With four weeks to go before Election Day, a source tells The Illinoize internal polling shows the proposed constitutional amendment to change Illinois’ income tax system from a flat tax to a graduated income tax is currently failing.
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28 counties around Illinois are on the state warning list for high COVID-19 positivity rates. Two of the new counties on the list are home to two of Illinois’ public universities.
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Following her announcement Thursday she was planning to challenge House Speaker Michael Madigan for his job, State Representative Stephanie Kifowit (D-Oswego) spent about 15 minutes with The Illinoize discussing her decision to challenge Madigan and why.
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Republicans on the committee charged with investigating House Speaker Michael Madigan’s role in a $1.3 million bribery scheme by utility giant Commonwealth Edison appear to be running out of options in their attempts to subpoena the septuagenarian Speaker to testify.
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When political analysts discuss which Senate races will decide who controls the chamber in 2021, Arizona, North Carolina, Maine and Colorado get the attention. Illinois? Not so much.
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A suburban Democrat says she is challenging longtime powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan for the position. Rep. Stephanie Kifowit (D-Oswego), a former Marine who was elected to the House in 2012, announced her intentions Thursday morning.
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Governor JB Pritzker Wednesday again called on House Speaker Michael Madigan to testify before the House Special Investigative Committee probing the Speaker’s role in a $1.3 million bribery scheme by utility company Commonwealth Edison. But Pritzker did not go so far to say that he supports a subpoena to compel the Speaker to testify.
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Governor JB Pritzker’s Administration and the Illinois Department of Public Health have hit the northwest region of Illinois with additional COVID-19 restrictions following a more than 2% increase in positive tests in the past two weeks.
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Democrats leading the investigative committee in the Illinois House charged with probing House Speaker Michael Madigan’s role in a Commonwealth Edison bribery scheme blocked efforts by Republican members of the committee to issue a subpoena compelling Madigan to testify.
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House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) says House Speaker Michael Madigan’s role in a long-running bribery scheme by utility giant Commonwealth Edison was part of “an old fashioned patronage system” to use his office to find jobs and contracts for associates and precinct captains.
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A member of Governor JB Pritzker’s staff has tested positive for COVID-19. Pritzker will self-isolate for 14 days.
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House Speaker Michael Madigan has said he won’t voluntarily testify before a House Committee investigating him, but a top official with utility giant Commonwealth Edison is expected to testify today.
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There are two, large, empty concrete bases outside of the Illinois State Capitol today after statues of two historical state figures were removed over the weekend.
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Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan sent a letter to members of the House Special Investigative Committee today saying he won’t testify in the committee’s inquiry into his role in a Commonwealth Edison bribery scheme.
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The Illinois Department of Public Health reports 17 Illinois counties, mostly downstate, are on the state’s warning list for infection rates of the coronavirus.
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2018 was one of the most destructive election cycles for Illinois Republicans in recent memory. The GOP lost the Governor’s office, lost two of the state’s seats in Congress, 8 State House seats and 3 Senate seats. One Republican described the beating as a “bloodbath.”
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Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton may have landed herself in hot water promising a tax increase of 20% on everyone if voters don’t approve a constitutional amendment in November imposing a graduated income tax in Illinois.
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It appears at least one official from utility giant Commonwealth Edison will appear before a Special Investigative Committee in the Illinois House next week. The committee is set for its first substantive hearing in its probe into powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan’s role in a wide-ranging federal bribery case against ComEd.
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With four Democratic lawmakers having been indicted, three of them pleading guilty, since the legislature was sworn in last year, Senate Republicans are trying to capitalize on momentum to push ethics reform through the Statehouse.
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The President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago says more relief money from Washington is needed to stop further pain to families and businesses.
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