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MAY 23, 2024
UNLOCKEDThe Illinois Capitol
The House advanced a large and wide-ranging tax incentives package designed to attract new businesses by creating new tax credits or expanding existing programs.
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MAY 22, 2024
UNLOCKEDThe City Council meets on March 20, 2024. [Michael McDevitt/The Daily Line]
The City Council on Wednesday will consider giving final confirmation votes to a new member of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) board and six members of the civilian police oversight commission. The council will also vote on a measure to restrict noise around a West Loop abortion clinic and create a pilot program to provide financial relief from skyrocketing water bills stemming from underground leaks.
Alderpeople are also expected to introduce a measure calling for the removal of CTA President Dorval Carter and call votes on some previously deferred items, including an order that would allow individual alderpeople to retain ShotSpotter technology on a ward-by-ward basis and the appointment of a new chief information officer. The council meets at 10 a.m.
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MAY 21, 2024
UNLOCKEDRep. Amy Elik (R-Godfrey) speaks at a news conference in Springfield on Thursday. [Blue Room Stream]
A bill that passed unanimously through the House in a rare move by Illinois lawmakers to create a new felony charge is hung up in the Senate.
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MAY 14, 2024
UNLOCKEDThe Illinois Capitol
The General Assembly is in their final weeks of the spring session with the budget the main focus for legislators ahead of their self-imposed May 24 deadline.
This spring’s session has been on the quiet side, though several important discussions loom for the fall or next spring — after the November elections. But legislators are still looking to send several important bills to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk before the end of the month.
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MAY 08, 2024
UNLOCKEDAlderpeople on Wednesday will consider a new transit board appointment that has drawn some questions, and the license committee will consider a measure to align a longstanding ban on peddlers within the 23rd Ward with the new ward boundaries.
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MAY 03, 2024
UNLOCKEDThe vote board in the Senate reflects votes on a plan to end the party appointment process for open spots on the ballot. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
In just 24 hours, General Assembly Democrats rammed through an elections package to change the rules around filling vacancies for political parties on the ballot as local Republicans in two areas in the state attempt to name new candidates to open seats on November’s ballot.
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MAY 03, 2024
UNLOCKEDCook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi is pictured at an event with Board President Toni Preckwinkle in 2022. [Don Vincent/The Daily Line]
As part of the ongoing reassessment of Chicago, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi’s office has reclassified numerous mixed-use properties as it works to address a loophole that the county inspector general said was allowing some commercial properties to unfairly get tax breaks.
While the affected properties were previously assessed as Class 3-18 multifamily properties, their commercial components are being assessed separately after a definition in the property tax classification code was revised — causing their total assessed values to skyrocket in many cases.
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MAY 03, 2024
UNLOCKEDComptroller Susana Mendoza speaks at the annual Illinois Police Officers Memorial at the Illinois Capitol on Thursday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza earned a standing ovation from Illinois police officers and their families on Thursday following a passionate speech at the annual Illinois Police Officers Memorial gathering at the State Capitol.
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MAY 02, 2024
UNLOCKEDThe Illinois Capitol
The House voted Wednesday to put three advisory referendum questions on the ballot for voters to consider on a range of subjects from insurance coverage to property taxes.
The bill also would prevent political parties from appointing candidates to fill open spots on the ballot in legislative races in a sudden political maneuver by House Democrats.
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APR 30, 2024
UNLOCKEDA CTA logo and train are pictured.
State lawmakers are proposing to consolidate the region’s four mass transit agencies into a single entity.
The push comes after the Civic Federation released a report last week that calls on the state to tie future financial support for the northeastern Illinois transit agencies — the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Metra and Pace — to reforms of the agencies’ structure and governance, specifically their centralization into one agency.
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