Darby Hills’ background includes experience as an arbitrator, mediator and Cook County assistant state’s attorney, focusing her efforts on child welfare. She also worked as a labor and employment attorney at Jackson Lewis LLP on behalf of corporations.

“Springfield has never been viewed as a hotbed of civic reform, and (Gov. JB) Pritzker’s fellow Democrats who control supermajorities in the House and Senate have done little to change that image. Reform proposals offered by both Democrats and Republicans often are shunted aside, including during the height of the Madigan scandal.”

“Between Fermilab and Argonne National Lab, our top-tier universities, and the new Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, our state is poised to be a global hub as quantum computing takes center stage. I want to keep the momentum going by supporting the Department of Energy, and in turn, Illinois’ quantum researchers, in pioneering quantum technologies that advance computing, security, and connectivity,” said U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin in a statement.

Year-round sales of E15 have been long sought by the biofuel industry and corn farmers, who would benefit from the increased market.

“Nothing in the Nation’s Report Card is reason for Illinois to celebrate. Claiming otherwise diverts attention away from the urgent need to find solutions to failing schools.”

The city of Rosemont passed an ordinance in December 2023 to prevent the use of local hotels to house illegals. Several other suburbs, including Schaumburg and Elk Grove Village, passed similar ordinances that would fine hotels for allowing guests to stay longer than 60 days. And Grundy officials held a 2020 referendum on migration and found 64 percent of voters were wary of sanctuary laws. This suspicion was validated when Chicago began sending busses of illegals into their area and just let them off without any plans and no communication with Grundy officials.

Jim Dey: “Madigan was disciplined, hardworking, tenacious and utterly ruthless in building his hugely effective legislative and political organization. He also was creative. What other politician would use favor-seeking private entities — ComEd and AT&T-Illinois — as a source of no-show patronage jobs for his political loyalists? That ploy worked until it didn’t. That’s why Madigan was all-powerful until he wasn’t.”

As people from the city and Robinson Engineering, the professional firm hired to assist, reach out to residents in designated areas, they find that some people are reluctant to come to the door. Waukegan Mayor Ann Taylor said she has concerns about the federally funded, forgivable loan program.

The Soybean Innovation Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus does not test the virus at its laboratory. But it does oversee a network of more than 100 technical soybean experts from across 24 countries, and it does work in 44 countries. The U.S. Department of Agriculture uses the lab’s network to test for disease resistance.

“Illinois and Indiana are two great examples of where elected officials are taking the most extreme possible position — total rejection and total acceptance — despite the electorate in both states preferring a more moderate stance,” said Sean Westwood, associate professor in the department of government at Dartmouth College and director of the Polarization Research Lab, an academic research group and resource hub.

Matt Paprocki, of the Illinois Policy Institute: “Workers are struggling because private businesses are struggling. The only industry not struggling? The government. Illinois state government is the single-largest employer in the state, and the federal government is the second largest. Taxpayers and businesses, on the other hand, are subjected to skyrocketing property taxes and state tax burdens to cover the growing number of state employees and worsening pension crisis. It’s time lawmakers made it easier for businesses to operate in Illinois.”

“These were the fetid nutrients of the bi-partisan Combine. The corrupt journos. The Tribune was the Combine’s flagship paper, but the Sun Times had them too. And a fat drunken blogger in Springfield who also took care of Combine needs. This was deeply offensive to me. Even more so because of their supposed “journalistic oaths” that they took and prattled on and on about. Once there were Republican and Democrat water boys and girls, but as the partisanship changed, so did they, carrying water for Soros Marxists and corporate pimps with the same pail. And they put their mouth on

Between January and December 2024, Illinois collected over $800 million from video gaming machines. In Springfield alone, businesses netted over $52 million, with the city receiving more than $2.5 million.