The executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association says the issue is likely to end up in court.

The fireworks ban prompts Illinoisans to take their business to neighboring states, costing Illinois both tax revenue and jobs. Pennsylvania, which has roughly the same population as Illinois, brings in $10 million in tax revenue annually from fireworks sales.

“We will follow the law and post the signs if the courts require us to do so,” Illinois Fuel and Retail Association CEO Josh Sharp said. “But we are going to make sure our customers understand the whole story about our state’s gas tax, not just the part some of the lawmakers in Springfield want to talk about.”

Vice President Kamala Harris will first stop in Chicago to speak at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials 39th Annual Conference, and then travel to Plainfield to highlight the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts in addressing the maternal health crisis.

Mary Beck, who works at Penn Aluminum International in Murphysboro, has filed a federal charge against the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 702, saying it had no legal authority to deduct from her paychecks and use the funds for political activity. Additionally, her case states union officials violated federal labor law by refusing to respond to her requests to stop dues deductions.

The Illinois Fuel and Retail Association has gone to court to block the state requirement that gas stations post signs stating that the legislature suspended a gas tax increase through December 31, 2022 – but if the court does not strike down that requirement, it will provide signs to all gas stations stating that lawmakers have doubled the gas tax since 2019… creating the second-highest gas tax in the nation… and relegating the required language to a corner of that sign.

A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.

Former State Senator Thomas Cullerton pleaded guilty in March to ghost-payrolling with the Teamsters Union; He confessed to improperly getting $248,000 from the union for doing no work.

Greg Hinz: “After losing the headquarters of Boeing and Caterpillar, but gaining a chunk of a Kellogg that’s now breaking into three pieces—it’s obvious that Illinois has hope but can use some help in retaining and attracting corporate HQs and the jobs and prestige and come with it. That help has arrived, in the form of the proceedings of last weekend’s convention of the Texas Republican Party. Whatever its intent, the party wrote a script of what not to say in an era where attracting top

In May, the industries that saw the most gain were leisure and hospitality, educational and health services, and construction.

Southern Illinois is among the most vulnerable places in the country heading into the summer, according to a forecast published by the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a regulatory authority. The area, along with large parts of Michigan and Wisconsin and other states linked to the regional grid, has been put on notice that it is facing a “high risk of energy emergencies during peak summer conditions.”

In a 4-3 partisan opinion, the Illinois Supreme Court again has refused to directly answer whether the state’s Firearm Owner Identification program passes constitutional muster as a restraint on federal gun ownership rights, leaving a woman who faces criminal charges under the law facing years of legal limbo, strung along by the court’s Democratic majority.

“The variety of motives and strategies behind the SSI movement is exemplified by the politically-influential Pritzker family in Chicago, Illinois, Bilek writes: A motivating and driving force behind the Pritzkers’ family-wide commitment to SSI has been J.B.’s cousin Jennifer (born James) Pritzker—a retired lieutenant colonel in the Illinois Army National Guard and the father of three children.”