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Lawmakers voted over objections from Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

POLITICO Get the Illinois Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by the Paul Simon-Jim Edgar Statesmanship Award Good Tuesday morning, Illinois. We pulled an all-nighter at the Capitol and follow...

She said upwards of 2,500 people would be out of work if those plants close. “So there’s a lot on the line if this doesn’t pass by tomorrow (Monday) night at midnight,” Rezin said. “We’ve been working on a bill with all of the stakeholders for two years, talking about the need to recognize that nuclear is a carbon-free energy, and it’s the lowest cost.” Illinois became the first state in the nation to pass a nuclear subsidy law to prevent threatened plant shutdowns in 2016, w...

Illinois lawmakers are approaching the end of this year’s spring session facing a backlog of unresolved issues, including a state budget, redistricting, law enforcement reform and others.

Two more Northwest suburban vaccination clinics announced   State officials Wednesday announced two more COVID-19 vaccination clinics coming to the Northwest suburbs. On Friday, April 30, Saturday, May 1, and Monday, May 3, the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois Department of Human Services will host a vaccination site at the North Suburban Family Community Resource Center, located on the fourth floor at 3501 Algonquin Road in Rolling Meadows.   Anyone age 16 and olde...

* Greg Hinz on some new push-back against Sen. Rob Martwick’s elected school board bill… In a letter to Senate President Don Harmon, House Speaker Chris Welch and leaders of the Latino and Black caucuses, groups including the Chicago Urban League and Latino Policy Forum stop short of endorsing a bill proposed by Lightfoot to elect only a few members of the board, allowing the mayor to continue to appoint most. But the letters emphasize the importance of certain clauses that are in Lightfoo...

Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford really has her work cut out for her if she wants to forge a compromise on an elected Chicago school board. Lightford agreed to become the sponsor of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s alternative school board proposal last week. Sen. Rob Martwick (D-Chicago) has been pushing a bill for years that would elect 21 school board members, which have long been appointed by the city’s mayor. Leader Lightford has a reputation among the education establi...

Seth Perlman/AP file An elected school board in Chicago and expanding fertility treatment coverage to include same-sex couples and women over 35 were among the measures that advanced in the General Assembly Wednesday, the second day legislators met in Springfield — and virtually — for session. House members voted in favor of legislation that would amend the state’s insurance code to provide coverage for the “diagnosis and treatment of infertility … without discrimination on the basis ...

Mayor Haircut about to be rolled again. The Empress has no clothes An elected school board means that CPS can be run as effectively as the rest of Chicago. /s/ The irony of Lightfoot working against her campaign promise (albeit a compromise) is so Lori Lightfoot and her ineptitude at both governing and politics. Reality? Things like that happen with no allies. Pathetic. Rob Martwick kneecaps property taxpayers once again doing the bidding of public sector unions === Rob Martwick=== Are you also...

Seth Perlman, AP file Chicago voters would get to decide who sits on the city’s school board in the next two municipal elections under a bill that passed the Illinois House on Thursday and now moves to the state Senate. All Chicago-based legislators voted in favor of advancing the bill, which would allow for the election of members of the Chicago Board of Education “for the 2023 and 2027 consolidated primary elections only” and requires the General Assembly to “review and revise the ele...