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Two neighbors said there could have been 1,000 people at the late night rager that began Saturday night and dragged into Sunday. The party was organized by promoter and TikTok star who goes by JRoy, who has amassed over 600,000 followers on the platform for throwing rager-style parties on the West Side.
Gov. JB Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, Sunday rattled off his beliefs in universal healthcare, free public education, democracy and opposition to “MAGA Republicans” as evidence that he is a legit Democrat. “It does not matter what your income level is. What matters is what your values are. And that’s what makes me a Democrat,” the ultra-wealthy pol contended.
Loves Park Mayor Greg Jury says video game revenue is very important since the city doesn’t collect property taxes. “It goes into our general funds, and it helps pay for our street repairs, our police, our fire,” said Mayor Jury.
“Democrats didn’t raise a stink when they gerrymandered Illinois following the 2020 census to limit Republican electoral success. Nor did they protest when Nevada Democrats did the same in search of a veto-proof supermajority in Carson City. Somehow, only Republican gerrymandering is deemed an offense to democracy.”
“You had a Black woman and a Black man, myself, who were running the political department,” Johnson said in response to members’ questions about the union’s financial reporting. “Don’t you think if we had done anything illegal, don’t you think that there are forces that would love to destroy and tear us down?“ At the time of the event, Johnson was employed as a CTU “legislative coordinator” and serving as a Cook County commissioner.
“So let’s recap. Pritzker had just declared gerrymandering a threat to democracy. He followed up by making a joke of his own unparalleled gerrymandering.”
“The Illinois State Fair, which began Thursday in Springfield, is typically the kickoff of the new political season. But this year serious Republican candidates in districts now held by Democrats are outnumbered not just by cows but maybe even the one made of butter. Party representatives tell us that donors can read maps with impossible odds like anyone else and thus no longer see much point in supporting Republican efforts in Illinois.”
While Gov. JB Pritzker last week repeatedly said he and his allies in the General Assembly might pursue gerrymandering Illinois’ congressional districts to benefit Democratic candidates even more than they already are, legislators on both sides of the aisle doubt it’ll happen. They don’t question Pritzker’s desire to wrest congressional power from Republicans to counter the GOP’s effort to build its House majority by redrawing district maps in Texas. They just don’t think it’s possible to widen the Democrat’s 14-3 majority in Illinois’ congressional delegation through mapmaking.
President Donald Trump in May signed a memorandum offering his support to Michigan and Illinois for a $1 billion effort aimed at preventing invasive Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. While Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is an outspoken proponent of the project and has remained in close contact with Trump about it, White House officials say their calls to Gov. JB Pritzker haven’t been returned.
Johnson is trying to close a $1.12 billion deficit in the fiscal year 2026 budget. Part of how he wants to close the gap is by keeping about $73 million the grocery tax is expected to generate for the city in 2026.
The bill the Bears want to see passed would freeze property taxes for large-scale construction projects like the stadium. Chicago Bears president Kevin Warren maintains the bill could create 56,000 jobs during construction and 9,000 permanent jobs.
In her ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland wrote, “The Court does not doubt that Plaintiff felt trapped in his car and in fact could not easily go where he wanted to. … But to state claim for false imprisonment, the confinement must be ‘involuntary;’ it is not enough for a plaintiff to voluntarily remain in a place even if they believe they are justified in doing so.”
Northwestern was one of 32 elite colleges and universities named in a Friday lawsuit that alleged the schools exploit a “core misrepresentation” of early decision admissions policies to drive up attendance costs. The class action complaint, which was filed in a Massachusetts federal court, claims that schools violate the Sherman Act, an 1890 antitrust law, by cooperating with one another and mandating their early decision admits to pull applications from other institutions.
Democratic strategist Julian Epstein: “I think they don’t have the moral authority, and there’s a lot of pearl-clutching going on… “The Democrats don’t have clean hands here. You look at states like Massachusetts, New Jersey[…] Illinois, California, and Democrats have effectively gerrymandered Republicans out of existence.”
Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) said he hoped lawmakers would pass plans to help lower utility costs before the end of session. Halbrook told reporters Thursday that the General Assembly needs to develop energy policies that prioritize consumers instead of special interests.
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