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JAN 05, 2026
Democratic candidates for Illinois’ open comptroller seat raised more than $750,000 in donations over $1,000 in the fourth quarter, with State Rep. Margaret Croke (D-Chicago) raising just under half a million.
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JAN 02, 2026
Suburban businessman Rick Heidner raised more than $1.5 million from large donations in the fourth quarter, including a $1 million donation to his own campaign.
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DEC 31, 2025
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit last week challenging two new Illinois laws creating a right of private action against federal immigration officers and banning civil immigration arrests in state courthouses.
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DEC 30, 2025
Illinois hotels will eliminate small single-use plastic bottles, employers must give time off to parents with kids in the Neonatal Incentive Care Unit (NICU) and libraries will begin carrying opioid overdose reversal medication under new state laws going into effect Jan. 1.
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DEC 29, 2025
The New Year means more than 300 new laws will go into effect in Illinois.
Measures enhancing gun storage requirements, prohibiting police from enforcing a waiting period before filing a missing person's report and regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI), will become law Jan. 1.
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DEC 23, 2025
Attorney General Kwame Raoul and a coalition of attorneys general sued the Trump administration Monday to stop the defunding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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DEC 22, 2025
Federal immigration agents at the Broadview processing center in September. Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The Illinois Accountability Commission held their first public hearing last week, hearing testimony on the use of chemical agents on protestors in the Chicago area.
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DEC 19, 2025
The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) board of directors approved 2026 operating budgets for Chicago-area public transit agencies that avoid layoffs and cuts to services.
The board also approved a capital program that utilizes new funds from a transit reform and revenue law signed by the governor this week.
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DEC 18, 2025
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) continued its series of budget hearings and approved the legislative agenda for the 2026 legislative session on Wednesday.
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DEC 17, 2025
After nearly a year of negotiations and hearings, a $1.5 billion revenue and reform package for transit agencies in Illinois was signed by Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday.
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