The Illinois House advanced three measures to the Senate, including one which would provide incentives for the development of affordable housing projects that incorporate urban and suburban gardening programs. Also passed Thursday was Senate Bill 1879, which would provide electric suppliers access to personal data stored on a costumer’s smart meter.

A report by Health Care and Family Services estimates for 2024, there will be an additional 108,400 undocumented immigrants needing care, far exceeding earlier estimates. The report also showed that in 2020, the Health Care Benefits for Immigrant Seniors program exceeded its appropriation in the first month of implementation.

If the legislation becomes law, members would be given several options on what to do with covered assets they own. Members who continue holding or trading covered assets would be penalized at least the same amount of the members’ monthly pay or 10% of the value of each asset violation.

Hannah Hill with the National Foundation for Gun Rights said the outcome of the Naperville case is paramount. “It doesn’t matter at the end of the day what level of government is taking away your rights. If you can’t function as a business, you can’t function and you’re going to lose that business. And, that’s exactly what the constitution is in place to prevent.”

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker were named the 32nd and 34th most popular U.S. governors, respectively, in a poll by national research organization Morning Consult. Parson and Pritzker each received a 52% approval rating from voters within their states. The poll adds that Parson has around a 36% disapproval rating and Prtizker around 44% in that regard.

A bill would allow colleges to receive grants to address student hunger if they meet requirements like creating a hunger task force that meets at least three times a year, having a staff member designated to assist students sign up for food stamps, and making programming for Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Any Illinois higher education institution is eligible.

The Driehaus resources will enable the BGA’s Illinois Answers Project newsroom to provide reporting resources to newsrooms in cities across Illinois—essentially “embed” work on investigative and solutions-focused stories.

More than half of U.S. states have passed measures against the teaching of critical race theory – for example in schools or government employee trainings. Almost all states that haven’t yet passed any such measures have seen them proposed on the state level. Illinois is one of a very few states with no finalized laws or directives on any level.

“Winning nearly half of the elections it participated in is not ‘losing big,’ especially when readers consider that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Democrats, and their teachers’ union allies in both Wisconsin and Illinois outspent conservative challengers by hundreds of thousands of dollars. They also got a helping hand from corporate media, which gave supporters of left-wing school board members plenty of TV time to help protect eligible seats from pro-parent candidates. “

Jim Dey: “Unions are about trust among the members and their elected officials, and violations like (former union president Byron) Clemons’ provide useful ammunition to those who object to union power… AFSCME Council 31’s membership has fallen from 65,000 in 2017 to roughly 53,000 in 2022 as a consequence of a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that forced union dues are unconstitutional.”