The City Council will hold a hearing this week to begin conversations on how Chicago can regulate and tax hemp products.

He’s feeling left a little high and dry. Reeling from a recent defeat on hemp legislation, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker lashed out at his fellow Democrat, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson who had publicly ...

State lawmakers who stood in the way of recent legislation that would've regulated hemp products have received significant ...

The Land of Lincoln still isn't at the point where people can feel fully confident that lawmakers aren't making decisions ...

Many in the hemp industry said not everyone in the hemp space uses deceitful and dangerous practices, and that Gov. J.B.

Illinois governor JB Pritzker gets dealt a loss by the mayor of Chicago. And Iowa could get tough on cell phones. Host Jim Niedelman covers those issues in a conversation with Iowa Republican Party ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- A bill that would have imposed regulations on new types of intoxicating substances derived from hemp stalled in the Illinois House Tuesday, dealing a political setback to Gov.

The mayor sees intoxicating hemp as a business ripe for new taxes; the state legislation Pritzker supported effectively would have banned these potent synthetic THC offerings such as delta-8 to ...

Governor JB Pritzker was fired up Tuesday over a bill that stalled in the House of Representatives just 24 hours prior. The bill — which was designed to license, tax and regulate hemp-derived ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been a vocal opponent of the hemp bill, but Pritzker doesn’t believe he was the one to kill the measure. “My impression is he didn’t have much to do ...

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

JB Pritzker to impose strict regulations on intoxicating hemp products accepted campaign contributions from people and groups affiliated with the industry in the months leading up to the showdown ...