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Stratton secures Pritzker’s backing in Senate bid, positions herself as ‘fighter’ of Trump

By HANNAH MEISEL & BEN SZALINSKI
Apr 25, 2025 3:54 pm - Just one day into her campaign to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Friday received a key endorsement from Gov. JB Pritzker, nearly eight years after he first tapped her to be his running mate.
Democratic state senators launch ‘For The People’ bus tour to address federal budget cuts

By Steve Zalusky
Apr 24, 2025 3:38 pm - Buffalo Grove will be one of four stops on a bus tour state Democratic legislators are taking Sunday to raise awareness of federal budget cuts and explain how they are acting to safeguard programs and provide financial relief to working families.
Des Plaines enacts grocery tax to avoid losing $1.4 million annually

By Russell Lissau
Apr 24, 2025 12:56 pm - Des Plaines has joined a growing list of suburbs implementing a local 1% sales tax on groceries to offset the pending elimination of a state tax.
‘Time to pass the torch’: With Durbin not seeking reelection, here’s who could run.

By Marni Pyke and Russell Lissau
Apr 23, 2025 10:41 am - Sen. Dick Durbin will not seek re-election, setting off what’s likely to be a lively skirmish to replace him. Here’s some Democrats and Republicans eyeing the job.
‘I stared down the barrel of a gun’: Lawmakers focus on transit safety at hearing

By Marni Pyke
Apr 22, 2025 9:12 pm - CTA workers describe violence on the job, suburban, Chicago lawmakers listen amid transit reform churn.
Illinois scrambles to boost locally produced farm products after Trump’s funding freeze

By Simon Carr
Apr 22, 2025 1:36 pm - Amid federal cuts to two food programs designed to strengthen statewide food systems, Illinois lawmakers are trying to help small farms by pushing two bills through the legislature that would reallocate state funds to purchase farm food locally and help poultry farmers sell more of their products directly to consumers.
Project Labor Agreements deliver on policymakers’ promises to taxpayers and workers

By Frank Manzo IV
Apr 19, 2025 1:48 pm - With tariffs, market volatility, and mass government layoffs dominating headlines lately, much of our national economic discourse has centered around whether public policies and investments are maximizing value for taxpayers and opportunities for American workers.
Lawmakers moving forward on public defender reform

By Ben Szalinski
Apr 18, 2025 1:44 pm - SPRINGFIELD — When Elisabeth Pollock took over as the Champaign County public defender in 2022, one of her team’s attorneys was handling 500 cases in a courtroom that sho...
Pared-back ‘Right to Play’ bill advances in General Assembly, awaits Senate action

By Peter Hancock
Apr 18, 2025 1:34 pm - The Illinois House gave its approval to legislation that would give high school athletes a limited right to compete in non-school events or on non-school teams during the same season in which they play for their school.
Jones testifies that FBI asked him to wear a wire on hospital CEO, other lawmakers

By Hannah Meisel
Apr 18, 2025 1:25 pm - Federal agents asked state Sen. Emil Jones III to wear a wire against a politically connected hospital CEO and his fellow lawmakers in Springfield, the senator testified Thursday in his own defense at his federal corruption trial.

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