“If instead Plaintiff States choose not to comply with the President’s blatantly unconstitutional attempt to legislate-by-fiat, they will suffer severe cuts in federal funding that will throw the national electoral system into disarray. The Framers carefully crafted a federal compact that protects the States from this Hobson’s choice,” the lawsuit states.

“Teachers’ unions such as those pushing the anti-home schooling bill in Illinois hate competition, be it from private schools or home-schooling. These unions don’t care about children. They want power.”

One measure, Senate Bill 94, would create the Data Center Construction by Foreign Adversaries Act, which aims to prevent foreign companies from constructing data centers in Illinois and putting a strain on the power grid.

State Sen. Doris Turner said local voters wanted to recall the sheriff after the police-involved shooting of Sonya Massey in Springfield last year, but the Sangamon County Board sought clarity from legislators on whether it had that ability. Sheriff Jack Campbell ended up retiring early due to public pressure.

House Bill 2827 would regulate both homeschool families and private schools in Illinois. Its extensive provisions have generated historic opposition.

“While leaders in about 50 towns in Illinois so far have decided to impose their own 1 percent grocery tax starting in 2026, when Bensenville voters were given a choice they clearly didn’t want a tax on their need to eat.”

State Rep. Travis Weaver wants to entice more recruits to stay home by exempting up to $100,000 in name, image and likeness earnings from the state income tax. To him, it’s more about helping the mid-major schools in the state such as Bradley, Illinois State, Western Illinois and Loyola Chicago than the Big Ten’s Illinois and Northwestern. “If those schools are just a little bit more successful and you get that extra 10% bump in applications more periodically, they can help Peoria, Ill., Bloomington, Ill., Macomb, Ill.,” said Weaver, a Republican from Peoria.

The former Illinois governor has agreed to lobby on behalf of the Republic of Srpska, a Serb-majority territory in Bosnia and Herzegovina long mired in the bitter ethnic tensions of the region. Dubbed “the Bosnian Bear,” for his physique and crude antics, Srpska’s president, Milorad Dodik, has fled to Moscow.

His attorneys claimed in a motion that the trial judge made a series of errors, including allowing prosecutors to present as evidence the now-infamous wiretap recordings in which Madigan said some ComEd contractors “made out like bandits.”

Illinois has long been a bastion for homeschool freedom because of a 1950 Illinois Supreme Court ruling in People v. Levisen, in which the court found that homeschooling falls under the private school law in Illinois. But the new proposal would essentially reverse that decision, with parents no longer able to homeschool their children at home under the private school law.

A bill would create a centralized website, where a graduating student could apply to all public Illinois colleges with just one application. State Sen. Christopher Belt said this is just another policy from lawmakers to keep Illinoisan to stay in the state.

As a result of the pause, 900 workers at the company’s Warren Stamping and Sterling Stamping plants in Michigan, as well as its Indiana Transmission Plant, Kokomo Transmission Plant and Kokomo Casting Plant, are being laid off.

“While the concept may seem ambitious and complex, this bill does not enact the transfer itself, but rather creates a structured framework for thorough analysis and planning,” said Indiana state Sen. Scott Baldwin. “It should be important to note, (Illinoisans) initiated this conversation. They have all asked to be a part of this.”