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For the first time since the General Assembly adjourned its historic regular legislative session in early June, lawmakers will be back at the Capitol for more legislative action next week. The annual "veto session," so called because it's the Legislature's first opportunity to override the governor's vetoes each year, will convene Oct. 28-30 and Nov. 12-14. While the session had served as a battleground between former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats in the General...
Amid an ongoing flurry of federal investigative activity pertaining to state government, a bipartisan group of lawmakers called for the creation of a task force to recommend greater ethical safeguards during a Statehouse news conference Monday. “We’re not here to be the judge and the jury at all, we are here to start a conversation,” Rep. Tony McCombie, a Savanna Republican, said. “… We need the people who put us in office to be able to rely on us and trust us, and today, they can’t do that.” McCombie is sponsoring Ho...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife, M.K. Pritzker, reported more than $6 million in gross income last year, about $5.5 million of which was federally taxable, according to a nine-page summary of 2018 state and federal tax returns released by his campaign Tuesday. The governor's campaign did not, however, release any tax return documentation regarding trust funds which benefit the Pritzkers. The only information about the trusts was contained in a single sentence in the email...
Lawmakers will aim to pass a law capping out-of-pocket insulin costs at $100 per one month's supply when they return for the fall veto session, the bill's sponsors announced Friday at a Chicago news conference. "How much would you pay to keep yourself alive? How much would you pay to keep your children alive?" asked state Sen. Andy Manar, a Bunker Hill Democrat who is sponsoring Senate Bill 667, Amendment 1. Manar said pharmaceutical companies, insurers and other industry insi...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker's Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity introduced a five-year economic plan this week, focusing on six industries that can boost the state's economy and a variety of programs to build its workforce and encourage population growth. It's the first such plan since former Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn released his in July 2014, when he declared, "Illinois is in the midst of a resurgence." "Over the past five years, the state has battled back from the...