term limits

Illinois' Lt. Governor Evelyn Sanguinetti joined the WROK Morning Show on Friday morning to kick around a couple of hot-button issues.

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network Almost a year into his term, and a day after his much-ballyhooed budget meeting with the four legislative leaders, Gov. Bruce Rauner shared a realization with reporters. “We're in this strange place,” he said, “where the legislature just wanted to pass a big spending plan and said, Governor, okay, you decide how to fix it, we'll tell you how much we want to spen

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network Some state lawmakers who are new to Springfield say there ought to be term limits. First-term Republicans don't like the fact that those who've been there longer, and who are in the majority party, get to call the shots...

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network Illinois Republicans sense momentum for term limits. State Rep. Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove) is running a bill – a proposed constitutional amendment – to limit service in each chamber of the General Assembly to 10 years and as a statewide constitutional officer to eight years...

CHICAGO (AP) — Republican gubernatorial bidder Bruce Rauner (ROW'-nur) is directing his legal team to appeal an Illinois appeals court ruling that a term limits question cannot appear on the November ballot. Rauner, a Winnetka businessman, made the decision shortly after the Chicago-based 1st District Court of Appeals issued its decision Wednesday...

CHICAGO (AP) — A group led by Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner will present oral arguments in its ongoing court battle to get a term limits measure on the November ballot. The Committee for Legislative Reform and Term Limits ran a signature-driven effort to limit lawmakers to eight years in office and change the size of the Illinois House and Senate, among other things...

CHICAGO (AP) — A group pushing for lawmaker term limits has filed a court appeal to get their question on November's ballot. The Committee for Legislative Reform and Term Limits filed a motion Tuesday with Illinois' First District Appellate Court asking it to reverse a June Cook County Circuit Court ruling...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Bruce Rauner is holding out hope that term limits will be on ballot come November. The Illinois Supreme Court turned down a request for a direct appeal of a circuit court’s decision that the referendum didn’t meet constitutional requirements...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court won't review a lower court ruling barring a question on lawmaker term limits from appearing on November's ballot. The court denied Thursday the Committee for Legislative Reform and Term Limits' appeal of a June 27 Cook County circuit court ruling...

If it’s Monday it means I need to shave and I have to wear pants. Why? Because it’s TV Day, when I get to join our friends at Eyewitness News! This week Matt, Candice, and I discussed the severe weather that rolled through Sunday night/Monday morning and the future (or lack thereof) of the term limit and independent map ballot proposals...