Participants in the Illinois March for Life rally outside the Illinois State Capitol Tuesday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]   

Less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion activists from the national March for Life movement are taking their pitch to eradicate abortion in Illinois directly to state lawmakers. 

Rep. Jen Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview) speaks on the House floor Thursday. [Blue Room Stream]    

The House voted Thursday to approve a bill that will treat rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft the same under state law as other forms of transportation such as taxis and even public transportation providers.  

Rep. Lilian Jimenez (D-Chicago) speaks at a news conference with Attorney General Kwame Raoul, back right, in Chicago Monday. [State of Illinois]   

Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Monday he is backing legislation to amp up Illinois’ laws protecting employees from retaliation from their employers with a focus on protecting immigrants.  

Officials say current plans for a South Suburban Airport focus on cargo air traffic. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line] 

Rumors have floated for years about the possibility of building a third Chicago airport near south suburban Peotone in southern Will County — a mostly rural community on Interstate 57 about 45 miles south of downtown Chicago.  

The plan has never gained serious traction outside of occasional land purchases, appropriations for road construction and designs and studies by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). But a bill making its way through the Illinois House could give the project a new breath of life.  

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi.  

The House Revenue and Finance Committee held subject matter hearings on a group of proposals that could limit the estate tax and give the Cook County Assessor’s Office more data to make property value assessments.  

House Minority Leader Tony McCombie (R-Savanna) speaks at a news conference in Springfield Thursday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]   

A pair of bipartisan bills aimed at reducing fentanyl exposure are moving their way through the House as lawmakers stress the need to take action amid growing drug overdoses linked to fentanyl.  

Dr. Anja Brandon from the U.S. Plastics Policy at the Ocean Conservatory, left, and Andrea Densham from the Alliance for the Great Lakes, right, speak at a news conference Wednesday. [Alliance for the Great Lakes/Zoom]   

Environmental advocates are raising objections to a proposal to extend the deadline for a pilot project to build a pyrolysis or gasification facility in the south suburbs.  

Kankakee County State’s Attorney Jim Rowe holds a copy of the SAFE-T Act as he argues in front of the Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday. [Blue Room Stream]   

The fate of Illinois’ proposed elimination of cash bail is now in the hands of the Illinois Supreme Court after state’s attorneys and the Attorney General’s Office squared off in front of the Democrat-controlled court. 

Voting booths are set up in Chicago.

Illinois lawmakers are considering a pair of bills that could add ranked choice voting in Illinois for certain elections. 

Illinois Supreme Court 

The Illinois Supreme Court will hear a case Tuesday morning to decide the fate of Illinois’ highly controversial Pretrial Fairness Act — the portion of the SAFE-T Act that eliminates cash bail.