Illinois Statehouse

Other projects are still on the table as advocates, industry groups debate regulatory reform

Illinois' veto session runs from Oct. 24 to 26 and Nov. 7 to 9 in Springfield. Lawmakers will have a full agenda, including a handful of vetoes from Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

The Illinois bill was named for Chicago domestic violence victim allegedly shot and killed by husband this summer

The Safe Patients Limit Act would cap the number of patients per registered nurse in Illinois.

Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch, D-Hillsdale, says he hopes to pass the bill in the upcoming veto session.

Tim Mapes, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's chief of staff, was convicted of lying to a grand jury investigating Madigan and his inner circle.

The Connecticut-based National Shooting Sports Foundation filed the suit in federal court in East St. Louis on Monday, just two days after Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the bill into law.

Lawmakers are devising the measure after WBEZ obtained footage of a northern Illinois cop leading a 15-year-old to falsely confess to a shooting.

Under the new Illinois law, gun dealers and manufacturers can be sued — either by the state or private individuals — for marketing firearms, accessories and related products in a way that promotes illegal paramilitary or private militia activity in the state.

A high school student from Normal helped pass an Illinois law to protect the money young vloggers and so-called "kidfluencers" can make online.