The Illinois expansion will happen at the company’s headquarters campus in Abbott Park, according to company spokesperson Maddie King. The medical giant also has offices at Willis Tower.

“Take New Buffalo, Michigan, for example….”

Illinois’ 30 percent tax credit on qualified expenditures (with an added 15 percent bonus for hiring from economically disadvantaged areas) is giving producers a reason to set up shop in Chicago. Crucially, unlike many competing states, Illinois has no cap on its film tax credit, making it attractive to projects of all scales.

Taxpayers are paying nearly $1,600 more than they were just seven years ago and getting fewer of the services they expect or that improve the quality of life in Illinois. Still, the Illinois budget expands.

Illinois is using a similar playbook to the one being used by Maine in its ongoing feud with the Trump administration over the issue, citing the state’s human rights laws as a barrier to banning biological males from girls sports. IHSA Board President Dan Tully wrote that the IHSA finds itself in “an untenable position” as the organization seeks clarity on conflicting directions.

The Illinois Senate has passed legislation to expand freedom-of-the-press protections for public media on college campuses, despite concerns about lawsuit immunity.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 21 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief supporting an effort to block erratic and unlawful layoffs and mismanagement at the Social Security Administration (SSA) by Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek and the Department of Government Efficiency.