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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Arguments over the controversial SAFE-T Act before the Supreme Court Tuesday centered on two main points: whether the constitution requires bail to be monetary and whether the legislature was infringing on the authority of the judicial branch.
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Multiple sources have told The Illinoize that Galesburg businessman and philanthropist Rafael “Ray” Estrada will launch a challenge to freshman Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline).
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Some right wing media outlets have been pushing a narrative in recent weeks that new Democratic justices Mary K. O’Brien and Elizabeth Rochford should recuse themselves from cases involving Governor JB Pritzker.
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Two State’s Attorneys will argue before the Illinois Supreme Court this morning that justices should rule the controversial cash-bail elimination provision of the so-called SAFE-T Act is unconstitutional.
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“I think you saw it has been a little bit more cooperative than a lot of us expected,” one lobbyist told me last night. “Democrats also showed some self restraint.”
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D.C. Republicans are seemingly frustrated as they aim to find a candidate to challenge freshman Congressman Eric Sorensen (D-Moline) in 2024.
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A recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling exposed gaping holes in the 2008 Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
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Four years ago, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas ran for Chicago Mayor, finishing ninth with around 5% of the vote. Four years later, Vallas is advancing to the mayoral runoff and the leading vote getter.
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In their final brief before the Illinois Supreme Court hears arguments over the constitutionality of ending cash bail and the controversial SAFE-T Act, the Illinois Attorney General’s office is urging the high court to uphold the law.
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