“Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker campaigned in 2018 against partisan gerrymandering, saying he would ‘pledge to veto’ any 2022 map drawn by the state Legislature…. Gov. Pritzker now says he’ll be satisfied with a map drawn by his legislative allies. In a recent press conference he walked back his veto pledge and scored Republicans for objecting

Decisions on whether public-sector workers should be classified as supervisory and thus not eligible for union protections should be based “on actual employee job duties and not solely on written job descriptions,” according to Senate Bill 525.

Linda Chapa LaVia represented the Aurora area in the Illinois House of Representatives for more than 15 years, ultimately co-chairing the legislature’s response to the deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks at the Quincy Veterans’ Home. It was that experience that drew Pritzker to appoint her to lead IDVA when he became governor, he said.

Tom Cavanagh, past-Sangamon Treasurer and past-Capital Township Supervisor: “The effort by some local Democrats to dramatically increase the number of elected officials in Capital Township mocks township residents’ overwhelming referendum vote. This push for more political jobs ignores the current bipartisan, statewide trend to reduce layers of local government.”

“But what of the future? The Legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting & Accountability reports that if the state continues to increase spending at current rates, its unpaid bills will go right back up. The commission forecast $10.6 billion in unpaid bills in Fiscal Year 2023-24.”

Jim Dey: “No one who knows how the redistricting process really works could possibly have taken the governor at his word. Gerrymandering, which could guarantee control of the Legislature through 2032, is simply too important to the majority party to abandon in the name of doing the right thing for the right reason.”

The Illinois attorney general’s appeal of a downstate judge’s ruling sets up a battle over whether the state can require residents to hold an ID card in order to own a firearm. First enacted in 1968, the state’s Firearm Owner Identification Act does just that.

Thursday, the Illinois Senate passed House Bill 2877 that state Sen. Omar Aquino said lays out how the funds would be administered; He said the program would include prioritizing the spending on other factors beyond just a tenant being in arrears. “We want to prioritize again those folks that have been hardest hit by COVID or who have experienced homelessness before.”

America’s youngest students are being bombarded with classroom activism and indoctrination that is inappropriate not only developmentally but for public school systems in general.