SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House narrowly passed a bill Thursday that would allow businesses, universities and other building owners to designate multi-occupancy all-gender bathrooms if they choose to do so.
SPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers are considering a bill that would treat ride-share companies such as Uber and Lyft as “common carriers,” opening them up to the same level of liability as other forms of public transportation.
SPRINGFIELD — With two months to go before the legislature adjourns and current-year revenues continuing to smash expectations, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he and legislative leaders are considering tax cuts.
CHICAGO — Officials with the state’s largest transit agencies met with lawmakers on Tuesday to sound the alarm for what Regional Transportation Authority Executive Director Leanne Redden called a “looming operational crisis.”
The court put the case on an expedited schedule and a decision is expected later this year, although the court did not set a specific timeline.
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“I’m calling on all major pharmacies to resist the political grandstanding of certain state attorneys general and preserve this right wherever reproductive choice is still allowed — which will always be the case in Illinois while I am governor.”
SPRINGFIELD — Parents who make money posting videos of their children on social-media channels may soon be legally required to share that revenue with their kids.
SPRINGFIELD — With two months to go before the adjournment of Illinois’ spring legislative session, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s state budgeting task may have gotten easier Tuesday.
Representatives of the team wrote that their planned mega-project, envisioned to include apartments and an entertainment complex, would not pass financial muster unless local governments can ensure “predictable taxes” and promise to help pay for public infrastructure around the site.
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday highlighted a proposed grant program that would direct $70 million per year over the next three years to school districts facing the greatest teacher shortages.
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday announced the release of nearly $60 million in grant funding to help local governments develop public parks and open spaces, over 20 percent of which will go to “distressed” communities.
SPRINGFIELD — Citing what he called a nationwide crisis in children’s mental health, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday unveiled a sweeping plan to overhaul and expand the availability of children’s behavioral health services in Illinois.
SPRINGFIELD — A bill that would allow restaurants, hotels and other public places to designate “all-gender multiple-occupancy” restrooms passed out of a House committee Wednesday, sending it to the full House for consideration.
SPRINGFIELD — Illinoisans seeking to legally change the gender on their birth certificate will have an easier time under a new law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last week.
SPRINGFIELD — One day after delivering his budget address, Gov. J.B. Pritzker took to the road to rally support for his proposed “Smart Start” program to expand access to preschool and child care throughout the state.
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday laid out a $49.6 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year that calls for significant new spending for early childhood education and efforts to combat homelessness among other areas.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s second-term legislative agenda will kick off in earnest Wednesday as he proposes his fifth annual state budget to lawmakers in the General Assembly.
Mahomet’s terminals generated about $1.4 million in income in 2022, with a resulting $69,948.53 going back to the village.
A law recently signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker will extend the deadline for the state to transfer criminal defendants deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial from jail to a mental hospital.
Varying efforts to roll back the use of cash bail in different states have so far led to consistent results, including lower jail populations, low re-offense rates for people released on bond and less jail time for people accused of low-level crimes.
SPRINGFIELD — After his second-term inauguration amid a frenzied “lame duck” legislative session last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker took the global stage this week at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
A trio of gun owners and a firearms retailer in southeastern Illinois have filed the first two lawsuits in what’s expected to be a flurry of litigation against the state’s new law banning the sale and manufacture of assault weapons in Illinois.
How have the courts ruled on the constitutionality of similar bans? What's the next gun-reform step Illinois should take? Will Illinois' neighbors ever take similar steps? Answering those questions and others: a panel that includes Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts, Champaign County Sheriff Dustin Heuerman, Brady: United Against Gun Violence president Kris Brown, former Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and many others.
“I’m signing this legislation tonight so that it can take immediate effect and we can end the sale of these weapons of war as soon as possible,” Pritzker said.
“The hope we share, the hope I expressed at my first inauguration, was born of a truth lodged firmly in my heart — that Illinois has always stood at the intersection of American ambition and human resilience. And that combination is what has made this the greatest state in the union,” Pritzker said.
Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, faulted the measure for including the automatic raises, calling it “bad policy” Sunday. He added: “If I took a poll of my current district ... and said, ‘How many folks in my district got a 20 percent pay raise in six months?’ there wouldn’t be a single hand. And that’s all I gotta say about this.”
Senate President Don Harmon said today that senators will give both the assault weapons ban and another House-approved abortion-related bill “extensive review and careful evaluation” over the weekend.
An appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of a state law that would end cash bail appears to be at least two months away from resolution under a new timeline approved by the court Thursday.
A loophole allows pawnbrokers to charge interest rates and fees that can amount to effective rates as high as 240 percent per year — or more when factoring in associated fees — according to a consumer advocacy group.
“Without a significant increase in state funding, the severe shelter shortage will worsen,” homeless advocates wrote in a letter to state leaders.
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