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07/19/11 Gov. Pat Quinn is spending the week and Israel, in the interest of further developing a relationship for Illinois there.
07/19/11 Democratic Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says he will make good on a bet he made with Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over the Packers-Bears NFC championship game six months ago.
07/16/11 The opening this week of the Rivers Casino has created a celebratory mood in Des Plaines, but a Daily Herald editorial warns that celebration may be short-lived unless Gov. Pat Quinn reins in the state's expansive gaming plans.
07/16/11 This Thursday, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has officially received the final report from the Elgin-O'Hare Bypass advisory council regarding extending the Elgin-O'Hare expressway further east and creating a western bypass around O'Hare International Airport on the far northwest side of the city.
07/16/11 Gov. Pat Quinn is in Utah this weekend for a meeting of the National Governors Association.
07/15/11 SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Pat Quinn is heading to Israel next week for what his aides are describing as an educational mission.
07/14/11 SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Pat Quinn is heading to Israel next week for what his aides are describing as an educational mission.
07/14/11 A major change for Illinois' youth prisons is on hold. Gov. Pat Quinn last year pushed to merge the Department of Juvenile Justice into another agency, the Department of Children and Family Services. Quinn said it would lead to more treatment for incarcerated youth, though some lawmakers and a public employee union resisted the move. And, like many big ideas, the merger fell by the wayside. But ...
07/13/11 Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a major piece of environmental and job creation legislation today that will create 1,500 jobs in the state and create the state's first coal gasification plant, which will drastically lower carbon emissions.
07/13/11 Illinois' governor on Wednesday is paving the way for the state to get its first coal-to-gas plant in Chicago. The $3 billion plant is set to be built on a former industrial site on the city's southeast side. The so-called "coal gasification" plant will turn Illinois coal and refinery waste into a natural gas substitute, without having to burn the coal. Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn originally ...
07/13/11 DECATUR - A line of correctional officers and other union workers picketed the Decatur Correctional Center on Tuesday to protest a move by Gov. Pat Quinn to deny them raises he had previously promised.
07/12/11 MOUNT STERLING, Ill. -- State employees and their supporters in Brown County were among the union members throughout Illinois who picketed state facilities Tuesday in protest of Gov. Pat Quinn's decision to cancel their raises for fiscal 2012.
07/12/11 ALTON - Union members in Alton joined counterparts throughout Illinois on Tuesday to demonstrate contempt for Gov. Pat Quinn's idea to cancel 2 percent raises in July for unionized state workers.
07/12/11 Two more unions sued the state of Illinois Tuesday over Gov. Pat Quinn's decision to suspend scheduled pay raises for some state workers.
07/11/11 Six Southland communities will share $6.6 million in federal money to buy and rehab foreclosed homes and make other improvements, Gov. Pat Quinn said Monday during a stop in Tinley Park.The money is part of the $169 million in federal disaster relief money the state got after the remnants of Hurricane Ike in 2008 spawned flooding in Illinois. Some of the money being given to local communities ...
07/11/11 Ill. Gov. Pat Quinn is defending the state's civil union law in a dispute with a Catholic adoption agency. State officials say they won't renew foster care or adoption contracts with Catholic Charities. The organization has received state money in the past, but Catholic Charities has said it would not comply with the new civil unions law signed by Quinn. Quinn said the law granting gay couples ...
07/11/11 The Illinois Supreme Court is expected to decide today the constitutionality of Gov. Pat Quinn's showcase $31 billion public works program, with an adverse ruling likely to throw a state in financial turmoil into even deeper disarray.
07/11/11 The state Supreme Court should rule today the constitutionality of Gov. Pat Quinn's $31 billion public works program.
07/11/11 The Illinois budget Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law last week may have eliminated $52 million in transportation payments to schools, but District 205 is ready for it. Assistant Superintendent for Finance and Operations Guy Cahill said Friday he has been anticipating the cuts since February and planned accordingly in preparing the tentative 2011-12 budget. He will present the budget at the ...
07/10/11 DEANNA BELLANDI Associated Press CHICAGO Like a house of cards, the massive expansion proposed for Illinois' gambling industry was built piece by piece, slot machine by slot machine, and vote by vote before the measure won its unprecedented approval in the legislature this spring. That is the summer's quandary for Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. The governor initially trash talked the sheer size of the ...
07/09/11 A major state employee union has filed a federal lawsuit over Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's decision to cancel raises for thousands of workers. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed the suit Friday in Springfield. | 
