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MILLER: Illinois spending exceeding flat revenues

More than a year ago, the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget was projecting a $3.2 billion deficit for what is now the current fiscal year. Part of the problem was that existing revenues were flat while spending was growing, according to the budget office.  This is a recurring problem in Illinois. The previous fiscal year’s projections were also astonishingly poor. The Chicago-based Civic Federation issued a report last week that delves a bit deeper into why it is a recurring problem. […]

todayMay 2, 2026 65

Chicago Bears

Columnists

MILLER: Can the Bears bill get across the goal line?

“We’re almost there” on a Bears stadium bill, Rep. Kam Buckner (D-Chicago) told some sports radio hosts on a Friday morning before the House returned to Springfield for three days of session last week. “We’re very close.” Asked if the rumor spread by sports business pundit Marc Ganis earlier that week was true about House Speaker Chris Welch holding up the Bears bill, Buckner, the House’s point person on the state megaprojects bill that includes the Arlington Heights Bears stadium […]

todayApril 27, 2026 40

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Columnists

MILLER: Polls unfavorable toward data centers

In a mid-March poll, 68 percent of likely Illinois voters said they would support legislation to “regulate data centers to minimize their impact on our utility bills, climate, and water while still allowing them to be built.” But while 21 percent opposed the legislation, more than half of those opponents (56 percent) said they did so because they “Oppose allowing data centers to be built at all.” That means 80 percent either want guardrails or oppose any new construction. So, yeah, […]

todayApril 19, 2026 39

Campaign crud

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CAPITOL FAX: Campaign crud

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you likely know that former U.S. President Bill Clinton seemed to say that he flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet with JB Pritzker and his spouse. That was after saying that it was likely that Epstein, as well as his notorious co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, were passengers on every flight he took on that plane. Clinton made his remarks during a deposition taken by the U.S. House Oversight Committee last month. He was asked during […]

todayMarch 9, 2026 109

Chicago Bears

Commentary

MILLER: Bears infrastructure plan brewing in Springfield

Illinois House Democrats were told last week that a state capital projects plan designed to assist Arlington Heights’ bid to lure the Chicago Bears away from their Indiana stadium gambit would cost up to $895 million.  None of the money would be used to directly build the new Bears stadium or the surrounding commercial district envisioned by the team’s ownership. Gov. JB Pritzker insisted to reporters earlier this month that the projects would be done to help enhance the area. Capital assistance […]

todayJanuary 26, 2026 99 1

Illinois Supreme Court

Commentary

MILLER: Illinois Supreme Court moves attract little attention

Remember the national uproar last November when U.S. Rep. Chuy Garcia bowed out of his reelection race at the last minute and quietly passed petitions to put his chief of staff, Patty Garcia, on the ballot? We saw a lesser, but still quite palpable mass grumbling when state Rep. Marty Moylan (D-Des Plaines) did the same that month for his chief of staff Justin Cochran, who was subsequently appointed to the House by the district’s Democratic township committeepersons after Moylan […]

todayJanuary 17, 2026 126

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