Springfield News
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NOV 11, 2024
House Speaker Chris Welch (D-Hillside), left, and Republican Leader Tony McCombie (R-Savanna), right, at Inauguration Day in 2023. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
A hard-fought election appears it will leave the Illinois House exactly where it has stood for the past two years with Democrats maintaining their record 78-member supermajority and Republicans preserving their 40 seats.
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Gov. JB Pritzker holds a news conference in Chicago on Thursday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Illinois lawmakers return to Springfield on Tuesday and could begin lining up legislative responses to proposals made by incoming President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
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Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a Think Big America event during the Democratic National Convention in August. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Democrats’ top priority of electing Vice President Kamala Harris to help preserve reproductive rights nationally was rejected by voters. But Tuesday was a strong night for Gov. JB Pritzker’s Think Big America group as voters approved new abortion laws around the country.
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NOV 07, 2024
Former Gov. Pat Quinn holds a news conference in Springfield. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Illinois voters approved three advisory referendum questions on Tuesday night by a wide margin, including one that a former governor hopes will lead to changing the state constitution.
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Illinois Republican Party Chair Kathy Salvi at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Three Republican state representatives hold a narrow lead in their races as most ballots have been counted from Tuesday’s election and signal positive news for Illinois Republicans.
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U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen (D-Moline) speaks at a campaign event Tuesday night. [Eric Sorensen/Facebook]
The race in the only congressional district in Illinois viewed as a swing district wasn’t close, with incumbent U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen, a Democrat from Moline, pulling of a key victory in the battle to control Congress.
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NOV 04, 2024
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Polls close at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Illinois. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Illinois voters — who haven’t already cast an early or mail-in ballot — head to the polls on Tuesday with the presidential race at the top of their minds. But with Illinois expected send its electoral votes to Vice President Kamala Harris — as it has done for every Democratic presidential candidate since 1992 — eyes will be looking further down the ballot to see how General Assembly races shake out.
