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Capitol News Illinois

Candidates for 2024 primary election brave cold
Hundreds of hopefuls aim to claim top spot on ballot

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) -- Monday marked the kickoff for the 2024 election cycle, with hundreds of candidates filing their petitions at the Illinois State Board of Elections. Those in line by 8 a.m. Monday at the ISBE building in Springfield will be entered into a lottery to be the first name on the ballot in their respective primary elections, set for March 19. The lottery will be public and will take place on Dec. 13. While some candidates camp […]

November 27, 2023 5

Capitol News Illinois

What to know ahead of next week’s budget address

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker’s second-term legislative agenda will kick off in earnest next week as he proposes his fifth annual state budget to lawmakers in the General Assembly. But while a governor’s proposal usually provides the framework for the state’s annual spending plan, it rarely makes it through the General Assembly untouched by lawmakers who have their own spending priorities. The monthslong negotiating process involves dozens of budget hearings and behind-closed-doors meetings, eventually culminating in the […]

February 8, 2023 61

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Illinois election board certifies 2022 results
Mendoza is top Democratic vote-getter

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 […]

December 6, 2022 1

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Illinois to reduce federal unemployment debt by $450 million
Low unemployment has allowed for payment from trust fund balance

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 […]

September 28, 2022 2

Capital Area Region

Pritzker talks session timeline, programs, spending
Gun, abortion-related bills could wait until new year, depending on lawmaker support

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 […]

August 16, 2022 1

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Illinois general revenues top $50 billion for first time
Pandemic-driven windfalls not expected to last long into current year

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – State tax revenues grew by $5.5 billion in the fiscal year that concluded on June 30, exceeding $50 billion for the first time in Illinois’ history, according to a new report from a state budgeting agency. The 12 percent base revenue growth in Fiscal Year 2022 gave lawmakers near-unprecedented flexibility in the current budget year. That allowed the General Assembly to approve $1.8 billion in tax relief, pay $500 million more to state pensions than […]

July 8, 2022 1

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Pritzker: ‘Stay tuned’ for new guidance on masks
Decisions from other Democratic-led states, Illinois court ruling ramp up pressure

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinoisans should stay tuned for an announcement on the state’s indoor mask mandate, Gov. JB Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference Tuesday, although he declined to say specifically what changes might be coming. “I think I've said over the last few press conferences that I really believe that we ought to be looking seriously at how to ratchet that back,” Pritzker said of his mask mandates. “I think we're going to be making announcements […]

February 8, 2022 21

Capitol News Illinois

What’s in Pritzker’s proposed budget?
A look inside the final spending plan of the governor’s first term

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) -- Each year in February, Illinois’ governor must propose to lawmakers a spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year. The General Assembly will then spend the next several months negotiating which proposals to include and which to scrap before sending the budget back to the governor for consideration. On Wednesday, Gov. JB Pritzker delivered his fourth proposed budget, this one for fiscal year 2023 which will begin July 1, and outlined spending plans for an anticipated $1.7 […]

February 2, 2022 5

Capitol News Illinois

Report details community colleges’ impact on economy, earnings
Indirect economic impact tops $3.5 billion

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinois community colleges have a multi-billion dollar impact on the state’s economy and will be “integral in making a recovery from the pandemic an equitable one,” according to a new report from the Northern Illinois University Center for Governmental Studies. The Illinois Community Colleges’ Economic Impacts and Student Employment Outcomes report said the indirect economic output tied to community colleges in 2020 was $3.5 billion. Directly, the state’s 48 community colleges employed 32,867 individuals in […]

September 29, 2021 4

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Hundreds of hopefuls aim to claim top spot on ballot

Mendoza is top Democratic vote-getter

Low unemployment has allowed for payment from trust fund balance

Gun, abortion-related bills could wait until new year, depending on lawmaker support

Pandemic-driven windfalls not expected to last long into current year

Decisions from other Democratic-led states, Illinois court ruling ramp up pressure

A look inside the final spending plan of the governor’s first term

Indirect economic impact tops $3.5 billion

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