The act prohibits individuals from knowingly distributing digital replicas that were created without the consent of the individual.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul is a member of the bipartisan, 51-attorney general Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force, which has been investigating these providers. On top of this, in 2022, Raoul joined a coalition of 33 attorneys general in filing a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the anti-robocall provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

“I’m open to a dialogue with him,” Gov. JB Pritzker said of Tom Homan. “I will say that he does not have the authority to do the things that he has talked about. Being a border czar is not an official position.” Pritzker said violent criminal non-citizens should be deported and never allowed, but he will stand up for asylum seekers and other undocumented residents of the state.

The complaint seeks penalties and infrastructure improvements to fix the city’s failure to operate its sewer system in compliance with the Clean Water Act. City officials face financial challenges, including overdue pension payments to its police officers and firefighters. Decades of efforts by city and state leaders have failed to fix the city’s financial issues.

So far in 2024, said Amy Williams, senior legal advisor in the secretary of state’s office, the Secretary of State Police Department has responded to 17 threats to the Capitol, nearly twice as many as any other year since 2018. There have also been threats directed at individual lawmakers. In September, a man was arrested for threatening to assassinate Rep. Jeff Keicher.

Chicago is widely known as a sanctuary city, because it has laws in place that prohibit local officials from helping federal immigration agents enforce immigration law. Illinois has had a similar law in place since 2017 called the TRUST Act. Some suburban townships also have their own versions, including Evanston and Oak Park.

The plant will capture carbon dioxide produced at a CWIP plant to prevent it from being released as a greenhouse gas. Unlike sequestration projects that inject CO2 underground, this process will utilize the gas above ground.

The law, which went into effect in July, grants noncitizens regardless of immigration status the ability to obtain a standardized state driver’s license replacing the Temporary Visitor Driver’s License, which displayed a purple banner and the words “Not Valid For Identification.” Now, a standard red banner reads “Federal Limits Apply.”

Among hundreds of new laws taking effect in 2025 across the state is HB 4592, which allows the Secretary of State to issue mobile ID cards and driver’s licenses. The mobile ID’s will be issued “in addition to” standard licenses, but not in replace of. The Secretary of State’s office will also be required to offer applicants the option to be issued an eight-year driver’s license within the next two years under a new law taking effect on Jan. 1, 2025.

Jim Dey: “The state has been wrestling with the consequences of reckless pension funding for roughly 30 years. … For the 2025-26 fiscal year beginning July 1, the state is expected to contribute $11.7 billion to pensions, roughly 20 percent of its anticipated $50 billion-plus spending plan. Gov. JB Pritzker has pledged that the state will meet its pension obligations, and that’s why he’s desperate for more revenue.”