The Latest Breaking News from JB Pritzker

New book: Sen. Duckworth’s pushback after Biden rejects her for VP, worried about Thailand birth

“I’ve beaten every a—h—- who’s come after me with that,” Duckworth told Biden, recounted in “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 25, 2022

Republican Bailey vows to ‘take Illinois by storm’ in conservative campaign for governor

Darren Bailey’s conservative campaign is targeting those he says have been forgotten and left behind. “The Republican establishment and the Democrats, they don’t have any idea some of these people exist and what they’re thinking,” he told the Sun-Times. “I think that what we do here in Illinois,…

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 24, 2022

Don’t make privacy a victim of fighting crime

Automated license plate readers can catch suspects, but they also invade people’s personal lives.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 24, 2022

U.S. military hopes to mine tech brains in the Midwest with opening of new Chicago office

The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit also has offices on both coasts and in Texas.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 21, 2022

Washington group blames Illinois prison population’s nearly fourfold rise since 1970s on ‘extreme’ sentencing laws

FAMM is calling for a series of changes, including repealing mandatory sentences. But passing such reforms in Illinois will be tough this year.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 21, 2022

Locations announced for 3rd Willie Wilson gas giveaway

The $1 million giveaway is planned for Saturday at 16 locations in Chicago and 14 others in the suburbs, according to a post on Wilson’s Facebook page.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 21, 2022

Illinois COVID case rise ramps up — but ‘different than what we were seeing earlier,’ officials say

Illinois is now averaging 2,560 cases per day over the past week, a rate that has shot up 138% in the past month. Hospital admissions have also been creeping up. About 39 COVID-positive Illinoisans have checked into hospital beds each day over the past week, a 30% increase since April…

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 20, 2022

After long being mired in politics, Lincoln museum has ‘potential to be incredibly great’ under restructuring plan

CHICAGO — Ever since it opened late and over budget in 2005, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield has been regularly beset by problems tied to the historically transactional nature of Illinois politics.

Chicago Tribune · Apr 20, 2022

A state budget with ‘firm fiscal foundation’ that shows ‘tremendous progress?’ Or a ‘cynical’ election-year ploy to buy votes?

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a budget he said was designed to address past ‘fiscal mismanagement’ and ease the pain of residents socked by the pandemic and inflation. But Republicans dismissed it as nothing but temporary fixes and reelection campaign tricks.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 19, 2022

Giannoulias raises more cash than all other Democrats and Republicans in secretary of state race combined

Monday marked an Illinois State Board of Elections deadline to file a required quarterly report of contributions and expenditures, but a number of primary candidates had not yet filed their reports late Monday.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 19, 2022