Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith defends controversial comments on Three-Fifths Compromise at heated town hall meeting in Zionsville.

With the Illinois state legislative session ended, bills will start crossing the governor’s desk, some containing tax hikes, ...

Lawmakers still have time to avert a $771 million fiscal cliff. But transit agencies like the CTA will start planning now for ...

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A significant overhaul of public transit in the Chicago area to address a looming fiscal cliff stalled in the House over the weekend.

An Indiana debate over history and power is growing. Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith recently defended the Three-Fifths Compromise in a social media video. The compromise counted enslaved people as three ...

This letter serves as a rebuttal of one in which Lt. Gov. Beckwith was defended for his Three-Fifths Compromise remarks. The author claims the compromise was not to protect slavery, but to save ...

Some state Republicans, who are in the minority in both chambers of the statehouse, lobbed criticism at the quick nature of ...