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Pritzker signs bill aimed at ending homelessness

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday that seeks to effectively end homelessness in Illinois by marshaling the resources of multiple agencies into one effort. House Bill 2831 codifies an executive order Pritzker signed in 2021 that established the Illinois Interagency Task Force on Homelessness and the Community Advisory Council on Homelessness. It centralizes programs across 17 state departments and agencies to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to combat homelessness.  At a bill-signing ceremony at Featherfist, a […]

todayJuly 26, 2023

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AFSCME ratifies new 4-year contract

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker and the state’s largest public employee union announced Tuesday that they have agreed on a new contract that will provide a nearly 18 percent pay raise over four years, including a 4 percent raise this year. The contract also expands parental leave to 12 weeks and calls for new joint efforts to improve workplace safety. A spokesperson for the governor’s office said in an email that the contract is projected to cost […]

todayJuly 25, 2023

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Illinois regulators work to avoid federal clean air sanctions

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinois faces a deadline next month to either change the way it enforces air pollution emission limits on heavy industries or face federal sanctions that could eventually result in restricted access to billions of dollars in federal highway funding. But state agencies are working to avoid that as they rush to meet an Aug. 12 deadline imposed by the federal government to put a new regulatory framework in place that will comply with the federal […]

todayJuly 17, 2023

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New year to bring new laws in Illinois

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 […]

todayDecember 25, 2022

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Illinois pension debt grows to $139.7 billion

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 […]

todayDecember 10, 2022

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McCombie to take reins of House GOP caucus

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 […]

todayNovember 17, 2022

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Holder White sworn in as first Black woman on state Supreme Court

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Lisa Holder White was sworn in Thursday as the first Black woman to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court. Holder White, who previously served on the 4th District Court of Appeals, was chosen to succeed one of her mentors in the legal profession, retiring Justice Rita B. Garman, who broke many barriers herself as a woman in what was then a male-dominated profession. “It is truly a historic day for the Land of Lincoln,” Garman […]

todayJuly 8, 2022

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Temporary tax relief measures to begin Friday in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinoisans will receive some modest tax relief starting Friday when the state’s new fiscal year begins. That includes some income tax rebates, property tax rebates, a suspension of the state’s 1 percent tax on groceries, and a six-month pause on the scheduled inflationary increase in the state’s motor fuel tax. Gov. JB Pritzker and legislative Democrats held a news conference publicizing those tax breaks as consumers grappled with 8.6 percent inflation, the highest rate in […]

todayJuly 1, 2022

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Six Republicans vie to unseat Pritzker

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Republican voters in Illinois will choose from six candidates to challenge incumbent Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker in the upcoming June 28 primary. Field of Republican candidates seeking the nomination The field includes a conservative farmer and state lawmaker who is the recent polling frontrunner, the mayor of Illinois’ second largest city, a former state senator, and three political newcomers. Darren Bailey Darren Bailey, 56, is a conservative state senator from Xenia, a small town in […]

todayJune 24, 2022

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