Hoping to halt migrant drop-offs as extreme weather plagues Chicago, Illinois’ Democratic governor warned in a letter Friday to his GOP counterpart in Texas that sending migrants now to the
Last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker took firm control of the Illinois Commerce Commission. In a bid to rein in rising utility rates throughout the state, he named a new chairman and two others to the five-member body. Chairman Doug Scott did just what he was sent to the ICC to do. Late last year, the commission rejected record-setting rate-hike requests from all the utilities serving the Chicago .
Funding for the ongoing migrant crisis and crafting voting logistics for Chicago’s first elected school board are among the pressing issues facing Illinois lawmakers as they return to Springfield on Tuesday for a four-month legislative session. Adding a potentially complicating element to the session, which ends in May, is the March 19 primary, when all 118 Illinois House seats and 23 of the .
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Monday he believes former President Trump’s roaring victory in the Iowa caucuses could actually be a bad sign for his campaign. Media outlets called the race for Trump just minutes after caucuses began, and the former president ended up winning about 51 percent of the vote, within the margin…