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Pritzker signs bills expanding protections for Native Americans

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker signed a package of bills Friday extending cultural protections to Native Americans in Illinois and requiring the teaching of Native American history in public schools. At a bill signing ceremony in Schaumburg, Pritzker highlighted three historic sites that were significant in Native American history in Illinois – the Buel House along the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Pope County; the Pierre Menard Home in Randolph County; and the Kincaid Mounds that contain the remains of a Native American […]

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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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Illinois hotels report record revenues for FY23

CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) – For hoteliers, business is booming in Illinois. On Monday, Gov. JB Pritzker, the state’s legislative leadership and representatives of the hospitality industry announced that hotels in Illinois saw record revenues in fiscal year 2023, which ended June 30. Across the state, hotels brought in $307.8 million, according to figures from the state’s Department of Revenue. That beats fiscal year 2019, the previous record year for hotel income and the last year before the pandemic upended […]

todayJuly 11, 2023

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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 […]

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Illinois COVID-19 disaster proclamation ends in May

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Exactly 38 months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Illinois will no longer be under a disaster proclamation as of May 11, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday. That’s the same day President Joe Biden will end the national public health emergency, which just passed the three-year mark last week. The White House announced the May 11 end date on Monday. Pritzker had declared a public health emergency two days before the […]

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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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