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The Government of Illinois, under the State of Illinois Constitution, has three branches of government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.The State's executive branch is split into several statewide elected offices, with the Governor as chief executive and head of state, and has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions.
The governor is also the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. Since becoming a state in 1818, 43 people have served as governor of Illinois; before statehood, it had only one territorial governor, Ninian Edwards. The longest-serving governor was James R. Thompson, who was elected to four terms lasting 14 years, from 1977 to 1991.
The Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives is seventh (behind the Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, and President of the Senate, respectively) in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Illinois. [1] [2]
The Illinois state government has numerous departments, but the so-called code departments provide most of the state's services. [1] [2] Code departments.
Illinois Republican state Rep. Brad Halbrook has announced the formation of the Illinois Government Efficiency Caucus. Halbrook said the goal is to have a bipartisan effort to find ways to reduce ...
The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly.The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The House under the current constitution as amended in 1980 consists of 118 representatives elected from individual legislative districts for two-year terms with no limits; redistricted every 10 years, based on the 2010 U.S. census ...
Dozens more victims have come forward claiming they were sexually assaulted while in juvenile correction centers run by the state of Illinois and Cook County. 100+ new child sex abuse lawsuits ...
The governor of Illinois is the head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by popular suffrage of residents of the state.