Today is a sad day in Illinois. It’s a day in which I take no joy. Today my thoughts are with the people of my district and across this state….
If there is one thing that all conservatives agree on, its that the government spends too much money. In Illinois, years of unbalanced budgets have made Illinois the least fiscally…
On Wednesday, the Illinois House of Representatives adopted a resolution designating the section of Illinois Route 78 from Canton to Farmington as the “Sgt. Douglas Riney Memorial Highway”. The resolution…
“I am disappointed to learn about Caterpillar’s decision to relocate its Global Headquarters from Peoria to Chicago. Undoubtedly, the impact of this transition will be significant, presenting the Central Illinois…
State Representative Mike Unes (R-East Peoria) was appointed today to serve as an Assistant Minority Leader for the 100th General Assembly. There are only six positions of this kind that…
Rep. Mike Unes (R-East Peoria) led the Illinois House of Representatives Wednesday in a tribute to Tazewell County Sheriff’s Deputy Craig Whisenand, who lost his life in the line of…
Unfortunately, Speaker Madigan pushed through a self-admittedly, unbalanced state budget today. It spends billions of dollars more than is anticipated to be coming into state coffers. Unfortunately, this is nothing…
Unfortunately, the games continued in Springfield yesterday. Speaker Madigan’s Supermajority called Budget Votes on the House Floor after filing a budget only hours earlier. No one from the public, human…
With very little notice, legislators were notified Speaker Madigan was convening a ‘Committee of the Whole’ on Tuesday regarding Worker’s Compensation. The witness list of who would be testifying was…