Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch’s informal rule requiring support from 75% of his Democratic members before allowing floor ...

The latest formal complaint includes 10 violations and may lead to the processor losing its cannabis business license.

The legislation passed and sent to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk during the General Assembly’s brief lame-duck session was ...

The flourishing gray market for intoxicating hemp products like Delta-8 is harming the legal cannabis market while ...

Illinois’ new batch of lawmakers will face a number of challenges in 2025. Chief among them is a projected $3.2 billion budget deficit.

A day after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered strong criticism of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s relationships in ...

An already contentious relationship still can be salvaged if a mayor and governor who need each other to solve their ...

The failure of a little-noticed bill to regulate hemp has much bigger implications as a new Legislature is sworn in.

But the bill also created rifts within the House Democratic caucus. According to several sources, the hemp regulation bill was the focus of a three-hour closed-door caucus meeting Monday that some ...

A bill that would have imposed regulations on new types of intoxicating substances derived from hemp stalled in the Illinois ...