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State lawmakers approved ethics reforms Monday and early Tuesday morning that advocates said would bar elected officials from lobbying other units of government and interrupt the “revolving door” of lawmakers leaving and then returning to lobby the General Assembly. The package, which received bipartisan support in the Illinois House and Senate, also would give the legislative inspector general the power to initiate investigations of lawmakers without first receiving approval from a bipart...

Amanda Vinicky | June 1, 2021 8:26 am (WTTW News) Illinois Democrats used their supermajorities in the General Assembly to full advantage this weekend as their spring session reeled toward an end, pushing through a progressive agenda, an on-time $42 billion budget with no tax or fee hikes on individuals, and legislative maps that could help the party to continue to secure its in-state dominance into the future. Thanks to our sponsors: Even with complete control of the levers of power in Spr...

WBGZ Radio 6/1/2021 | By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network Illinois taxpayers with sticker shock from the $100 tax increase on the annual trailer tag implemented two years ago may soon get some relief.   A measure that drops the tax on utility trailers from $118 to $36 in exchange for a $5 increase in the fee for a vehicle title transfer to $155 is advancing at the statehouse with just one day left.   Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said Sunday the trailer fee increasing from $18 to ...

By Jeremy Coumbes on June 1, 2021 at 9:25am Trailer licensing fees are heading back down in Illinois. Lawmakers passed a bill yesterday that would reduce license sticker fees for trailers to $36.00. In 2019, the fees were raised from $18.00 a year to $118.00 for the state’s rebuild Illinois construction plan. Representative Avery Bourne says she thinks the passage of the bill is a long, long overdue correction. Members had hoped to reduce the fees back to $18.00, however, a ...

(The Center Square) – Illinois taxpayers with sticker shock from the $100 tax increase on the annual trailer tag implemented two years ago may soon get some relief. A measure that drops the tax on utility trailers from ...

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Raising the certificate title fee by $5, from $150 to $155, to replace the revenues lost from the lowered trailer fee

The Illinois House passed a bill that would lower small trailer license fees from $118 to $36, which lawmakers said on the House floor Sunday could remedy

WBGZ Radio 5/31/2021 | By Kevin Bessler - Illinois Radio Network Democrats released revised legislative maps Thursday evening and approved them the next night without any support from Republicans, who criticized the data used to draw the maps and the process by which the legislative districts were drawn. Last Friday, Democrats released draft legislative boundaries, but no data to back up how the lines were drawn. They held several hearings where community groups demanded the data be released. ...

Measure heads back to Senate for approval today.