The flourishing gray market for intoxicating hemp products like Delta-8 is harming the legal cannabis market while ...

Gov. JB Pritzker waved off concerns that a fiery House Democratic caucus meeting that tanked one of his prized legislative ...

Illinois’ new batch of lawmakers will face a number of challenges in 2025. Chief among them is a projected $3.2 billion budget deficit.

A day after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered strong criticism of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s relationships in ...

An already contentious relationship still can be salvaged if a mayor and governor who need each other to solve their ...

It has been an eventful week for Pritzker. A bill regulating hemp products that the governor backed failed to advance amid in-fighting among Illinois Democrats, resulting in Pritzker criticizing the ...

The failure of a little-noticed bill to regulate hemp has much bigger implications as a new Legislature is sworn in.

But the bill also created rifts within the House Democratic caucus. According to several sources, the hemp regulation bill was the focus of a three-hour closed-door caucus meeting Monday that some ...

The legislation passed and sent to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk during the General Assembly’s brief lame-duck session was ...

Chicago’s kids are ending up in hospitals after ingesting synthetic THC in the form of gummies. Their mayor just kept that ...