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After first asserting it did not turn over personal information about city workers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Law Department is now hedging on how exactly the administration responded to a federal subpoena for employment eligibility forms.
“If you don’t want your kids learning social studies, U.S. history from people who hate our country, if you don’t want them learning from people who think your children belong to them then you should be empowered to make different choices,” Empower Illinois’ Jonathan Greenberg told The Center Square Tuesday.
An advocate for the Illinois business community says lawsuit-challenged legislation approved by the General Assembly could cost the state dearly.
Over the past 10 years, women have held fewer than one in 10 construction jobs.
“Chicago’s Brandon Johnson isn’t America’s worst mayor for nothing. He works hard at it. Consider his veto Friday of a teen curfew ordinance that would have let Chicago police disperse late-night gatherings or “teen takeovers” that get out of hand.”
“The choice in front of us is whether we aim to fulfill the unfinished work of the Confederacy – as Donald Trump has chosen to do – or the unfinished work of the Freedmen’s Bureau,” explains Davis Gates.
Although hemp legislation has stalled in the Illinois General Assembly, a move to prohibit intoxicating hemp-derived tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) products advanced in Congress this week.
A possible merger deal between Chicago’s Northern Trust and Bank of New York Mellon raises the prospect of another devastating loss of a homegrown institution—this time one with more than 135 years in the city it helped build into the financial powerhouse of the Midwest.
With Chicago staring down a massive budget shortfall, deteriorating city services, and rising taxes, the mayor might treat public dollars with at least a modicum of care. But Brandon Johnson had other plans for Juneteenth. He didn’t just pander — he dropped a double whammy of race-driven spending priorities that stunned many Chicagoans.
“The governor has considered only 5% of the $6 billion in progressive taxes offered by the alliance to address the tremendous funding gaps for medical, education and transit services that working families across Illinois depend on every day. Even a one-year stopgap could prevent public transit cuts. Longer term, we must revisit the progressive income tax amendment despite the rhetoric of reform-fixated elites.”
“Two credible presidential campaigns launched from Chicago would inevitably put the city into the center of the national conversation, and the history of the rise of Barack Obama teaches us that we always do better when we land there, even if dirty laundry inevitably gets
A new abortion business in Chicago is now committing “all-trimester” abortions, and said it will carry them out for “any reason” up to 34 weeks — despite state law allegedly restricting abortion after “viability.”
Chicago is not as bad off as New York was in 1975, you might think, even if Mayor Johnson has proven more incompetent than anyone expected. Can Chicago’s current and future leadership learn anything from the 1975 rescue of New York City?
The 33-page document outlines 2025 legislative activity and the chamber’s engagement in seven core areas: employment, energy, environment, healthcare, infrastructure, tax and technology.
“With so many ideas for how Illinois should be run and so little attention to the cost, there is little surprise Illinois set a new record for spending with the fiscal year 2026 budget: $55.2 billion.”
Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new law Friday to make a series of changes to the Prisoner Review Board after it released a man who would go on to commit murder, leading to intense scrutiny in Springfield.
As the clouted daughter of now-convicted political power broker Mike Madigan, Lisa Madigan has caused her own damage to Chicago.
After SB 19 was signed by Pritzker Friday, McClure and state Sen. Jason Plummer, R-Edwardsville, released a joint statement saying the enactment of the bill is driven by the governor to keep activists happy rather than prioritize the safety of constituents.
An attempt by the U.S. Department of Transportation to withhold infrastructure funding to states resisting the Trump administration’s immigration restrictions has been thwarted by a federal judge.The states listed as plaintiffs opposing what’s been dubbed the “Duffy Directive” include California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Wisconsin as well as Nevada and Vermont, which have Republican governors.
A city ordinance that went into effect last July “has transformed the lives of so many people. It re-affirms that everyone in Chicago gets to earn a fair wage,” Johnson said at a news conference at TNT Rooftop Restaurant in Austin. “We’re not going to turn back. We’re going to continue to raise the wage of workers.”
CTU has a history of denying access to charter schools for Chicago families and trying to limit them statewide. The union’s newest collective bargaining agreement with CPS advances that assault.
“We have a number of concerns about this development. One, it will push us out of the neighborhood, raise the rent and property taxes in South Chicago and South Shore and cause gentrification just like the Obama Center is doing; it will not have jobs for residents,” said Dawn Johnson, a member of Southside Together.
Illinois government employees who unsuccessfully challenged the state’s Covid-19 vaccine mandates on religious grounds failed to convince the US Supreme Court to take a look at their dispute Monday.
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