings will be reduced and disrupted, putting clients' physical and emotional health at risk, if a new system expanding service regions on July 1 isn't blocked.

Smokers could get tickets for lighting up in a car with minors under a bill sent to the full Illinois Senate Tuesday.

A group of Carlinville High School seniors managed to do something Wednesday that lawmakers often fail to do during a legislative session: bring Democrats and Republicans together.