With just three weeks remaining in the spring legislative session, it appears Democrats are facing numerous internal conflicts on just how much money to spend in a new state budget.
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U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn Friday granted a motion from gun-rights groups to stop the state from enforcing the assault weapons ban lawmakers passed in January and the Governor signed into law hours later.
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Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur), a founding member of the so-called “Eastern Bloc” of conservative members which morphed into the more formal “Freedom Caucus” told The Illinoize Tuesday he will not seek re-election in 2024.
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who earned a reputation as a prosecutor who didn’t prosecute crimes, announced Tuesday she won’t seek re-election in 2024.
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After dropping new legislation to restart negotiations on a new stadium for the Chicago Bears in suburban Arlington heights, Rep. Marty Moylan (D-Des Plaines) says he plans to get the bill done in the final weeks of the spring legislative session.
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After a combination of political cash buoyed by unions and a billionaire governor snowed Republicans over in 2022, numerous GOP operatives are concerned the same is likely to happen in 2024.
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New legislation emerged late Thursday to provide incentives to build a new stadium for the Chicago Bears in suburban Arlington Heights. But legislative sources indicate the new bill is neither drafted or endorsed by the organization, and the Bears had no role in drafting it.
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Progressive Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas (D-Chicago) is expected to resign from the Senate next month after being named First Deputy Mayor by incoming Mayor Brandon Johnson Thursday.
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If there are official records of this sort of thing, we can’t find them, but it appears Chicago Mayor-Elect is receiving a nearly unprecedented honor in the General Assembly today.
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With about a month remaining before the scheduled adjournment of the spring legislative session, we got a look (or lack thereof) into the priorities of the four legislative leaders Tuesday.
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After a large group of teenagers swarmed Chicago’s Loop over the weekend resulting in vandalism, fights, and even two shootings, business leaders are indicating privately they’re “spooked” by the lack of a forceful response by Mayor-Elect Brandon Johnson.
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Ahead of an expected bond sale this week, Governor JB Pritzker jetted to New York Monday to sell investors on the state’s improving fiscal health amid turmoil on financial markets.
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While much has been made of Chicago’s significant turn leftward electing a new mayor aligned with “Democratic Socialists,” candidates to the right of center won mayoral races in large cities in Illinois like Naperville, Joliet, Springfield, and Champaign.
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Joliet, Naperville, and Springfield elected GOP-backed mayors Tuesday.
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After decades of rule from establishment or moderate Democrats, Chicago voters made a dramatic turn leftward Tuesday night, electing progressive firebrand Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson as the city’s 57th Mayor.
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Prosecutors Tuesday played multiple secret video recordings captured by former ComEd executive turned government informant Fidel Marquez in early 2019, outlining a scheme to continue employing lobbyists with ties to then-House Speaker Michael Madigan for doing little to no work.
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Fidel Marquez, a former Commonwealth Edison executive , who pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy, testified Monday in the trial of the so-called “ComEd Four.”
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Democrats had a banner year in Illinois in 2022. But it’s possible due to gerrymandering, fundraising advantages, and GOP struggles in the suburbs that Democrats could expand their legislative majorities, at least in the House, in 2024.
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After losing the race for Governor by more than a half-million votes in 2022, former Sen. Darren Bailey and his wife, Cindy, appear to be angling to expand their political reach in southern Illinois.
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The federal trial of a former Commonwealth Edison executive, two lobbyists, and a close confidante of former House Speaker Michael Madigan has provided explosive moments implicating the former political powerbroker and has already shed light on the House of Cards-style politics played during Madigan’s reign.
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