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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While Democrats in control of state government try to reach agreement on the major remaining issues facing lawmakers before Sunday’s scheduled adjournment of the spring legislative session, some frustrations appear to be simmering over.
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Governor JB Pritzker doesn’t appear ready to push any major temporary reduction or repeal of the state’s gasoline tax, instead, likely opting for pausing the state’s 1.3¢ inflation adjustment that is scheduled to kick in July 1.
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Political strategist Collin Corbett, a longtime Republican who made a public break from the GOP last month, formally filed petitions Tuesday to run for Governor as an independent.
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Sen. Dale Fowler (R-Harrisburg) said Tuesday he’ll resign his post at the conclusion of the spring legislative session, about seven months before the end of his term.
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With seven full days remaining before the General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn the spring legislative session, some major issues remain unresolved.
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As lawmakers head down the final stretch to their May 31 adjournment deadline, here’s a cheat sheet on some of the major issues still outstanding.
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With less than two weeks remaining before the scheduled adjournment of spring legislative session, we’re finally getting a sense of where the Senate stands on legislation aimed at keeping the Chicago Bears in Illinois.
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Long simmering tensions between Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson popped up again Monday as Pritzker and the General Assembly face an end-of-session deadline to pass legislation to keep the Chicago Bears in the state of Illinois.
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