The proposal would require the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to create a new broadband grant distribution plan. Grant recipients could then install, maintain and use broadband infrastructure along a highway right-of-way. This comes as Illinois faces a Dec. 31 deadline to submit final proposals to utilize $1 billion in federal broadband funding.

The water woes in Lisle hinge on a section of the village forced to get their water from a private company at a rate up to three times higher than neighbors who get water from the village.

SB 3391 would make charter schools ineligible to receive funding unless they approve renewal agreements within 90 days. The measure also requires every charter operator to maintain closure security or face losing a portion of per-pupil payments and denial of charter renewal, and provides for civil action by the school district or the state board of education against any charter operator that fails to comply.

Senate Bill 3222 sponsored by state Sen. Doris Turner, would allow Illinoisans to lodge official complaints over commercial volume if they’re substantially louder than the programs they accompany.

The justices are being asked to interpret an aspect of the state’s Pretrial Fairness Act; the case involved Jimmie Marshall, who was arrested in March 2025 for punching a Livingston County sheriff’s officer several times in the face during an altercation that had begun with a fight between his stepson and another juvenile. When Marshall appeared at his detention hearing on a charge of aggravated battery on a police officer, the court noted Marshall’s history of violent offenses, including a 2006 conviction for second-degree murder and a 2018 conviction for battery.

This measure, Senate Bill 3562, would give people clear, retainable disclosures before subscriptions are activated. It would also guarantee that cancellations can be completed easily online or in the same way the consumer signed up.

Retired Chief of Police Tom Weitzel: “In Illinois, felonies are routinely reduced to misdemeanors—not because the acts were minor, but because prosecutors are overwhelmed, courts are backlogged, and political pressures mount. Under this law, those reduced charges become eligible for automatic sealing. Violent or dangerous behavior can vanish from public records—not because it was harmless, but because the system failed to hold it accountable. This is not reform. It is record-laundering.”

“Some participants (in the call) asked about potential federal presence and increased involvement in the 2026 elections,” said Matt Dietrich, spokesman for the Illinois State Board of Elections. “The response from the participating agencies indicated no such plans.”

“Large industrial companies that use a lot of energy, it’s really hard, if not impossible, to rely completely on renewable,” said Mark Denzler, of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association. “It’s the right thing to do … but politically driven deadlines to say, we’re going to close gas facilities and clean coal facilities by a certain date without having enough generation to backfill that hole is a problem.”

“In a state dominated by one party and one powerful incumbent, an opposition candidate must be able to turn the campaign into a referendum on governance itself.”

The model used in the study indicated a more than 25 percent increase in the frequency of large hailstones of at least 1.8 inches if planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from human activities do not significantly reduce by mid-century.

“Our long-term vision, our North Star, is to win a statewide permanent guaranteed income program for 100,000 eligible Illinoisans,” said Byron Hobbs, director of organizing for the economic freedom team at Community Change. “This economy has not worked for poor and low-income folks in the city of Chicago, across Illinois and across this country.”

“But as often happens in Springfield, the devil is in the details. And as more emerges, we’re learning that the governor’s (budget) proposal could shift additional financial pressure onto local governments, leaving municipal leaders with a familiar set of choices: raise taxes, cut services or both.”