In his now-daily COVID-19 news conference Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker said Illinois State Police had been “alerted” to be on patrol for bars and restaurants open to indoor service in defiance of Pritzker’s executive orders.
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The Chairman of the Board of the Regional Transportation Authority, which distributes funding for Chicago area mass transit agencies Metra, Pace, and the Chicago Transit Authority, says the services will run out of money in early 2021 without another federal bailout.
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Illinois’ richest person, billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, has dropped another $2.5 million dollars into the battle to remove Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride from the bench and has aim on a southern Illinois Supreme Court contest.
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Governor JB Pritzker’s announcement Tuesday banning indoor service at bars and restaurants in four suburban and south suburban counties beginning this weekend has left many bar and restaurant owners scrambling to survive the latest shutdown.
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Governor JB Pritzker has announced his largest COVID-19 related restriction since lifting his stay-at-home order at the end of May. He has slapped four suburban counties with restrictions on indoor dining, group sizes, and operating hours of three major casinos.
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A political battle for the partisan swing of Illinois’ highest court is unfolding in the state’s north-central region.
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Campaign finance reports are in from the 3rd quarter. We know who is spending money where and how much Democrats are outspending their Republican opponents. We have a sense of who is running a good campaign and who isn’t. So, with two weeks to go, we present to you an updated list of our top 10 legislative seats likely to flip in November.
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Governor JB Pritzker announced the closure of bars and restaurants to indoor dining in southern Illinois and warned other regions of the state could soon follow.
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As the state listed 34 of Illinois’ 102 counties, a full 1/3, to the state warning list for high positivity rates of the coronavirus, Governor JB Pritzker announced the state is already “in a new wave” of the disease.
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State candidate fundraising reports were due at midnight Thursday into Friday, and the cash disparity between Democrats and Republicans leaves many GOP legislators and candidates in a precarious position heading toward Election Day.
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The state has brought in more than $100 million in tax collections since recreational use of marijuana was legalized at the beginning of the year. September collections on August sales topped $20 million for the first time.
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Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike are urging families to hold smaller Thanksgiving dinners and Christmas or other holiday gatherings.
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House Democrats appear to be using anonymous Facebook pages to promote Democratic candidates and to attack Republican contenders ahead of the November 3 election. But, whether the ads flout state law may be up for debate.
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Back in 2007, as a reporter in Champaign, I was covering a lot of unrest and dissention around the University of Illinois, its Board of Trustees, and a load of issues that eventually took down the school’s President, Chancellor, and other high-ranking officials.
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Lake County Democrats have chosen a replacement for former State Senator Terry Link, who resigned amid tax evasion charges.
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Illinois’ richest person already made a splash this fall donating around $40 million to defeat the Governor’s proposed graduated income tax amendment, now he’s making a splash to remove an Illinois Supreme Court justice.
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After a Cook County Judge denied a motion from the Libertarian-leaning Illinois Policy Institute Friday to block the graduated tax constitutional amendment, a spokesman says the effort “continues to its next legal phase.”
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Following more than a full month of bars and restaurants closed to indoor diners in the Metro East region of the state around St. Louis, a decrease in the coronavirus positivity rate has rolled back state mitigations in the region.
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There’s little to make you think State Representative Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) is at any risk of losing his seat in November in a district President Trump won by around 37 percentage points in 2016. But his opponent shook the earth a little rolling out an endorsement from Halbrook’s daughter, Ashli Crowe.
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The two sides of the battle over changing tax rates in Illinois have started a new battle over taxing retirement income in the state.
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