The year Illinois got present Constitution
What is 1970?
What county do you live in?
What is Cook?
A proposed law is a called this
What is a bill?
This person pays the bills of the state.
Who is the comptroller?
This type of government has a mayor that presides over council meetings.
What is the Mayor-and-Council Form
Age that you must be to be the Governor of Illinois
What is 25 years old?
The number of Supreme Court judges in Illinois
What is seven?
How many sections in the Illinois Bill of Rights?
What is 24?
The number of Illinois Senators and Illinois Representatives.
What is 59 Senators and 118 Representatives?
Each county is divided into these.
What is a township?
If the office of the Governor becomes vacant, this person is next in line of succession.
The Lieutenant Governor
A village, city or town created to provide services that residents need.
What is a municipality?
Age that you must be to be a member of the Illinois General Assembly.
What is 21 year old?
The general trial courts in Illinois
What are the Circuit Courts?
Number of senators
What is 59?
They are elected every two years.
Who is an Illinois Representative?
You must be 21 to be in this.
What is the House?
This is the chief legal officer of the state of Illinois.
The Attorney General
The number of counties in Illinois
What is 102?
Has the power to appoint many state officials
Who is the Governor?
The type of election you can vote in if you are seventeen, but will be eighteen by the general election
What is the primary election?
Number of reps
What is 118?
The presiding officers of both the House and the Senate.
Who are the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House?
If the Governor vetoes a bill, the General Assembly needs this to pass the bill
What is a 3/5 vote in both houses?
This person is responsible for the safekeeping and and investment of state money.
Who is the Treasurer?
Number of counties in Illinois.
What is a 102?
The commander in chief of the state militia
Who is the Governor?
Illinois Supreme Court judges are selected by
What is the people?
The capital of Illinois.
What is Springfield?
The role of the House and Senate in impeachment proceedings.
What is the House starts the proceedings and the Senate tries or decides the cases?
This person helps the Governor, next in line.
What is the Lieutenant Governor?
This fraction will be needed to make changes to Constitution.
What is 3/5?
This gave local government more power to deal with situations that might arise in their community.
What is Home Rule?
Approves appointments made by the Governor
Who is the Illinois state Senate?
Half plus 1
What is a quorum?