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A plan to expand gambling is still being negotiated and it's unclear if lawmakers will take it up, with just hours left in the session to deal with other major issues.

Who besides Gutierrez and Preckinckle did you think could challenge the mayor? Where, exactly, is Rubio on immigration? What's happened in Venezuela since the Aprl elections? How many times hs the House repealed Obamacare? It's all here. 

As Illinois lawmakers prepare Friday for their final day of the Spring session, the issue most say should be top priority received a blow Thursday evening.

Advocates say prostitution felonies unfairly target women.

Illinois' Firearm Owners Identification card program is supposed to keep guns away from felons and the mentally ill. But thousands of revoked FOID cards are unaccounted for, and their owners could still buy guns and ammunition.

A Texas transplant reflects on her own biases and examines what it means to be a "real" Chicagoan. 

Obama will headline a fundraiser Wednesday for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee at the home of two longtime supporters.