A particularly good insight into Pritzker’s strategy brain, Anne Caprera.

“Illinois’ trade unions, led by Local 150 of the Operating Engineers Union, have been looking at this topic since before the election. While no legislation has yet been drafted, they said they are gaming situations about what would happen if the feds repealed the Davis-Bacon Act, which sets the prevailing wage on government contracts. They’re also looking at creating a state version of the National Labor Relations Act, which is the basis for all federal labor laws on organizing, collective bargaining and the right to strike.”

The referendum seeking to raise the Champaign County sales tax failed with 66 percent of the community voting to reject the measure. The complaint against the county for promoting the measure also failed.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign committee spent $5,500 on churches in 2023 and 2024, including $3,700 for “GospelFest” for the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church on the South Side last year, and $1,200 at the Lighthouse Church of All Nations in Alsip this year for what’s described in elections records as “event production.”

“The work that I do now as governor is work that I love doing … In the wake of the Tuesday election, I think back to my first days in office, my first two years in office, when Donald Trump was president, and we had to defend Illinois against an awful lot of policies that the Trump administration was imposing that we needed to make sure we were addressing,” Pritzker said. “And so I think that work is going to continue. And I don’t have anything to announce today. And I have no plans for anything else,” he said of

Voters also voiced anti-tax sentiment in at least eight south suburbs which have been hit by high property tax assessments – Burnham, Calumet Park, Crestwood, Posen, Riverdale, Robbins, South Chicago Heights and Tinley Park. Residents supported advisory referendums asking Illinois to increase state funding for schools, and thereby lower property taxes.

Two days after the polls closed, the Sangamon County Recorder’s race remains undecided. County Clerk Don Gray says,“There’s a mechanism, by law, for contests of which any candidate that had lost within, under a five-point margin, has the opportunity to be able to file within 5 days what we call a discovery recount.”

“It’s (Illinois’s) actually in the third most restrictive quartile that we find and it looks like a lot of that is coming from the group sizes and educational minimum,” said researcher Anna Flowers. “There is a really big impact on cost and a negligible impact on quality when it comes to things like group sizes or staff-child ratios.”

“The No. 1 issue regardless of race is the economy,” Ramirez said. However, she doesn’t think the numbers are indicative of a cultural shift to the right. “People are asking themselves: How do I take care of my family? How do I afford health care? And how do I make sure that my kids have it better than I did when I came to this country?”

Jim Dey: “There was a definite warning sign in the commission’s October report. The state’s big three revenue sources — the personal and corporate income taxes and sales tax — are becoming a source of worry.”

“To anyone who intends to come take away the freedom and opportunity and dignity of Illinoisans: I would remind you that a happy warrior is still a warrior,” he continued. “You come for my people, you come through me.”