State Representative Tim Butler (R-Springfield) issued the following statement today in response to the Illinois House passing an omnibus energy package, Senate Bill 2408: “Well over a decade ago, my…

Illinois House Redistricting Committee Spokesperson State Representative Tim Butler (R-Springfield) released the following statement after this morning’s abysmal public hearing on redistricting: “This morning’s House Redistricting Committee hearing was an…

Speaking at a reconvened joint hearing of the House and Senate Redistricting Committees following the release of official block level census results from the U.S. Census Bureau, Rep. Tim Butler…

On August 26, 1818, the Illinois Territory ratified its first State Constitution as it took another step closer to becoming the 21st state in the Union. To commemorate this occasion,…

For more than a year, Governor Pritzker has cut out a co-equal branch of government and ruled the state with unilateral authority instead of working collaboratively to fight COVID-19 in…

This May was one of the busiest final few weeks of a spring legislative session we’ve seen recently. While it was great to be back in the Capitol on a…

Educators face continuous challenges in maintaining classroom order and discipline.  One method that school personnel are allowed to use is to remove a child from a school setting for a…

As a candidate for governor in 2018, JB Pritzker was asked the following question regarding redistricting: “Will you pledge as governor to veto any state legislative redistricting map proposal that is…

State Representative Tim Butler, joined by several members of the Illinois General Assembly, sent a letter to Governor JB Pritzker today calling on him to stop running the state by…