“Safety is the exact opposite of what that bill’s gonna provide for the people in the state of Illinois,” one resident named Warren said. “It will provide safety for our criminals.” The lifelong Illinoian is trying to flee the crime-ridden state. “It’s falling apart, and it’s not gonna get any better. The entire state is gonna end up looking like Chicago before too long, where every other weekend there’s a mass shooting.”

“It seems like every member of Congress has a defense plant in their district, whether it’s submarines, aircraft, or something else,” said U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood. ” I think if you can’t pick and choose where we cut back on our defense budget, I think you have to go across the board.” He said 70% of government spending is on entitlements, and Democrats must be willing to accept cuts to those.

Bryan Soady, associate executive director of Governmental Relations with the Illinois Association of School Boards, said there have been local referendums on this proposal that have been defeated. “This is a mandate that we think will require volunteer, elected school boards to force this on taxpayers who have stated they don’t want it,” Soady said.

Gov. JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and other state and local officials are seeking the help of federal funding for the Chicago Hub Improvement Program, a proposed series of projects that will cost taxpayers about $1.1 billion. The state is seeking a $872.8 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration’s Federal and State Partnership Program to make Chicago’s Union Station the central hub for an expanded railway traveling throughout the Midwest.

“The power teachers unions wield in Illinois is well known, documented by both conservative and liberal news outlets alike. And public sector unions more generally are catered to every single day by the Illinois state government, with bloated pensions, unprecedented raises, and acquiescence to political demands. The idea that teachers union pressure was not at least a significant reason for the demise of the program borders on the absurd.”

The recommendations being codified include the implementation of a Children’s Adversity Index, which requires the Illinois State Board of Education to develop an index to measure community childhood trauma exposure in children ages 3 to 19. Also, the bill implements training workshops for teachers which focus on trauma-responsive learning environments, and it establishes a committee to make recommendations on the incorporation of trauma-related requirements to the professional educator licensure requirements.

The report found that Illinois has the third-largest retail cannabis market in the country, trailing just California and Michigan. The Headset report found, “The high vertical integration coupled with the small brand selection likely contributes to a situation where prices are allowed to stay relatively high.”

Jim Dey: “The (Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability)’s monthly report released Wednesday cites a ‘spate of good economic news’ in July, including a healthy employment picture, lower inflation and growth in state and corporate income taxes.”

A Hyatt Hotels heir worth over $3 billion and the country’s richest officeholder, he’s spent hundreds of millions on Democratic candidates and causes (including his own) in recent elections. His status is thus politically complicated as both crucial ally to Joe Biden and potential successor if things go awry.

In a metaphor of sorts for the state of the party — and, for that matter, the nation — Illinois Republicans are all over the map in their reaction to the indictment of former President Donald Trump for allegedly conspiring to nullify the results of the 2020 presidential election and claim a second term in the White House.

The bill amends the Illinois Act on Aging and will require an intake coordinator for Will County, in this pilot program, to be responsible for connecting grandparents raising grandchildren to relevant resources and services provided by state agencies. In Illinois, more than 70,000 grandparents across the state are the primary caregivers for their grandchildren.

“To the Left, citizenship is meaningless. Illinois is now letting illegal aliens become police officers. In Florida, we took action to combat the harms of Biden’s border crisis,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote. Pritzker fired back, attacking DeSantis’s intelligence for allegedly misinterpreting the intention of the bill. “This man isn’t smart enough to be president,” Pritzker said.

The people who lost it this month were only among the first group asked to prove they still qualified for Medicaid; the state will send letters to new groups of Medicaid recipients each month, asking them to prove their eligibility. The federal government has estimated that about 700,000 people in Illinois may lose Medicaid coverage by the time the process is complete.

“Data from the Illinois Supreme Court Pretrial Practices Implementation Task Force shows that counties collected more than $80 million in bond money in 2021…For a convicted felony sex offense, 31% of the fee is applied to the Children’s Advocacy Centers Program, the Crime Victim Compensation Fund, the fund for sexual assault victims and the Domestic Violence Shelters Fund. For a convicted misdemeanor sex offense, 32% of the fee is applied to those same funds.”