Laying out the long, hostile history between Trump and Chicago’s leaders—including Trump’s “Chipocalypse Now” Truth Social post, which Pritzker took as a threat of war—the complaint asserts that the decision to deploy troops “was made long before recent events” of “small, primarily peaceful” protests outside the Broadview ICE facility in the suburbs of Chicago.

“So, how did the governor convince the politically powerful road-building unions like Operating Engineers Local 150 to go along with diverting sales taxes and earned interest from their precious Road Fund to mass transit? A toll increase.”

“It’s about $3 million a month worth of benefits that would be flowing into Champaign County. And that means that, you know, grocery stores and other businesses won’t be selling as much, and that’s going to hurt their bottom lines,” said Elizabeth Powers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor.

“Who wants to be the pride and joy of a state that loses businesses in droves and ranked third among all states in population loss from 2023-24, anyway? It’s an anti-business atmosphere in Illinois and the leaders need to be held accountable for that situation, whether it’s regarding industry or a pro football team.”

Illinois now claims the right to dictate where federal authority can be exercised and makes federal authorities liable for violating specified state safe zones. “Good luck with that.”

“But this deal further handicaps Chicago’s desperate need to jump-start economic growth … To achieve the RTA’s request for $1.5 billion in additional revenue, the agency is expected to approve a 0.25 percent increase in the Chicago area’s sales tax, which would raise that levy in the city itself to an embarrassingly high 10.5 percent.”

The proposal, set to be signed into law Nov. 6 by Gov. JB Pritzker, introduces new layers of bureaucracy that threaten to increase energy prices and undercut the benefits of nuclear expansion.

The bill is projected to cost the state $52.7 billion across the three largest state-run retirement systems for teachers, state employees and state universities. The bill would also cost billions of dollars to the other state-run systems – for Judges and General Assembly members – and all other local pension systems except the system for the Chicago Transit Authority, though no analysis of the exact costs have been performed.

State Sen. Jil Tracy said, in part, “Just when we thought things couldn’t get more chaotic after the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), this proposal removes crucial protections, hands unelected bureaucrats unchecked power to raise utility rates, and risks closing reliable local power plants while subsidizing unreliable energy.”

Illinois soybean farmers face a potential market shakeup if public sentiment, and eventually policy, turns against seed oils, experts warn.