More than four months after Rep. Harry Benton (D-Plainfield) was removed from House Democratic Caucus after allegations of sexual harassment, House Speaker Chris Welch says Benton should resign or face expulsion from the House.
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As Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias appears to be nearing an entrance in the 2027 Chicago mayoral race, organized labor may be organizing itself right into Giannoulias’ camp.
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Governor JB Pritzker said Tuesday he and Illinois lawmakers want the Chicago Bears to draft their own legislation to help the team stay in the state of Illinois, essentially deferring much of the heavy lifting from the state to the team.
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While A.I. generated content hasn’t hit the airwaves in Illinois yet, numerous A.I. graphics and illustrations have begun circulating around the race for governor.
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Hours after receiving questions from reporters why he hadn’t toured storm damage in Illinois communities ravaged by tornadoes in recent weeks, it appears Governor JB Pritzker made an unannounced stop in one of the impacted communities.
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Sen. Linda Holmes (D-Aurora) withdrew from the November ballot Monday and announced she plans to leave office at the end of her term, capping a 20-year run in the Senate.
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After the Illinois AFL-CIO, one of the state’s most influential labor unions, announced this week it was “deferring” its endorsements for the November election citing frustration with Democrats they usually favor, many Democrats we speak to are divided on how to respond.
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It’s no surprise to anyone, really, that Governor JB Pritzker is contemplating a run for President in 2028 (with a launch likely coming in 2027) all while Pritzker runs for a third term as Governor this November.
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Both Governor JB Pritzker and one of his top aides Tuesday pointed blame for the state’s failure to advance legislation to keep the Chicago Bears on the franchise itself and said the team needs to step up to help find a final resolution.
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While we spent the final hours of the legislative session focused on the Bears and the budget, we missed some of the things that moved through the House and Senate in the final hours before the General Assembly adjourned around 4:30a.m. on June 1.
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The Chicago Bears said in a statement Friday morning the team is moving forward with plans to build a stadium in Hammond, Indiana, though they cautioned no final site has been selected.
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The Chicago Bears stadium saga sucked all the air out of the Statehouse this spring, but lawmakers still weren’t able to get a final product through both chambers before the General Assembly adjourned early Monday.
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The Republican Darren Bailey campaign for Governor Tuesday took the extraordinary step of directly challenging a third party or independent candidate’s attempts to get on the November ballot.
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Governor JB Pritzker and Democratic lawmakers wanted to tout a balanced budget, with $800 million in tax increases and fee swaps to close the gap.
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Democrats in the General Assembly advanced a $56 billion spending plan early Monday that includes some $900 million dollars in tax increases and fund sweeps to close the budget hole for the FY2027 budget, which begins July 1.
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Like a last second Hail Mary pass floating through the air giving momentary hope of an unlikely victory, Democrats seemed poised for a while early Monday morning to scrap, debate, write, and pass a new bill aimed at keeping the Chicago Bears in Illinois in around 30 hours.
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Democrats released a 3,500 page Fiscal Year 2027 spending plan around 9pm Saturday night in anticipation of supermajority Democrat passage of the new budget before the scheduled adjournment of the spring legislative session tonight.
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After a day of little public progress on a Chicago Bears/megaprojects bill, the path to passage of a bill by Sunday night’s adjournment deadline seem to get even more complicated.
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While Democrats appear to be scrambling to finalize the state budget and the Bears/megaprojects bill before Sunday’s spring adjournment deadline, there’s one group in Springfield who wants major issues to bleed into June: Republicans.
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There are still a pile of moving parts in the negotiations to pass a state budget, but Democratic leaders are confident, publicly and privately, they can “land the plane” before Sunday night.
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