page_title: Government of Illinois
section_title: Departments
hierarchical_section_title: Government of Illinois / Executive / Departments
caption_attribution_description: The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC) (also known as Clark &amp; Lake due to its CTA Blue Line stop). located at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop, Chicago, Illinois.
context_page_description: The Government of Illinois, under the state’s 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. Legislative functions are granted to the General Assembly, a bicameral body consisting of the 118-member House of Representatives and the 59-member Senate. The judiciary is composed of the Supreme Court of Illinois and lower courts.
context_section_description: The government of Illinois has numerous departments, agencies, boards and commissions, but the code departments, so called because they're established by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, provide most of the state's services:
  Department on Aging
  Department of Agriculture
  Department of Central Management Services
  Department of Children and Family Services 
  Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
  Department of Corrections
  Department of Employment Security
  Emergency Management Agency
  Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
  Department of Healthcare and Family Services
  Department of Human Rights
  Department of Human Services
  Department of Juvenile Justice
  Department of Labor
  Department of the Lottery
  Department of Natural Resources
  Department of Public Health
  Department of Revenue
  Department of State Police
  Department of Transportation
  Department of Veterans' Affairs
  Regulations are codified in the Illinois Administrative Code. The Illinois Register is the weekly publication containing proposed and adopted rules.
caption: The James R. Thompson Center in the Loop
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