Here are the committee assignments for freshmen of Illinois’ congressional delegation – Crain’s*

Jonathan Jackson was named to the House Foreign Affairs Committee along with Rep. Brad Schneider of Highland Park. Jackson also gong to agriculture committee along with Rep. Eric Sorensen and Rep. Mary Miller. Sorensen also going on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, along with Reps. Sean Casten of Downers Grove and Bill Foster. Rep. Delia Ramirez is joining the Homeland Security and Veterans’ Affairs committees. Ramirez and Budzinski will be joined on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee by a fellow Illinois member and new chairman of the committee, Republican Rep. Mike Bost as well as their Democratic colleague Rep. Lauren Underwood of Naperville. As Crain’s reported earlier this week, Rep. Jesús G. “Chuy” Garcia of Chicago is leaving the coveted House Financial Services Committee. He will keep his assignments on the Transportation & Infrastructure Committee and natural resources committee
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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

April 3, 2026 9 Comments

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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