A millionaires tax has helped other states tackle big problems. It helped Massachusetts provide free lunch for all its public ...

Whew! Gov. Pat Quinn's new Illinois budget came along in the nick of time, just hours after the state's fiscal year began July 1 and a day before Quinn and the other state politicians headed out ...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn acknowledges the applause after signing the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act into law, making Illinois the 16th state in the nation to embrace full marriage ...

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn addresses the crowd believing he has won the gubernatorial race over Republican Bill Brady in the midterm election Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010, in Chicago.

Former Gov. Pat Quinn (front left) and Monica Walker show the Rev. Joseph Chamblain a note written in 2011 by Robert Prevost, now better known as Pope Leo XIV, outside Assumption Church, 323 W ...

UPDATED: CHICAGO — Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that if he’s made governor, he may opt to appoint President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate replacement rather than wait for a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and businessman Bruce Rauner focused on African American voters during a fiery debate Tuesday night. The election is three weeks from Tuesday.

The multi-year transportation program builds upon the success of Governor Quinn’s $31 billion Illinois Jobs Now! program, which is supporting more than 400,000 jobs over six years.

SPRINGFIELD — A proposed ban on teen tanning is on its way to Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk. In action Monday, the Illinois Senate voted 34-12 to prohibit minors under age 18 from using commercial ...

The last person to ascend from the lieutenant governor position to the governor’s mansion was former Gov. Pat Quinn in 2009, after then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached and removed from office.

As political support for privatizing the proposed Illiana Expressway grows in Indiana, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has offered his first broad endorsement of having the 30-mile highway built and run ...