SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf is scheduled to meet with Illinois legislative leaders on Tuesday in Springfield as he seeks state funding for a new baseball stadium in Chicago’s South Loop. A spokesperson for House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said the Hillside Democrat is set to meet with Reinsdorf Tuesday afternoon. A spokesperson for Democratic Senate President ...
State leaders on Thursday threw more cold water on the prospect of quickly providing new funding to help Chicago’s migrant crisis as Mayor Brandon Johnson also grapples with resistance from aldermen who have declined to identify land in their wards for Johnson’s plans to set up tent base camps for new asylum-seekers before winter. During an appearance with Gov. J.B. Pritzker, House Speaker ...
After complaints from his staff that he rebuffed their efforts to organize, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch on Tuesday filed a bill that would allow his employees and other legislative staffers within the state government to unionize. About 20 of Welch’s staffers late last year declared their intentions to form a union in an effort to secure higher wages and better benefits. The employees, ...
Illinois House Democrats say they will no longer work with a Washington, D.C.-based public relations firm that helped guide then-Speaker Michael Madigan on sexual harassment issues at the same time it was orchestrating support for a campaign worker who said she had been harassed by one of Madigan’s lieutenants. House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, who succeeded Madigan in 2021, made the ...
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch joined “Chicago Tonight” for a one-on-one conversation about the spring legislative session, recently passed $50 billion state budget and asylum seekers.
The agreement included a summary of top-line spending in fiscal responsibility, education, fighting poverty, health and human services and economic development.
Illinois Democrats have the ranks to pass a new state budget, but an inability to agree on spending figures means they blew past Friday’s deadline and will return to the capitol next week in another attempt to get the job done.