Safety reforms could be coming for Chicagoland transit, but funding still up in the air

May 15, 2025 / Comments Off on Safety reforms could be coming for Chicagoland transit, but funding still up in the air

Capitol News Illinois With just over two weeks to go before their spring adjournment, lawmakers in Springfield are facing a tight deadline to pass major…

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Speaker removes Democratic Rep. Fred Crespo from committee chairmanship for ‘not communicating’

May 15, 2025 / Comments Off on Speaker removes Democratic Rep. Fred Crespo from committee chairmanship for ‘not communicating’

Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch made the extraordinary move of removing an appropriations committee chair on Wednesday with two weeks…

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Governor’s office cuts revenue projection by $500M in latest downward estimate

May 14, 2025 / Comments Off on Governor’s office cuts revenue projection by $500M in latest downward estimate

Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker’s office is now projecting state revenues to come in about a half-billion dollars below the baseline projections…

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Under ‘crime-free housing’ laws, families may be evicted for minor offenses

May 14, 2025 / Comments Off on Under ‘crime-free housing’ laws, families may be evicted for minor offenses

Capitol News Illinois By Sidnee King Pineda, Illinois Answers Project Sidnee King Pineda reported on eviction policies in Illinois as part of The Times’s Local…

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Consumer advocates tell regulators to slash rate hike requests from Ameren, Nicor

May 14, 2025 / Comments Off on Consumer advocates tell regulators to slash rate hike requests from Ameren, Nicor

Capitol News Illinois Natural gas customers in the Chicago suburbs and downstate Illinois are likely to see an increase in their monthly bills next year,…

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State on track to end health coverage program for immigrant adults

May 13, 2025 / Comments Off on State on track to end health coverage program for immigrant adults

Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — State officials are on track to shut down a program at the end of June that provides publicly funded health…

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Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement

May 13, 2025 / Comments Off on Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcement

Capitol News Illinois Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and 19 other Democratic attorneys general filed a pair of lawsuits Tuesday against Trump administration policies designed…

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Fallen Aurora firefighter honored at state’s annual memorial ceremony

May 13, 2025 / Comments Off on Fallen Aurora firefighter honored at state’s annual memorial ceremony

Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Fallen Aurora firefighter Cristian Medrano was honored at the state’s 32nd annual Fallen Firefighter Memorial held outside the Statehouse on…

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‘Our identity has been frozen in time’: How Native American advocates are influencing Springfield

May 12, 2025 / Comments Off on ‘Our identity has been frozen in time’: How Native American advocates are influencing Springfield

Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Amid the annual bustle at the Illinois Capitol during the legislative session’s midpoint, a sea of color and singing filled…

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Capitol News Illinois reporters win prestigious Peter Lisagor awards

May 10, 2025 / Comments Off on Capitol News Illinois reporters win prestigious Peter Lisagor awards

Capitol News Illinois Capitol News Illinois (CNI), a nonprofit news service, is proud to announce three of its reporters were nominated in four categories for…

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