“Forrest Gump ran toward danger in Vietnam. Your boss ran to his podiatrist crying bone spurs,” U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth responded to Vice President JD Vance on X, noting President Trump’s medical draft deferments.

“Until we have that, right, just on its face, the question is, is this just a repeat of trying to take money out of public schools and move it into private schools, which is what the Trump administration, generally speaking, has been in favor of?” Gov. JB Pritzker said at an unrelated event Wednesday. “Or is this something that could be useful? But we just don’t know because there are no rules around it right now.”

HB0043 would create a Task Force on Firearm Insurance to study current and future policies and make recommendations, with members appointed by the governor and leaders and administrative support from the Department of Insurance. Critics say the bill could lead to new burdens for law-abiding gun owners.

Ensuring “domestic tranquility” is among the six express goals of government stated in the Constitution. But for many protesters, the goal “seems to be to deliberately disrupt domestic tranquility as a tactic to undermine the president’s popularity. It’s working. Tranquility is a peaceful, calm state, without noise, violence, or worry. That’s not what we have in Minneapolis or, on any given day in Chicago and a handful of other cities in states controlled by Democrats.”

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“To be clear, in Lake County, federal agents who break state laws will be investigated through the same procedures we have traditionally used, prosecuted with due process and held accountable in our local court system. It is safer for the community and fairer to the inbound ICE and Border Patrol agents if they know this legal truth.”

Launched in 2024, the California-based group is registered as a nonprofit with the federal government and may solicit charitable contributions in 37 states, with applications pending in six other states. “Illinois is the only state in which Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender attempted to register as a charitable organization and was required to get permission from a political party due to its name,” said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

The governor referenced comments he made in 2025 where he compared the Trump administration to the rise of Nazi Germany. “And you know, people on the right attacked me and said, ‘How dare you? How dare you?’ People on the left were quiet and didn’t back it up. Now, what do you know? Twelve months later, well, a lot more people anyway among Democrats are saying, ‘Yeah, this feels like Germany in the 1930s.’ And of course, Republicans just won’t own it,” Pritzker said on a recent podcast.

“Our report is an urgent call to action for state policymakers to protect people and communities by requiring new data centers to secure their own new sources of clean electricity,” James Gignac of the Union of Concerned Scientists said. The Sangamon County Board is expected to vote on the CyrusOne Data Center in March.

“We have been grappling with some of the same problems for decades with no real solutions. The problems are magnified when citizens start leaving.”

Senate Bill 2908, introduced by state Sen. Neil Anderson, would direct the Illinois Department of Human Services to seek federal approval to bar SNAP benefits from being used on candy, sugary drinks and other highly processed foods.

“The state doesn’t have any money to put toward this, and the counties have no money because we keep taking it away from them on a state level,” state Sen. Sally Turner said. “If it’s one more burden on the clerk’s offices, it’s ridiculous.”

Grayson, who is white, killed Massey, a Black, unarmed single mother of two teenagers, in a rapidly progressing confrontation over Grayson’s fear that Massey would harm him with a pot of hot water from the stove of her kitchen in July 2024.

“The costs with climate change are going to be extravagant, and it’s going to end up on the backs of the taxpayers, and the oil companies continue to walk away with huge profits,” said Gabel, an Evanston Democrat, the bill’s sponsor. “Polluting companies should be responsible for the damage they cause.”

Supporters say the bill is urgently needed after this week’s arctic blast, when schools closed, transit shut down, and cities opened warming centers while thousands of workers still had to show up to load baggage on frozen tarmacs, deliver packages, and work in warehouses that felt like refrigerators. …. “Climate change is not some far away or future health threat. It is harming Illinois workers now,” said a supporter.

Illinois state lawmakers are putting $700,000 behind the Black Researchers Collective, an activist research group using taxpayer dollars to promote “racial equity in research.” The Chicago nonprofit describes itself as a “collective of Black folx taking research to the streets.”

“The way to fewer Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in neighborhoods is not through chaos, protests or citizen intervention into law enforcement actions. It is through policy change to decrease the need for immigration enforcement in neighborhoods. … Repeal the Illinois TRUST Act and the Illinois Way Forward Act.”

The newly filed federal lawsuit highlights a little-known provision of Illinois law barring organizations from incorporating under names containing the words “democrat,” “democratic” or “republican” without the consent of the corresponding party’s state central committee. “Illinois is the only state to tell us we can’t fundraise there,” said Jenny Poyer Ackerman, of Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender.