With tariff and immigration policies impacting businesses nationwide, the Illinois House International Relations, Tourism and Trade Committee met Thursday to hear how the state could assist Illinois’ manufacturing and tourism businesses. 

The Illinois House meets Oct. 15 in Springfield. [Camryn Cutinello/The Daily Line]

As Illinois lawmakers discuss a measure that would disband and replace the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), the authority’s leaders joined the House Executive Committee Wednesday to discuss how Chicago-area transit could be improved.  

The hearing comes as lawmakers are in Springfield for the fall veto session, with a bill to reform Chicago-area transit on the table.  

  

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a lawsuit Tuesday against State Farm Insurance seeking the release of homeowner insurance data.  

The governor’s budget office is anticipating the fiscal year 2026 budget will be more than $200 million out of balance, due largely to changes in federal tax law included in the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”   

The report also anticipates a $2.2 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year.  

The House Revenue and Finance Committee met Friday to hear three property tax bills intended to improve transparency in the review process for appeals and modernize assessor data retention. 

Protestors and Illinois State Police at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview. [Paul Goyette/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0]

A federal judge partially granted Illinois’ request to temporarily block the deployment of National Guard troops Thursday. 

The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP) on Chicago’s South Side will have another future tenant, hosting quantum computing company Pasqal’s U.S. headquarters.

National Guard troops and protestors in Los Angeles in June 2025 [U.S. Northern Command, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons]

Attorneys from the Illinois Attorney General’s office and the Department of Justice will meet in court Thursday for oral arguments in Illinois’ lawsuit against the deployment of the National Guard in the state. 

An Illinois energy omnibus bill expected to be called during the fall veto session would establish an integrated resource planning (IRP) process in Illinois. 

Protestors in Broadview on Sept. 26. [Paul Goyette/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0]

After more than a month of back-and-forth, the state has sued the Trump administration over orders to deploy federalized National Guard troops in Illinois.