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Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) won the closest House race since 2018 Tuesday, defeating Democrat Maria Peterson by 47 votes in the northwest suburban 52nd House District after Peterson continually cut into McLaughlin’s lead with late arriving mail-in ballots for the past two weeks.
Lawmakers returned to Springfield Tuesday afternoon for the second and final legislative week of 2024, the annual fall veto session. Without any vetoes from Governor JB Pritzker and no real policy urgency, many lawmakers are expecting a quiet, if not shortened, stay in Springfield.
Champaign County posted new results late Wednesday in the 104th House District race between appointed Rep. Brandun Schweizer (R-Danville) and Democrat Jarrett Clem, tightening the race even further.
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Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) won the closest House race since 2018 Tuesday, defeating Democrat Maria Peterson by 47 votes in the northwest suburban 52nd House District after Peterson continually cut into McLaughlin’s lead with late arriving mail-in ballots for the past two weeks.
Lawmakers returned to Springfield Tuesday afternoon for the second and final legislative week of 2024, the annual fall veto session. Without any vetoes from Governor JB Pritzker and no real policy urgency, many lawmakers are expecting a quiet, if not shortened, stay in Springfield.
Champaign County posted new results late Wednesday in the 104th House District race between appointed Rep. Brandun Schweizer (R-Danville) and Democrat Jarrett Clem, tightening the race even further.
The tight leads of Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) and Rep. Amy Grant (R-Wheaton) narrowed further Tuesday as election authorities continued to report counts of late-arriving mail in ballots.
Senate Republican Leader John Curran (R-Downers Grove) says he’s concerned Democrats may try to ram a tax increase through the General Assembly during the January lame duck session to prop up mass transit systems in the Chicago area.
As the annual fall veto session kicks off Tuesday in Springfield, there isn’t much direction on what lawmakers may be taking up over the two week return to the Capitol.
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We’re updating our Top Ten Legislative Districts that Could Flip as conditions on the ground (and ad dollars in the air) change the landscape with two weeks to go until Election Day.
When Democrats redrew the legislative maps in 2021, good government advocates, observers, jamokes like me, and, of course, Republicans, complained the gerrymandered maps would reduce competition and provide worse representation for taxpayers in the General Assembly over the next decade.
Here’s a rundown of some of the things we’re hearing around the state as campaign season prepares to turn to October:
This will not look great for Republicans, as you may imagine, but not every GOP insider is shaking in their loafers.
Arrogance seems to be Governor JB Pritzker’s default position every time he’s posed a questions about the rights of legal gun owners in the state.
If Governor JB Pritzker joins the ticket as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate or would leave Illinois to join a potential Harris administration in the cabinet, it would set off a series of events that would potentially lead to chaos in Illinois government and politics.