Dave McKinney
ReporterDave McKinney covers Illinois government and politics for WBEZ and was the long-time Springfield bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times.
-
While JB Pritzker has emphatically expressed his support of President Biden, he’s also not quashed the narrative that he has White House ambitions.
-
The standard exemption increase will mean an extra $69 or so for families of four. The tax credit will once again be tied to inflation after lawmakers last year quietly untied it.
-
A publishing company whose politically slanted newspapers have been derided as “pink slime” is being sued by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul for illegally identifying birthdates and home addresses of “hundreds of thousands” of voters.
-
Timothy Mapes was convicted of lying to a federal grand jury as part of an effort to thwart the feds’ probe into former House Speaker Michael Madigan.
-
The judge’s decision comes as Illinois’ primary is less than three weeks away. It’s likely to be appealed.
-
The Cook County judge denied Trump’s request to stay the challenge until after the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on similar challenges in other states, setting a Feb. 16 next court date.
-
The bipartisan board said they couldn’t take up the question of whether Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 barred him from running.
-
The hearing officer, a retired Republican judge, wrote a scathing assessment of Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection, but said the courts ultimately should decide. The full elections board will consider the matter Tuesday.
-
The more than 11 million Illinoisans who claim the standard exemption each year will not see an inflation-indexed bump for the 2023 tax year.
-
Five people working with a voting rights organization filed a formal objection, making Illinois the 18th state challenging Trump over his ties to the 2021 insurrection.