A U.S. District Court Judge in Chicago Thursday afternoon granted a request from state of Illinois and Chicago city officials to block the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois.

After President Trump wrote on social media this week without evidence that Governor JB Pritzker “should be in jail” for “failing to protect [ICE] officers,” few elected members of the General Assembly appear ready to break from the leader of their party.

We spent much of Tuesday asking lawmakers and other stakeholders what they were hearing about major issues in the hopper for veto session, which begins next week.

Rep. Norine Hammond (R-Macomb) got her long-awaited primary challenge Tuesday.

Former Sen. Darren Bailey, the 2022 GOP nominee for Governor, who lost to JB Pritzker by 13 points, admitted Tuesday what most people already knew: he wasn’t planning on running for Governor in 2026.

In a letter Tuesday to Governor JB Pritzker, House Speaker Chris Welch, Senate President Don Harmon and, other Democratic leaders, the Illinois AFL-CIO pulled out of the long-running “agreed bill” process.