Update: On Nov. 15, AP News officially declared that Amendment 1 in Illinois, the Workers’ Rights Amendment, passed and will be added to the state’s constitution. As companies like Starbucks and ...

A bipartisan push to let voters amend the Illinois Constitution to reduce politics in drawing state legislative maps has been suspended, with organizers saying the timing is "not ripe" amid a ...

Fifty words, added to the Illinois Constitution as an amendment, could be what helps save the state from an inevitable financial collapse in years to come. “Nothing in this Constitution or in any law ...

Illinois voters may get the opportunity to decide if elected officials in the state should have a term limit. An amendment to the Illinois Constitution would put a three-term limit on members of the ...

The Illinois State Constitution has been the source of arguments over school funding in Illinois for decades. Proponents of increased state funding of public education base their position on language ...

Illinois unions are feeling bullish at the prospect that a ballot amendment this November could codify their political power in the state constitution. They are also hoping that this could be a ...

Illinois voters will be asked on the Nov. 8 ballot whether they want to amend the state constitution to enshrine the rights of workers to organize and collectively bargain as a constitutional right.

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