Illinois State Politics
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Blame high taxes, excessive regulations for businesses fleeing IllinoisAug 30, 2025 12:45 pm - Illinois has a remarkable entrepreneurial spirit, but too many of our businesses don’t stay. In the past several years, companies including Takeda, Caterpillar, Highland Ventures and Tyson have all fled Illinois’ suburbs and moved their headquarters out of state.
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‘We do not need you here’: Lake County officials reject Trump’s immigration pushAug 29, 2025 5:39 pm - Lake County community and elected leaders pushed back Friday on the use of Naval Station Great Lakes to stage federal immigration and homeland security personnel.
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Former Elgin school board member running for state SenateAug 29, 2025 12:57 pm - A former Elgin Area Unit District U-46 board member who’s run for other offices through the years has launched a state Senate campaign.
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‘Extremely unusual’: Former Illinois National Guard chief on Trump threat to dispatch troops to ChicagoAug 29, 2025 9:29 am - Sending a military force on a civilian mission upends U.S. code, Arlington Heights expert says.
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What to make of Trump’s push to end cashless bail in IllinoisAug 29, 2025 4:15 am - Despite President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funding, don’t expect the Illinois General Assembly to make wholesale changes to the SAFE-T Act this fall, a suburban lawmaker says.
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Gun rights groups ask U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Cook County assault weapons ban
Aug 28, 2025 6:05 pm - Two national gun rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Cook County’s ban on assault-style weapons in hopes that such a decision would overturn similar bans nationally, including the statewide ban Illinois lawmakers enacted in 2023.
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‘We’ve been fighting crime,’ Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claimsAug 28, 2025 8:00 am - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime, showing off parts of the city where violent crime has decreased and saying sending in the National Guard could only escalate problems.
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DuPage County will spend up to $147K to retain Springfield lobbyistsAug 26, 2025 6:55 pm - DuPage County will spend up to $147,000 to have a pair of lobbying firms represent their interests in Springfield for another year.
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From ‘The Swamp’ to the Fiji jungle, Schakowsky staffer runs his own campaign on ‘Survivor’Aug 26, 2025 11:18 am - “You’re going to go, and you’re going to win,“ congresswoman tells staffer headed to Fiji island for Survivor Season 49.
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DOJ demands Illinois voter personal information by Sept. 1