Business groups from around the state were quick to offer their opposition to Governor JB Pritzker’s budget plan to eliminate corporate tax breaks to balance the budget.
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In his third budget presentation Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker blamed members of the Republican superminority in the House and Senate, as well as struggles of the COVID-19 pandemic for many of the crises facing Illinois government.
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Governor JB Pritzker’s speech was recorded yesterday at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield.
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Governor JB Pritzker will present his third budget today in a combined State of the State and budget address.
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Following 18” of snow in some parts of the state in the past 72 hours, Governor JB Pritzker has declared a disaster area in all 102 counties in the state.
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Two State Senators come from different parties, different ethnicities, different backgrounds, different cities. They don’t agree on anything in our hyper-partisan world, right? Not so fast.
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It’s an annual tradition. The governor gives his budget address and the legislature, particularly those in the opposing party, take pot shots at it.
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A recently departed state lawmaker announced his run for Governor Monday while another relative newcomer to the General Assembly will announce a campaign for the job next week, sources tell The Illinoize.
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Local public health officials are complaining there isn’t enough COVID-19 vaccine to meet current demand, and Governor JB Pritzker shouldn’t open up eligibility to a new group yet.
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After complaints pharmacy companies Walgreens and CVS Health were too slow in vaccinating residents at nursing homes around the state, officials with the two companies pushed back during an Illinois Senate committee hearing Thursday.
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If there’s a list of who wasn’t prepared for a global pandemic-induced economic recession, the Illinois Department of Employment Security, the state’s unemployment agency, would be right up with about everyone else.
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Democrats are calling it “a new day.” Republicans are calling it “more of the same.”
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Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-Channahon), who has drawn criticism from Republicans across the state for his criticisms of former President Donald Trump says he won’t run statewide in 2022.
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After consistently saying for months he would raise income taxes on every Illinoisan if voters shot down his proposed graduated income tax in November, it appears Governor JB Pritzker is backing off his pledge.
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Across the state, thousands of senior citizens have spent hours stressing while trying to grab scarce, or even nonexistent, COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
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Legal sports betting in Illinois brought in a pretty penny for its first Super Bowl.
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A Democratic state senator has scheduled a hearing into the state’s slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Illinois Republican Party got its first downstate chairman since 1988 Saturday and the Illinois Senate Black Caucus picked up two new members.
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State Republican party officials had hoped to choose a new chairman last weekend, but a snowstorm delayed the decision to Saturday, and the race appears to be “wide open,” according to multiple state central committeemen.
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The justice system failed Cassandra Tanner-Miller. Her estranged husband nearly beat her to death, badly hurt her daughter, and shot and killed her 18-month-old son.
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