Springfield News
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Comptroller Susana Mendoza’s office will no longer help municipalities in Illinois collect on unpaid red light camera tickets beginning next month, the Democrat announced Monday, telling reporters she was exercising her “moral authority” to withdraw tacit support from an industry she believed to be corrupt and a drain on poor Illinoisans.
Comptroller Susana Mendoza announces her office will no longer collect unpaid red light ticket debt on behalf of municipalities beginning Feb. 6, speaking to reporters at the corner of Western and Madison Avenues in Chicago on Monday. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
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Illinois brought in $3 billion more in state tax revenue in the 2019 fiscal year as compared with the previous year, according to a new report from the Illinois Department of Revenue.
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The number of children who died between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 after having prior contact with the Department of Children and Family Services rose 25 percent, according to a new report published Wednesday by the agency’s inspector general.
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The decennial Census in 2020 has already made news in Illinois for at least the last two years — especially given dismal predictions that the state stands to lose one, or even two, Congressional seats as the state continues to lose population.
But it’s what happens in 2021 with that Census data that will alter the course of Illinois politics for the next decade, as officials divvy up the state into voting districts.
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A settlement agreement between the family of an inmate who died of cancer while serving time in an Illinois state prison and company accused of failing to treat the prisoner is subject to Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
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Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday made a final legislative win for 2019 official, signing a bill he pushed for that will partially consolidate Illinois’ 649 downstate and suburban public safety pension systems into two statewide funds, with the promise that pooling investment resources will mean bigger returns.
Gov. JB Pritzker vowed Wednesday to address unfunded pension liabilities at all levels of government in Illinois. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
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After months of revelations about energy giant Exelon and its subsidiary ComEd’s lobbying activities in Springfield, the company was hit with a class action lawsuit in federal court this week, alleging the company made false statements and that it engaged in “unlawful lobbying activities.”
Exelon shareholder Joshua Flynn filed the federal securities lawsuit in Chicago on Monday. The complaint lays out a timeline of unflattering headlines about Exelon and its associates this summer and fall. The energy giant admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission that it’s been hit with two grand jury subpoenas this year. Flynn’s lawsuit links the revelation of the probes to falls in the firm’s stock prices.
