Wirepoints https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Wirepoints Home Column: Ammons’ LinkedIn page outlines her disputed work history – Champaign News-Gazette Paul Vallas: Former Chicago Mayor Sets Sights on the White House – Chicago Contrarian Attorney General Raoul Leads Coalition Supporting New York Measures Ensuring Public Safety In State Buildings – RiverBender (Alton) Trump administration takes equity stakes in four Illinois quantum campus companies – Hyde Park Herald Editorial: About Toni Preckwinkle’s primary election promises on timely property tax bills – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo Loop building goes residential in latest wave of office conversions – Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Paid $2.7M for System Designed to Flag Officers With Multiple Complaints – WTTW (Chicago) New Illinois laws on driver’s licenses for seniors, cyber-bullying to take effect – NBC5 (Chicago) Illinois lawmakers seek to streamline contracting for service providers – Capitol News IL Pritzker should veto legally questionable digital ad tax – Illinois Policy As summer heats up, so do local ‘teen takeovers’ – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo Unpaid contractors cloud Obama Center’s finish line – The RealDeal Civic Federation President Joe Ferguson: CPS leaders must get the district’s debt under control – Chicago Tribune* Presidential poll numbers show Pritzker at 2% – Center Square Lawmakers don’t act on Gov. JB Pritzker’s play for gambling regulation merger, citing transparency concerns – Chicago Sun-Times At least 19 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago – ABC7 (Chicago) Explosion In Front Of Pilsen Alderman’s Home Was An ‘Act Of Political Violence,’ He Says – Block Club Chicago The Obama Presidential Center was meant to lift up local contractors. Some are now fighting for survival. – Crain’s Hedge fund rebel to leave Illinois pension board – Crain’s U.S. House passes Mary Miller’s bill to stop childcare fraud – Center Square Gunman sprays Ford City parking lot with automatic gunfire, killing man during car ‘sideshow’ – CWB Chicago Illinois’ doomed plan to tax social media – FIRE State Rep. Joe Sosnowski: Why I voted no on the FY27 Illinois budget – Rockford Register Star/Yahoo Illinois educators urge Pritzker to reject federal school voucher program – WSIU (NPR at SIU) Ralph Martire: The real problem in Illinois – Daily Herald* Illinois farm groups push for estate tax reform as succession challenges grow – KWQC (Davenport, IA) Pritzker’s spring wins come with caveats as BUILD, megaprojects bills stall – Capitol News IL The Dirty Little Secret About Illinois’s ‘Balanced’ Budget – AMAC Pritzker Blames Chicago Bears for Stadium Collapse Despite $2 Billion Private Offer — Then Lies About Billions Spent on Illegal Migrants and Blames Abbott Instead – Gateway Pundit Library and school leaders let Cook County officials have it over costly property tax delays – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo The City Spent Millions On A Flailing Domestic Violence Program No One Asked For, Advocates Say – Block Club Chicago Chicago Public Schools CEO Dr. Macquline King grilled by GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill – Chicago Sun-Times 1,200 crimes, 1 arrest: Chicago police fail to address boom in air bag thefts – Chicago Sun-Times As people protest data centers across the Heartland, lawmakers rush to regulate development – WVIK (Quad Cities) Chicago was right to reject the 2026 World Cup – The Last Ward Investigation underway after suspected firework detonated outside Ald. Sigcho-Lopez’s home – CBS2 (Chicago) Illinois joins states boycotting Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’ – WTVO (Rockford) Rich Miller: Gov. Pritzker can’t expect to escape Bears stadium bill blame – Chicago Sun-Times As State Approves 1st Video Gambling Licenses in Chicago, Mayor Asks City Council to Reverse Course – WTTW (Chicago) Pritzker signs hemp, cannabis regulation into law – WAND (Decatur) Bill allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition arrives on Pritzker’s desk – WAND (Decatur) Tax tribunal to remain funded – Center Square Attorney General Raoul Co-Leads Lawsuit Challenging Unlawful Trump Administration Mandates On Federal Contractors – RiverBender (Alton) What Chicago Can Learn from New York City’s Budget Requirements – Civic Federation House hearing grills public school superintendents over gender policies, student mistreatment – The Lion State Sen. Sally Turner on gas prices, data center and ramming the state budget through – WGLT (NPR at ISU) Paul Vallas: Mayor Johnson Is Making Chicago’s Affordable Housing Crisis Worse – John Kass News IL rewrites property ‘tax sale’ rules; IL counties keep fighting ‘tax sale’ suits – Legal Newsline Feds move to drop charges in COVID fraud case to avoid hearing into alleged wrongdoing – Chicago Tribune/Yahoo