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Illinois law protects immigrants from arrest near courthouses, hospitals or colleges

Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares

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Illinois lawmakers approve ban on immigration arrests near courthouses

Illinois lawmakers have approved legislation prohibiting immigration arrests near courthouses

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Amid concerns about kids and guns, some say training is the answer

The number of U.S. children dying from gunshot wounds has climbed in recent years. Keeping guns out of reach is one way to curb the trend — others argue to teach kids to handle guns responsibly.

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The fight over public utility rate hikes in Illinois is far from over

Organized labor and the business community are demanding far more robust infrastructure spending, while the governor’s people point to very real cost considerations for consumers.

Chicago Sun-Times

With one year till Chicagoans elect the school board for the first time, here’s what’s still being worked out

Lawmakers haven’t settled on a voting map and floated a last-minute proposal to accelerate moving to a fully elected board.

Chicago Sun-Times

CTU got what it wanted with elected school board bill, then did an about face

Stacy Davis Gates complained online that reporters didn’t ask the CTU about the union’s reasons for not supporting a bill that would have given it a fully elected board right away.

Chicago Sun-Times

Unfinished assignment: Lawmakers leave Springfield without final plan for Chicago elected school board

Divisions over the city’s elected school board remain — including disagreement over how many members should be appointed versus elected next year. The issue will likely be kicked to January when legislators return for the lame duck session.

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Incomplete grade? Chicago elected school board plan stalls amid House, Senate divisions

While the Illinois House on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow for the election of 10 board members and the appointment of 10 others by Mayor Brandon Johnson in 2024, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon said the plan includes “woefully inadequate ethical provisions” and said he would…

Chicago Sun-Times

Under new proposal, all Chicago Board of Education members would be elected by next year

An amendment filed by Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, would allow the board to be fully elected as soon as next year by splitting up memberships to two and four-year terms.

Chicago Sun-Times

Advocates angered by delay in passing ‘Karina’s Bill,’ aimed at taking guns from those accused of domestic violence

“There’s no reason that they couldn’t call this bill and save additional lives in Illinois, and they simply chose not to,” said Amanda Pyron of the Network, a coalition of advocacy groups for victims of domestic violence.

Chicago Sun-Times

Don’t give Cook County nursing homes a property tax break

The tax break would come at the expense of other property owners, who already are “overburdened,” according to a 2020 report from county Treasurer Maria Pappas.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County residents shouldn’t pay for nursing home tax breaks

Let Gov. J.B Pritzker’s veto of a provision for millions in tax breaks stand. It doesn’t help that a key backer of legislation for nursing home tax breaks got $2 million in campaign cash from the industry.

Chicago Sun-Times

It’s a rotten deal when lawmakers take campaign cash, then give tax breaks to nursing home group

Good thing Gov. Pritzker vetoed the legislation Aug. 11, but now the Health Care Council wants the Illinois House and Senate to override the governor’s veto.

Chicago Sun-Times

Nursing home industry gives big to Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, who goes to bat for it on bid for tax breaks

Harmon’s campaign funds have gotten nearly $2 million from a nursing home trade group. He’s supporting legislation that would provide millions in property tax relief for nursing homes in Cook County.

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Senate President Don Harmon gives back red-light camera company’s campaign cash after Sun-Times report

His spokesman says it was an “oversight” that Harmon’s campaign funds took the money after the Oak Park Democrat voted to ban contributions from red-light camera operators.

Chicago Sun-Times

Backing ban on red-light camera campaign cash, then taking the money is just hypocrisy

Sure, the amounts some state lawmakers accepted were relatively small sums and dispersed before the reform bill was signed into law. But no means no.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois lawmakers banned campaign contributions from red-light camera companies but take them anyway

Among those accepting campaign contributions after supporting what was portrayed as reform legislation: Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park.

Chicago Sun-Times

Senate Democrats, business groups at odds over biometric privacy law

The Illinois Supreme Court all but begged the General Assembly to take another look at the Biometric Information Privacy Act in a ruling that could ultimately cost the White Castle burger chain billions for collecting employee fingerprint scans.

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Democrats choose community activist and CTU worker Tara Stamps to fill Mayor Brandon Johnson’s old County Board seat

Stamps was one of six candidates interviewed Tuesday evening by Democratic leaders representing the Chicago wards and suburban townships that make up the district that Johnson was previously elected to serve as a Cook County commissioner.

Chicago Sun-Times

Civic Committee aims to tackle crime from a new perspective

The Civic Committee has evolved from a standard business group issuing standard business demands to taking a much more nuanced, holistic approach to solving very difficult, perhaps intractable problems like crime.

Chicago Sun-Times

Civic Committee recommendations on pensions, estate tax getting a look from lawmaker

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon says he thinks the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago offers “a very interesting blueprint.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Todd Maisch dies at 57: Illinois Chamber of Commerce leader and business ‘champion’

State officials remembered Todd Maisch as an advocate for the business community who could find common ground between adversaries across political lines.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker, Democratic leaders take victory lap for reaching budget deal — and only drag their feet a bit in actually filing bill

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced agreement on a budget they said was balanced “without gimmicks.” Six hours later, Democrats filed the legislation, which must still pass both chambers before the governor can sign it.

Chicago Sun-Times

State lawmakers fail to finish budget, school district map, so they plan to try again next week

The General Assembly had planned to adjourn Friday, but Democratic leaders blew that self-imposed deadline. So lawmakers will return to Springfield on Wednesday to wrap up unfinished business, which includes the state budget and the elected school board map.

Chicago Sun-Times

Democrats’ all-gender bathroom, gun lawsuit bills prompt heated debate — with GOP warnings of court challenges, violence

State Sen. Neil Anderson, R-Andalusia, told lawmakers that he would “beat the living p---” out of any man who walked into a restroom with his daughter. State Senate Majority Leader Kim Lightford said GOP critics “don’t understand that life is evolving.”

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