Governor JB Pritzker announced his campaign for a third term in office Thursday, citing his successes of his first six-and-a-half years in office without laying out priorities for a third term.
Read More
A third party poll of a potential Republican primary race between appointed Sen. Darby Hills (R-Barrington Hills) and Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills), shows a potential problem for the appointed incumbent.
Read More
Multiple Democratic sources tell The Illinoize Governor JB Pritzker will announce his campaign for a third term this Thursday.
Read More
Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton, one of the top Democrats seeking a seat in the U.S. Sente next year, says she fears the “Big, Beautiful Bill” tax and spending legislation under consideration in the Senate is most “dangerous” for its potential cuts to Medicaid.
Read More
Multiple Republican sources say former RNC National Committeeman Richard Porter is likely to enter the U.S. Senate race in the coming weeks, giving Republicans potentially their best chance to win a Senate race in the state in sixteen years.
Read More
Governor JB Pritzker signed the Fiscal Year 2026 budget into law Monday, spending $55.2 billion, an increase of $2 billion over the current fiscal year and a $15 billion increase since Pritzker took office in 2019.
Read More
The names of some Illinois lawmakers appeared on documents belonging to the man accused of assassinating a Minnesota lawmaker and attempting to kill another.
Read More
George Papadopoulos, a former Donald Trump campaign aide who spent time in federal prison for making false statements to the FBI about his contact with the Russian government while working for the Trump campaign, will run for Congress in Illinois in 2026, multiple sources tell The Illinoize.
Read More
While legislation aimed at amending the state’s pension law to “fix” tier 2 pensions to quell any issues with federal “safe harbor” laws didn’t advance, a provision did make it into the Budget Implementation, or BIMP, bill in the final hours of the legislative session.
Read More
DuPage County Sheriff Jim Mendrick has had the GOP race for Governor in 2026 to himself since March, but he may be getting company soon.
Read More
How are Chicago area mass transit agencies preparing for the future after the legislature failed to pass governance reform and a plan to help close a $770 million “fiscal cliff” for 2026?
Read More
Democrats admitted the challenges in passing a budget was a challenge and clearly attempted to make President Donald Trump the “bad guy” in the state’s financial situation.
Read More
After the Senate passed a controversial Chicago-area mass transit funding bill late Saturday night, one House source texted “it’s doomed over here, not sure why they would even send it.”
Read More
Around 10pm Friday night, Democrats were brewing with confidence about the chances of passing a state budget without the overnight drama that nearly derailed their budget plan a year ago.
Read More
Notes from Friday night’s House budget hearing and Saturday morning’s Senate budget hearing.
Read More
The House and Senate have each dropped a budget as the two chambers work toward final passage Saturday.
Read More
House Democratic caucus is massively in favor of a budget deal presented to them in caucus Friday afternoon, multiple sources said.
Read More
“Crash and burn,” is the way one top insider described Thursday’s flameout of a Senate plan to restructure and fund mass transit in the Chicago region.
Read More
With time running out on the General Assembly to pass a budget before Saturday’s scheduled adjournment, Governor JB Pritzker drew a line in the sand on tax increases Wednesday.
Read More
“I don’t know anything, do you know anything?” came the response from a well-connected House Democrat Tuesday.
Read More