Illinois Republican Chairman Don Tracy has asked all of the party’s gubernatorial candidates in the June 28 primary to sign a pledge to support the eventual nominee in the November election.
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A ban on “ghost guns,” homemade or home-built firearms without a serial number hasn’t even gotten to Governor JB Pritzker’s desk after the legislature passed it Friday night. But the likely law is soon to be challenged in court.
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Just hours after the legislature adjourned for the spring early Saturday morning, a top Democrat and a top Republican in Springfield shared vastly different views on where Illinois is headed.
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In the wee hours of Saturday morning, Democrats pushed through a Fiscal Year 2023 budget that spends more money than ever while sending direct tax refund checks to taxpayers and socking away a billion dollars into the state’s arid rainy day fund.
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More than 90% of Illinois families will receive direct cash payments, grocery and gasoline taxes will be cut, and local governments will receive more funding in a budget deal announced by Governor JB Pritzker and the two legislative leaders Thursday afternoon.
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Republican Tom McCullagh was one of two Republicans hoping to replace Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) in the Will County-based 97th District. House Republicans distributed a police report by Shorewood Police that McCullagh was interviewed and was (or is) being investigated for “grooming” an underage person.
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It’s not a particular secret in Springfield that House Speaker Chris Welch and Senate President Don Harmon don’t like each other very much. And as last year’s tense negotiations over an energy bill showed, Harmon and Governor Pritzker are not buddy-buddy.
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Late Tuesday night, House Democrats introduced a 3,200 page state budget.
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A group of mostly moderate Democratic lawmakers Monday unveiled a package of bills they hope will counteract public backlash to rising crime and a criminal justice reform bill passed last year dubbed by opponents as “anti-police.”
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Senate Democrats Friday unveiled a $1.8 billion tax break package with a week to go in session that would send election year refund checks to most Illinoisans.
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With a week left in the legislative session, it appears there is still a long way for business and labor to go before they reach an agreement on a fix to the hole in the state’s unemployment fund.
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The national Democratic Governor’s Association ad has launched a new ad campaign targeting a Republican most likely seen as incumbent Democrat JB Pritzker’s toughest challenger in November.
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With the clock ticking toward the abnormally early adjournment of the spring legislative session, there remain numerous open questions before Democrats finalize a state budget.
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If Governor JB Pritzker is concerned about being painted as “soft on crime” ahead of the fall election, Senate Democrats sure didn’t help him avoid that allegation Monday night.
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The challenge filed against Republican venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan’s nominating petitions was engineered by the campaign of primary foe Gary Rabine.
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House Democrats are using a portion of the state’s remaining federal bailout dollars to help dig the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund out of a hole estimated to be $4.5 billion or higher.
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This Chicago Tribune headline will surely be used in ads against Republican candidate Richard Irvin, but if you dig in deeply, you’ll see Irvin was complimentary of a portion of the controversial law.
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One of Governor JB Pritzker’s nominees for the state Prison Review Board was shot down by the full Senate Tuesday and another two are in jeopardy, failing to gain a positive vote from a Senate committee.
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Multiple sources say billionaire Ken Griffin’s statewide candidate slate is being engineered by two top confidants and their tactics have included threats, intimidation, bullying, and the promises of campaign cash to get out of a primary.
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As petition filing has come and gone for the June primary election, we take a look at the dozens of primaries for seats in the Illinois House.
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