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An Illinois State Board of Elections hearing officer has recommended Senate President Don Harmon pay all of the nearly $10 million fine he received for alleged campaign violations last year.
Let’s be frank. There hasn’t been that much tangible policy discussion since lawmakers departed Springfield in the early hours of June.
A U.S. District Court Judge in Chicago Thursday afternoon granted a request from state of Illinois and Chicago city officials to block the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois.

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An Illinois State Board of Elections hearing officer has recommended Senate President Don Harmon pay all of the nearly $10 million fine he received for alleged campaign violations last year.
Let’s be frank. There hasn’t been that much tangible policy discussion since lawmakers departed Springfield in the early hours of June.
A U.S. District Court Judge in Chicago Thursday afternoon granted a request from state of Illinois and Chicago city officials to block the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois.
After President Trump wrote on social media this week without evidence that Governor JB Pritzker “should be in jail” for “failing to protect [ICE] officers,” few elected members of the General Assembly appear ready to break from the leader of their party.
We spent much of Tuesday asking lawmakers and other stakeholders what they were hearing about major issues in the hopper for veto session, which begins next week.

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Opinion
Governor JB Pritzker is taking policy and political risks by wading into the biggest fight of his political life with President Trump that, if things go poorly, could lead to a militarized state on the streets of Chicago and the state budget in tatters.
Those of us in the Illinois political world were delivered a gut punch Sunday when we received word of the passing of former Gov. Jim Edgar, who died after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Here are some thoughts and observations on the budding mess in the GOP race for governor:
Somebody keep Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-Hindsboro) away from the app formerly known as Twitter.
If you read Beth Hundsorfer’s reporting in Capitol News Illinois last week about the failure of DCFS and its contracting agency, Lutheran Child and Family Services, in the death of 18-year-old Mackenzi Felmlee last year, you were likely incensed. I sure was.
Governor JB Pritzker got an off the wall question yesterday, but one he could have easily just knocked out of the park with partisan talking points.
