Barring an appeal of the results, Amy “Murri” Briel will succeed state Rep. Lance Yednock as the 76th District state representative.
Following Election Night on Nov. 5, Briel, an Ottawa Democrat, held a 505 vote lead against Liz Bishop, a La Salle Republican, with more than 1,600 mail-in ballots uncounted in La Salle, DeKalb and Bureau counties.
SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) – Many high school seniors are probably like Williamsville’s Bryson Trickey, asking what’s next as they prepare to graduate.
Tuesday, some of those students got a chance to get answers as the AFL-CIO hosted the eighth annual Central Illinois Building Trades Career Day fair at the BOS Center in Springfield as part of National Apprenticeship Week.
(The Center Square) – Lawmakers and special interest groups want the state to enforce existing law that requires nursing home operators to meet staffing requirements.
At a news conference Tuesday in Springfield, Illinois AARP Senior Director of Advocacy and Outreach Ryan Gruenenfelder said that in 2010, staffing standards were imposed to ensure patients’ needs were met.
A proposed change in Illinois law would eliminate the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities, but some fear it could leave the state’s most vulnerable out of work altogether.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Security just tightened at the Illinois State Capitol.
The new protocols have been implemented to curb threats to the Capitol, the Secretary of State’s Office announced in a memo sent out Monday. The new rules all took effect Tuesday, Nov. 19.
Some threats from earlier this year include a bomb threat in March and a threatening 911 call in April.
With nearly half a million dollars of state funding, a new electric vehicle charging station opened in Joliet on Monday. It is the first of hundreds of charging stations set to be installed over the next 18 months as part of a state-funded grant program.
That growth in chargers is important as Illinois aims to rapidly transition toward having more electric vehicle drivers.
(The Center Square) – As Illinois continues to set aside state and federal tax dollars to so-called “clean energy” programs, some are calling for a different direction.
Standing alongside Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker Friday, U.S. EPA Region 5 Administrator Debra Shore announced the state is receiving $500 million across two different grants. The taxpayer funds will be used to fund the Biden-Harris administration’s policies to combat “climate change.”
Sometimes making the case for spending $60 million requires explaining the cost of doing nothing.
Capitol News Illinois Friday reported on Raising Illinois, a coalition that staged nine rallies around the state in recent weeks advocating for the next operating budget to include an additional $60 million for early childhood intervention services.
According to the group, 3,500 children age 3 and younger are eligible but waiting for things like speech, physical and occupational therapy.
CHICAGO – It was a sunny and mild spring afternoon in May 2019 when roughly 100 FBI agents were dispatched to the homes – and one office – of eight allies to then-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
The coordinated raids – all conducted within the same hour or so to preserve “the element of surprise,” one of the agents told a federal jury on Monday – recovered documents and electronic devices from searches in Chicago, a near suburb and 200 miles southwest in Quincy, along the Mississippi River.
The results of the presidential election were shocking, not just because of Donald Trump’s landslide victory, but also because of the seismic shift in the electorate. Almost every demographic moved to the right; most strikingly, the working class and minority voters abandoned the status quo in masses.
This should have been a neon warning sign for Gov.
Traffic flows along Interstate 90 in Chicago as a Metra suburban commuter train moves along an elevated track.
Associated Press File Photo
The headline from a discussion last week of the prospects for Metra in the coming years was certainly attention-getting: “Metra could drop 40% of trains in 2027.”
The potential for a reduction of service approaching half of what the suburban commuter rail line offers now demands the attention of the public and government policymakers, though there is at least one statistic that can take some of the sting out of Executive Director Jim Derwinski’s estimate to the Metra board of directors.
The day after one of Michael J. Madigan’s top door-knockers won a seat on the Cook County Board in October 2016, he placed a call to lobbyist Jay Doherty and explained that, “the Speaker wanted me to reach out.”
Longtime Madigan precinct captain Ed Moody had collected $144,000 since March 2014 from ComEd through Doherty’s firm, records show.
(The Center Square) – Prosecutors on Monday took the jury in the corruption trial of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan through nearly a decade of payments to subcontractors who they allege did little or no work for the state’s largest utility despite getting paid.
Jurors watched as Madigan associate Jay Doherty’s lobbying contract with Illinois electric utility Commonwealth Edison grew from $200,000 a year to more than $400,000 a year as he added subcontractors – without explanation – to his longstanding lobbying contract with ComEd.
(The Center Square) – With millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on electric vehicle incentives, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced the state’s first deployment of an EV charging station funded by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, or CEJA.
The governor joined elected officials, utility and union leaders in Joliet Monday to celebrate the new charger at Inwood Athletic Club.
November 18, 2024
Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton – State of Illinois
Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton
Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton proudly represents all 13 million Illinois residents with compassion and empathy. She actively brings people together and takes a community-centered approach to solving problems. She firmly believes that the solutions to Illinois’ most pressing challenges can be found by tapping into the wisdom that already exists in our communities.
By ELIZABETH DONALD
Illinois Correspondent
A hard night for Democrats didn’t leave Illinois untouched, despite its primarily Democratic leanings.
Nick Raftopoulos lost his bid to unseat state Rep. Amy Elik for the state House District 111 after more than a year of campaigning and working with local unions. Raftopoulos received 18,621 votes to Elik’s 29,840, according to final yet unofficial results.
JOLIET, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was in Joliet Monday morning to celebrate the opening of the first electric vehicle charging stations funded by the 2021 Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA).
The fast charging ports were partially paid for by a $480,000 grant from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and were installed by a veteran-owned business, Veterans Energy Team, in partnership with the Joliet Park District.
