The president and Illinois governor have had a tense relationship their entire political careers.

Illinois Senate Minority Leader John Curran pointed to a joint statement he released with Senate President Don Harmon last month. “We are here to tell you the Illinois Senate is united in wholeheartedly condemning violence from any person in any circumstance. We are committed to working together to ensure that people throughout our state know that Illinois is a safe place to take part in our democratic systems without fear,” the statement said.

“We can’t be the only Americans fed up with seeing video after video of antifa-types interfering with federal law enforcement, of mobs forming around ICE officers making arrests, of ‘protesters’ confronting men and women who are just doing their jobs. The Democrats could rein them in, but they won’t, and that makes them co-conspirators in a slow-motion rebellion that is picking up speed.”

A plan in Springfield would allow more people to get into the Homestead program. This program allows seniors in Illinois to freeze their property tax rate. However, that exemption only applies to people who earned $65,000 or less a year. This bill would increase that exemption to $80,000.

“Public institutions, and the University of Illinois is a publicly funded institution, are subject to constitutional restraints on things like racial discrimination and affirmative action, and those things apply because of the Equal Protection Clause of the federal Constitution,” said Reilly Stephens, of the Liberty Justice Center,. “That doesn’t apply to a private university. The trick is that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also applies to institutions that take federal funds, so virtually every university in the country is bound by those same rules as a condition of receiving federal money.”

When steel and manufacturing jobs dried up over the last several decades in Venice, the town lost two-thirds of the population, followed by its only grocery store and only school. Now, the Illinois Grocery Initiative is funding a new grocery store in Venice through a $2.4 million state grant. It’s set to begin construction next month, along with a medical clinic and affordable housing. A new school has already been built.

The Chicago-based appellate judges did not sign their order or explain their ruling Friday, but it affirms the decision from Madigan’s trial judge in August, who wrote that the ex-speaker’s “entire motion rides on routine, and meritless” objections and had “not come close” to meeting the “high burden” he’d need to argue to stay out of prison. “As such, he clings to false hope,” U.S. District Judge John Blakey wrote.

“I am not aware of a situation where the National Guard has been deployed under this statute in another state where that state’s governor has rejected it,” University of Houston Law Center professor Chris Mirasola said.

The challenge centers around Illinois state Rep. Mike Bost, who sued the Illinois Board of Elections over a law allowing the state to count mail-in ballots marked on Election Day as much as 14 days after an election. Bost filed the lawsuit in 2022, arguing Congress sets the time for federal elections and the state’s mail-in ballot counting procedures go against that policy.

“This is not the first time Trump has tried to have a Black man unjustly arrested,” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responded on social media. “I’m not going anywhere.”

Illinois’ state government can force all health insurers regulated by the state to provide abortion coverage without violating the religious rights of Christian abortion opponents – including churches – because they can still purchase health insurance elsewhere, an Illinois state appeals court has ruled.

Employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections are using paid time off to stay home during work hours and then coming in later the same day to work overtime, according to a report from the state auditor released on Sept. 23.

Pritzker’s remarks come just one week after he said it was dangerous for the Trump Administration to label Democrats as “fascists.”

A lawsuit filed by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul underscores the risks to Chicago’s economy and finances. Among the areas where the deployments may harm Chicago finances are tourism and hospitality, core planks of the city’s economy and significant revenue sources for Chicago; police overtime costs; and investor perceptions of a downward slide, even if such perceptions aren’t rooted in reality.

Pritzker also said he has not had any conversations with his staff or other Democratic governors regarding a so-called soft secession, a political and legal theory that has grown during Trump’s second term in which Democratic states would gradually withdraw their cooperation with the federal government, including withholding financial support, without formally leaving the Union.

“Our message to JB Pritzker: Get out of your mansion and see Chicago,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “If JB Pritzker actually walked the streets of his own city, he would see domestic terrorists and violent rioters attacking police officers and the scourge of violent crime as a direct result of his own policies.”