The law, which he asserts is a “clear violation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution” and also of the Illinois state constitution, “places (McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally and other prosecutors) in an impossible ethical quandary of enforcing new, unconstitutional criminal offenses against citizens who are lawfully exercising their constitutional rights.”

The metro areas which had the largest over-the-year percentage increases in total nonfarm jobs were the Lake-Kenosha IL/WI Metro, the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island IA-IL MSA, the Rockford MSA, and the Chicago Metro Division.

In its filing Thursday, Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office argued that Cunnington’s decision was “flawed,” arguing that the state constitution does not require Illinois “to maintain a system of monetary bail.” Raoul’s office also cited dictionary definitions of bail going back to before the United States was a country that never connected bail with the act of putting down a cash deposit.

The base in-state tuition for undergraduates starting next school year at the Urbana-Champaign campus will increase to $12,712 a year, a $238 increase. The base in-state tuition for undergraduates starting next year at the Chicago campus will be $11,178 a year, a $208 increase.

Chris Davis of the Illinois chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses said that actions in Springfield directly affect small businesses. “We are ranked second worst in the nation and we still continue to pass mandates and taxes on to employers that makes it more difficult for job creators to create positions for workers.”

According to the National School Choice Awareness Foundation, Illinois offers tax deductions for most students in private or home schools, and state-run scholarships for students under a certain income level. The state does not, however, offer a full-time, statewide online public school option, unlike a majority of U.S. states.

Since the ban was enacted, at least seven lawsuits have been filed in state or federal court seeking to overturn the law on various grounds.

Among them, Jasper County Sheriff Brandon Francis said his officers would not enforce the law, saying his oath is to the constitution and not to the governor. “I don’t have any fear from not enforcing this. When I took my oath as sheriff, the second line in my oath was to uphold the constitution of the United States of America.”

And even though parts of the bill received criticism, many lawmakers who opposed those elements said they felt compelled to vote for it anyway because other parts of the bill were too important. Those necessary provisions included enabling certain rural hospitals to draw upon more federal funds, distributing federal disaster aid to ambulance services impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and extending the deadline for a shuttered hospital in Chicago’s west suburbs to reopen under new ownership.

Since 2010, CTU has funneled $2.05 million to candidates running for the Illinois House of Representatives and an additional $528,000 to Senate candidates. That includes more than $1.2 million to 89 out of 175 current lawmakers2 in the Illinois General Assembly.

“Consolidating the cases will prevent unnecessary duplication of litigation in four different cases, promoting judicial economy. And as each case is at the initial stages of litigation, no party will be prejudiced by the consolidation,” ISP’s motion says.

“What about the blue states, then? Pritzker shows they’re happy to continue using the College Board as a route to leftist national dominance of our education system.”

“When lawyers turn up to make arcane legal arguments that invite death, agony and the lifelong pain of loved ones left behind, let’s hope the courts begin to say, no, that is not what America is all about. Let’s hope lawmakers at every level seek sensible new laws that will continue to make it harder for people to shoot others with guns.”

“Over the last decade, American states have increasingly sorted themselves into two groups. Often, these are described as high-tax, highly regulated places such as California, New York, and Illinois, on the one hand, and low-tax, less regulated states such as Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and Indiana, on the other.”

“With the help of Democratic supermajorities in the legislature, Pritzker has passed laws that urban and suburban voters love and rural voters hate — on guns, on abortion, on the environment. His success has deepened the already deep divide between Chicagoland and Downstate, reawakening a secession movement that has inspired 27 Southern Illinois counties to pass resolutions in favor of forming a 51st state, so they won’t have to be governed by Pritzker and them big city libruls.”