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House Bill 5045 allows the state treasurer to set up an investment pool and electronic payment system for nonprofit organizations. The governor’s veto message specifically mentioned the Indiana Oath Keepers and said the bill could allow extremist groups to advance hateful missions.
It calls for increasing university funding in Illinois by about $135 million each year over the next 15 years. That new funding would be distributed under a formula that sets an adequacy target for each institution and gives priority for new funding to those institutions furthest away from their target. Rep. Carol Ammons said funding for the plan would be subject to legislative appropriations each year while HB 1581 merely establishes a policy under which the new money would be distributed.
Recent Census Bureau data shed light on one of the potential reasons so many Illinoisans are leaving the state: high taxes. In 2024, 95 percent of those who left Illinois fled to states with lower tax burdens.
“Sanctuary advocates preach empathy for the ‘undocumented,’ yet their policies create a ranking of worth: the lives of U.S. citizens like (Loyola University student Sheridan) Gorman become collateral in the pursuit of ideological virtue and are expendable when they collide with the protected status of those who crossed the border unlawfully.”
The Illinois House passed more than 150 bills out of committee from Tuesday to Wednesday as it worked toward a Friday deadline to move legislation to the full House.
Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson blasted city officials for Johnson’s financial disaster. In a statement, he said, “The Civic Federation takes no pleasure in yesterday’s news that two rating agencies have downgraded the City’s credit rating. A credit downgrade is not just symbolic; it indicates real financial consequences and long-term ramifications for not just the City but its residents.”
Rep. Kelly Cassidy said, in part, “It is tragic that some people want to use individual tragedies to justify the use of flawed technologies that risk the private information of millions in our state. … House Bill 5521 does not limit state and local police from investigating crimes. It simply protects the privacy of millions of Illinois residents simply because they have an Illinois driver’s license.”
The president spoke at a Cabinet meeting Thursday about 18-year-old Loyola student Sheridan Gorman, who was allegedly shot and killed by a Venezuelan migrant. “It would be great if people like the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois would say, ‘Please come in and stop the crime,’” he said.
House Bill 4263 would prevent local governments from setting rules regarding tips counting towards an hourly wage, making regulation of the allowance an exclusive power of the Illinois state government.
According to police, Idania J. Moreno-Paal and her husband, Salvador Francisco Tabacco-Campos, fled Venezuela into Mexico. In 2022, both had been granted temporary protected status work visas to enter the U.S. Tabacco-Campos “possibly owned and operated a pharmacy in Venezuela, according to the police report. The illegal dentist office has since been shut down, and the whereabouts of Moreno-Paal and her family are unknown.
An estimated 200 union members rallied on the east side of the Capitol Wednesday in favor of a bill to allow school support staff to apply for unemployment benefits during the summer.
“This name derives from our city’s legacy of standing up for justice, dignity and the rights of all people, no matter where they come from,” Johnson said in front of the city’s massive salt dome. “I want to take this moment to reiterate that Chicago does not want ICE on our streets, in our airports, nor in our city.”
A new internal transit crime task force will train more than 30 prosecutors and provide guidance on seeking court orders to restrict defendants from accessing parts of the CTA. “The goal of this task force is to make sure that we are effectively prosecuting these cases,” says Anastasia Harper, deputy chief assistant state’s attorney for policy and external affairs.
Andy Shaw: “That killed Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s graduated income tax amendment in 2020, which a majority of voters saw as a blank check to the Springfield sinkhole, and that skepticism hasn’t faded. If anything, it’s gotten worse.”
The family said, in part, “We are not interested in political arguments or in watching responsibility shift from one place to another. If there were failures—as the Governor himself has acknowledged—then every one of them must be identified, examined, and addressed directly. The location of those failures matters less than the willingness to confront them honestly.”
There have also been discussions between the United Center’s owners — the Wirtz and Reinsdorf families — and the city on public funding for a new Pink Line station near the United Center. But that proposal hasn’t advanced yet.
Under the terms of the EDGE agreement, Mars Snacking commits to adding 602 jobs by December 2027 and investing $100 million in building out the three offices to be eligible for $42.8 million in state
Illinois Department of Early Childhood Secretary Teresa Ramos said funding is primarily being allocated to the agency in line with the programs being taken over from other agencies, though she clarified the focus of efficiency is in the efficacy of programs, above financial efficiency.
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