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Consumer advocates will attempt Wednesday to turn up the pressure on Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Commerce Commission over Peoples Gas’ expensive pipe-replacement program that critics blame for causing Chicago heating bills to skyrocket.
A crew works in 2015 to replace a gas line in Portage Park. [Heather Cherone/DNAinfo Chicago]
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Tuesday marks Gov. JB Pritzker’s 100th day in office — a milestone most lawmakers will celebrate away from Springfield during their two-week spring break before a final push to the end of the session May 31.
Gov. JB Pritzker addresses the news media. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
In a brief interview with The Daily Line on Monday, Pritzker counted a $15 minimum wage law, signing a gun dealer licensing law and a law that raises the smoking age to 21 among his accomplishments. Pritzker said he was proud of his proposal of rates for a graduated income tax, his signature issue, and his budget plan, which he presented to lawmakers in February.
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Before leaving town for the General Assembly’s two-week spring break, senators approved a bill that would allow for any of Illinois’ 10 existing riverboat casinos to pick up and move anywhere in the state — freeing them from a decades-long rule that confined casinos in Illinois to riverboats.
A gaming table. [Ralf Steinberger/Flickr]
The bill passed April 11 on a vote of 44-5, with 10 senators not voting.
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In a landmark decision Thursday, the Illinois Supreme Court set a bright line for juvenile prison sentences at 40 years and ordered the re-sentencing of Dmitri Buffer, who is currently serving a 50-year term for a murder he committed when he was 16.
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The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday ruled a Wonder Lake man accused of repeatedly touching a 9-year-old girl’s vagina when he babysat her could not avoid a retrial after a jury deadlocked — even though he had claimed it was double jeopardy and an appellate court agreed.
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Lawmakers peppered the state agency that administers violence-prevention grants to community organizations with tough questions after 24 people were shot, three fatally, on one of the first warm weekends of the summer.
State Sen. Mattie Hunter (D-Chicago) urged the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority to step up violence prevention efforts before summer starts. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line; submitted]
Many worry the uptick in violence signals a bloody summer to come that officials are unprepared to address.
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As Mayor Rahm Emanuel pointed out Tuesday, Gov. JB Pritzker has been in office for nearly 100 days.
But Pritzker’s campaign committee kept on spending during the first quarter of 2019, according to the most recent report filed by JB for Governor with state officials.
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APR 17, 2019
The American Conservative Union Foundation on Tuesday rated the General Assembly’s as being much less conservative in 2018 as compared with 2017, according to the group’s annual scorecard out this week, while the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America backed two bills designed to expand access to abortion.
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Fresh off weeks of consistent action in Springfield — most of which has been colored by the debate over a proposed graduated income tax — a bipartisan foursome of lawmakers took the issue to the City Club of Chicago Monday amid the continuing dispute over whether such a constitutional change would chase the wealthiest taxpayers out of Illinois.
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Members of the Senate Black Caucus are fighting a bill that would force private firms to pay their workers the prevailing wage in an area — a move the business community claims is tantamount to “forced unionization” — at least until trade unions can promise meaningful inclusion of minority workers in their ranks.
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