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Rep. Meier urges special session to remove Madigan as House Speaker following allegations of corruption
The level of corruption outlined by the FBI is just the beginning of our understanding of how Mike Madigan’s operation really works. Unfortunately as the days and weeks unfold, we’ll learn that the corruption problem in Illinois has tentacles that reach deep into the corporate and political institutions in our state. -
ComEd hit with class action lawsuits over its role in alleged Madigan bribery, patronage hiring scheme
Northern Illinois' largest electrical utility was hit with two class action lawsuits, demanding it repay its customers perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars for allegedly using a bribery scheme to curry favor with Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to pass laws that allowed it to rack up hundreds of millions of dollars, or more, in profit, since at least 2011. -
Madigan out? But what about the machine?
House Speaker Mike Madigan’s iron grip on Illinois could be nearing an end. -
New lawsuits assert IL COVID disaster not widespread enough to justify further emergency declarations from Pritzker
Attorney Tom DeVore, who has led many legal challenges against Gov. JB Pritzker's use of emergency powers in response to COVID-19, has filed several more asserting the COVID pandemic doesn't qualify as a "public health emergency" under state law. -
State rep on bill that would repeal $2.35 billion ComEd bailout: ‘Guy in a scandal has oversight of the scandal’
CHICAGO – House Speaker Michael Madigan pitched a $2.35 billion bailout of Commonwealth Edison’s nuclear power plants as a green energy bill, but ComEd’s bribery confession shows green currency may have meant more to him. -
House Speaker Michael Madigan implicated in ComEd bribery scheme
Federal prosecutors said Madigan, through his associates, demanded "old fashioned patronage" for his associates and allies in exchange for supporting legislation that steered hundreds of millions of dollars from electrical customers to ComEd. -
Pritzker 'Fair Tax' would allow for double, triple taxation on same $1 earned
The progressive tax amendment on the ballot Nov. 3 removes the constitutional prohibition on multiple taxation, in addition to removing the flat tax protection. -
Southern IL judge rules Pritzker overstepped bounds in imposing COVID orders
The ruling hands a win to State Rep. Darrent Bailey, R-Xenia, in his challenge asserting state law does not give Gov. JB Pritzker the power to continue issuing emergency executive orders without authorization from Illinois lawmakers. -
Illinois Supreme Court says no to destruction of police misconduct records
SPRINGFIELD – Chicago’s police union can’t enforce a provision in its contract for destruction of misconduct records, the Supreme Court ruled on June 18. -
Republican Ciampoli announces bid for House district held by Democrat Stuart
Lisa Ciampoli, a local nurse anesthetist and former Madison County Board member, announced her campaign as a Republican for state representative of the 112th District today. -
COVID-19 recession could double Illinois’ delinquent mortgage rate in 2020
Up to 130,000 Illinois homeowners could fall behind on their mortgage payments if state lawmakers fail to provide relief. -
Illinois gas tax set for automatic increase July 1
State lawmakers last summer doubled Illinois’ gas tax to help pay for capital projects. Each year the gas tax automatically rises, shielding lawmakers from responsibility for hikes. -
Earth to Springfield: We have a problem!
You can’t pour a gallon of liquid into a quart container. -
Bailey: Pritzker still 'forum shopping' in legal dispute over whether guv's COVID orders overstepped authority
State Rep. Darren Bailey says Gov. JB Pritzker has gone to "great lengths to contrive" legal reasons to avoid allowing a southern Illinois county judge to rule on the question of whether Pritzker had the authority to shut down the state in response to COVID-19. -
How did we get this kind of political leadership?
Illinois Rep. Katie Stuart and her middle school principal husband might want to question the value of their son's education at the University of Vermont. -
Despite business, lawmaker suits, Pritzker grants himself emergency powers for 4th time
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker for the fourth time extended by 30 days his emergency powers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses and lawmakers are amending lawsuits in response. -
63 former state lawmakers receiving more than $100K pensions
Illinois’ broken pension system puts $100,000 a year or more into the hands of 63 former state lawmakers. It has paid more than $1 million to 95 of them. -
Pritzker: Rep. Bailey's challenge of guv's COVID power belongs in federal court, despite DOJ opinion otherwise
Gov. JB Pritzker's reply to filings by State Rep. Darren Bailey and the U.S. Justice Department opposing him does not address accusations the governor is "forum shopping" in the dispute over whether the case belongs in federal or southern Illinois county court. -
Illinois lawmakers pass Election Day holiday for government workers only
Election Day 2020 would be a paid holiday for all government workers – at an unknown cost to already ailing local governments. -
148,654 Illinois government pension millionaires!
Government pensions affect every taxpayer in Illinois. Now Gov. JB Pritzker’s pension madness threatens to reach across the state and ravage taxpayers with the most insidious effect of Covid-19: theft of taxpayer wealth.