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Listen to the latest Capitol Cast The Capitol News Illinois team welcomes new full-time reporter Hannah Meisel and Public Affairs Reporting intern Nika Schoonover. The reporters all also discuss what they are working on at the beginning of a new legislative session. source
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – By now, almost everyone in Illinois has heard that Jan. 1 will mark the beginning of a significant change in the state’s criminal justice system – the elimination of cash bail. It’s an issue that dominated the 2022 campaigns and has been both praised and criticized on editorial pages in newspapers across the state. It essentially means that starting Jan. 1, the decision as to whether a criminal suspect should be held in jail while […]
Unfunded liabilities in Illinois' five pension funds grew 7.5 percent, to $139.7 billion, in the fiscal year that ended June 30. SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinois’ unfunded pension liability grew by $9.8 billion, or 7.5 percent, in the fiscal year that ended June 30, due in large part to market losses in a volatile economy. The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability reported Thursday that the total unfunded liability in the state’s five pension funds reached a total of […]
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza is pictured at a Democratic campaign event in Springfield earlier this year. She received the most votes of any statewide candidate in this year's election. SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – The Illinois State Board of Elections certified its election results Monday, putting the final stamp on another Democratic sweep of statewide offices. The board reported that 4,142,642 out of 8,115,751 registered voters cast ballots in the election, a turnout of roughly 51 percent. That’s down from […]
House Minority Leader-elect Tony McCombie (R-Savanna) speaks at a news conference in her soon-to-be office once she officially assumes the GOP leadership title in the 103rd General Assembly in January. SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – State Rep. Tony McCombie said Wednesday that her top priority when she becomes the next House minority leader will be to rebuild the GOP caucus following last week’s elections that were, for Republicans, a disappointment. “The top priority is to bring balance to the Republican […]
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Capitol News Illinois will significantly expand its operations as it enters the fifth year of operations in 2023 because of a significant grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. The McCormick Foundation has announced a three-year, $2 million investment in Capitol News Illinois, a nonprofit news organization that provides daily coverage of state government and is operated by the Illinois Press Foundation. The CNI grant is one of four being announced by the McCormick Foundation, […]
Gov. JB Pritzker announces a plan Tuesday for the state to pay down $450 million of its outstanding $1.8 billion Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund debt to the federal government. SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker announced a plan Tuesday to reduce a $1.8 billion Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund deficit by $450 million through an infusion of unemployment-related revenues. The trust fund is the pool of money paid into by employers to provide a social safety net for unemployed […]
SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – In a series of downstate news conferences coinciding with the Illinois State Fair, Gov. JB Pritzker this week gave an update on the possibility of a special session, outlined new state infrastructure investments, and announced a new program for some Illinoisans over age 55. While the governor quickly announced he would call a special session after the landmark Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade was overturned in June, lawmakers have thus far not scheduled any […]
SPRINGFIELD (CNI) – House Republican lawmakers criticized Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday ahead of his budget address next week, calling on the governor to reinstate business tax incentives he froze last month. In a Friday news conference, state representatives Mike Murphy (R-Springfield), Jeff Keicher (R-Sycamore), and Keith Wheeler (R-Oswego) called on Pritzker to resume offering tax credits to new businesses through the 2019 Blue Collar Jobs Act, a bipartisan economic reform package pushed by House Republicans and signed into law […]
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