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High courts in Wisconsin and Michigan have both ruled governors cannot repeatedly issue disaster declarations as a basis for mask mandates and other orders without legislative approval. A year into the pandemic, Illinois’ governor is still doing it.
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Fifty words, added to the Illinois Constitution as an amendment, could be what helps save the state from an inevitable financial collapse in years to come.
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A bipartisan ‘spending cap’ bill would allow predictable, sustainable growth in state spending without tax hikes. Illinois is one of the few states without a similar fiscal restraint.
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Illinois has more units of local government than any other state and the second-highest property taxes in the nation. House Bill 1861 would have given Illinoisians the power to potentially reduce both at the ballot box. Illinois is home to nearly nearly 6,000, layers of government, excluding school districts – over 1,000 more than Indiana,...
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In January 2021, the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation that seeks to dramatically change the law in Illinois with respect to an award of prejudgment interest in personal injury lawsuits.
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The measure establishes 6% prejudgment interest in personal injury lawsuits, and was still opposed by Illinois doctors, manufacturers and others who fear it will hammer businesses with inflated costs from lawsuits.
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CHICAGO – The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals must decide whether years of failure to protect privacy of biometric data should count as a violation of Illinois law worth $1,000 or many violations that could add up to $1 million.
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“The state must pare back its portfolio so that it can better fulfill its basic obligations to its citizens,” opined Nicole Kurokawa in the 2010 Illinois Piglet Book, a joint project of the Illinois Policy Institute and Citizens Against Government Waste that identified more than $350 million in wasteful spending.
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The Illinois legislature’s biggest failure during the pandemic has been its complete abdication of responsibility over the management of the pandemic itself – Gov. Pritzker has been running the state’s response via executive fiat for over a year.
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Lawyers for the state and for one of Illinois' more prominent conservative taxpayers argued before the Illinois Supreme Court over whether taxpayers have the right at all to challenge state lawmakers' borrowing practices in court.
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“Stop, in the name of the Illinois General Assembly!”
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U.S. Representative Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) released the following statement after Democrats in the U.S. House voted on a party line basis to approve Congressional Democrats’ partisan stimulus bill.
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A proposal to reform provisions in the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act used for years by lawyers to target employers over technical violations of the law, drew rare bipartisan support in an Illinois state House committee vote on March 9.
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Illinois worst-in-the-nation public pension debt grew 19% year over year. It will continue hurting the state economy and job growth, driving more people out of Illinois, unless there are reforms.
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Chief Justice Anne M. Burke and the Illinois Supreme Court announced today an order for the creation of a new Supreme Court Statutory Court Fees Task Force (“Task Force”) to replace the original 15-member Task Force created under the Access to Justice Act.
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The new speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives referred to state lawmakers’ statements of economic interest forms as confusing and a ‘worthless piece of document.’ They can be fixed.
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Illinois state lawmakers recently approved a rule requiring Illinois teacher training programs to adopt ‘culturally responsive teaching and leading’ standards. Critics say a political litmus test is the wrong focus when students are underachieving on the basics.
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Because of a pension sweetener for politicians that Madigan helped create, the former speaker’s pension will spike more than $66,000 the year after his first full year of retirement, then grow 3% each year thereafter.
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U.S. Representatives Mike Bost (IL-12), Rodney Davis (IL-13), Darin LaHood (IL-18), and Mary Miller (IL-15) issued the following joint statement upon the resignation of longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who has served in the Illinois House since 1971.
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U.S. Representatives Rodney Davis (IL-13), Darin LaHood (IL-18), Mike Bost (IL-12), and Mary Miller (IL-15) issued the following joint statement upon the resignation of longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who has served in the Illinois House since 1971.