The Invest in Kids program offers a 75% income tax credit to individual and businesses that donate part of their incomes to qualified scholarship granting organizations. Eligible qualified scholarship granting…

This year’s session will convene with legislators gathering in Springfield on Tuesday, January 28. With brief recesses for the March primary election and for the April Easter-Passover holiday season, lawmakers…

Leader Durkin called for an immediate criminal investigation following the disclosure that a powerful former lobbyist with close ties to House Speaker Michael Madigan had sent an email to top…

Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) joined fellow House Republican members at a press conference this morning to discuss the Democrat failure to reduce sky high property taxes…

On January 1st, more than 200 new laws will go into effect in Illinois. Among them are laws that provide additional protections for victims of sexual assault, greater access to…

Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) along with members of the House Republican caucus announced a sweeping ethics reform package this morning to address unacceptable…

House Bill 3885 would allow local home rule communities the ability to ban the use of ethylene oxide so that they can protect themselves when higher authorities won’t.

Even with the news that Sterigenics is shutting down, our fight over ethylene oxide is not over. While the Matt Haller Act, which became law in June, enacted the strongest restrictions…

House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) released the following statement on the news of Sterigenics not re-opening their Willowbrook facility…

House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) released the following statement on the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to approve the Sterigenics construction permit application: “The IEPA’s approval of the…