The Association of Election Commission Officials of Illinois (AECOI) appeared at a House Ethics and Elections Committee hearing last month to show their opposition for a bill that would amend the election code and allow small counties to dissolve their board of election commissioners.
The 2020 U.S. Census data reported that the Prairie State decreased in population for the first time in 200 years. Illinois will lose one seat in Congress as a result.
Last week the St. Louis Law School Chapter of the Federalist Society met with former Reagan Administration Secretary of Natural Resources Becky Norton Dunlop to discuss natural resource policy, an issue that Dunlop called "in the purview of the left for many years."
A lawyer specializing in the cannabis industry said his clients will turn to litigation if the "social equity" lottery amendment to the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act introduced by state Rep. LaShawn K. Ford (D-Chicago) clears the legislature.
Former Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Paul Vallas took pride in inheriting a school district with a $1 billion structural deficit and turning it into $1 billion balance with 70,000 new students when he left the district six years later.
Chicago Police Union President John Catanzara Jr. said Chicago PD Officer Eric Stillman, who fatally shot a teen, had no way of knowing the boy's intention when the gun became visible.
Energy subcommittee chairman U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) appeared on The Hill with Steve Clemons regarding the committee's involvement in climate change, energy grid modernization and energy equity.
Republican lawmakers continue efforts to reshape the state's redistricting process as an independent commission, with some party members saying their Democratic counterparts are working against the process.
The spring sun warming Chicago's sidewalks and urging Windy City residents to emerge after a winter full of public health crises and civil unrest does little to hide the foreboding sense that unhinged violence is on the horizon, according to a blogger.
Author Vicky Osterweil is quoted as writing that "a new energy of resistance is building across the country," in defense of looting and rioting that has gripped several American cities since June in response to police killings of Black Americans, the NPR reported in August.