“If Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants us all to start driving mainly expensive EVs, he’ll have to make sure public charging stations are as prolific as corner gas stations….Consumers so far have not been jolted into going electric. In addition, there are production challenges for the EV industry.”

“It’s not just my race in Michigan. While claiming the moral high ground, Democrats have been busy rewarding candidates like my opponent across the country…(In) Illinois, the Democratic Governors Association dropped $35 million on Super PAC ads targeting moderate Republican mayor of Aurora Richard Irvin and elevating his election-denying, Trump-endorsed opponent, Darren Bailey, who ultimately won the nomination.”

Dan Brady, a state representative from Bloomington, has run on a platform emphasizing technological upgrades within the Secretary of State’s Office, and says he will address other areas where financial savings and improved services can go hand-in-hand. “We have to look at somewhere around $10.5 million that we spend on leasing 96 driver’s services facilities,” he said.

The Department of Healthcare and Family Services has chosen eight organizations in five service areas, which will serve as partners in providing these new services to seniors in their region once they pass a stringent application with federal partners as well. The five service areas are West Chicago, South Chicago, Southern Cook County, Peoria and East St. Louis.

At a virtual court hearing last week, attorneys representing the child said she was sleeping on a couch in that office, which doesn’t have showers or the specialized school services that she needs given her mental health issues.

“This updated guidance from the CDC acknowledges the importance of in-person learning by allowing schools to more aptly adjust to changes within their own communities,” Illinois State Superintendent of Education Carmen Ayala said.

U.S. Rep. Mary Miller said the measure should be called the “Increase Inflation Act.” In a statement opposing the measure, Miller said the bill will “benefit the Chinese Communist Party because China mines the minerals and manufactures the solar panels and windmills that House Democrats want to subsidize.”

Few readers will need “What Next, Chicago?’s” subtitle, “Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son,” to grasp that journalist Matt Rosenberg is angry about conditions in the city where he grew up. During almost 30 years there he experienced Chicago as “a celebration and a calamity.” But coming home after the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots, Rosenberg encountered little worth celebrating and much that’s calamitous.

State’s Attorney Eric Weis says judges will still have the option to hold people for certain serious crimes, but that ending cash bail removes an incentive for people to come court. He questions the unintended consequences of the law.

The school bus driver shortage that was prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting some Illinois school districts with higher costs covered by taxpayers.

Increases in the cost of homeownership have vastly outpaced the growth in incomes during the past several years, making housing the least affordable it has been since before the housing market collapse of 2008. Illinoisans will face more financial hurdles if Amendment 1 passes this November.

Illinois residents have begun to see the results of the state’s $1.83 billion family relief plan, which includes the temporary suspension of the 1% sales tax on groceries, a temporary reduction in sales tax as part of a back to school shopping holiday, and a delay in a scheduled gas tax increase. Income tax rebate checks are being issued as well.

After years of operating in Illinois, three major companies—Boeing, Caterpillar and Citadel—are moving their headquarters out of the state. In this video, WSJ looks at the economic and political implications.

“While Democrats and some in the media will try to paint a rosy picture about a few provisions in this legislation, the bill will have broad reaching implications for every sector of our economy. Make no mistake – this massive spending bill will raise energy costs, kill innovation for future health cures, diminish opportunities for American jobs, harm small businesses and raise taxes.”