Lawmakers trying again to regulate industry as Pritzker moves to pause incentives

U of I ranks second among Big Ten schools in admitting in-state students.

Gov. JB Pritzker presented his spending plan to lawmakers this week. We discuss the package and the reaction to it.

Fidel Marquez secretly recorded meetings for feds, testified in 2 trials

Jackson died this week. He was 84.

Illinois lawmakers were caught off guard by the team’s embrace of Indiana effort

The measure would require producers to establish and finance the programs within 2 years

In Illinois, six grant awards to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois-Chicago that are collectively worth over $20 million — which Raoul said are to “make the electricity grid more reliable and resilient, reduce carbon emissions, and utilize domestic sources of rare earth elements and critical minerals” — were on the chopping block.

Reaction to Gov. JB Pritzker’s combined State of the State and fiscal year 2027 budget address fell largely along partisan lines as Democrats offered muted praise while Republicans dismissed his affordability message as campaign-style rhetoric.

In his eighth State of the State address, Gov. Pritzker focused on affordability issues affecting Illinois residents and blamed President Donald Trump for the state’s tight financial condition.

Gov. JB Pritzker spoke before a join session of the Illinois General Assembly Wednesday Feb. 18, 2026.

As Illinois awaits court decisions about federal funding cuts and braces for even further cuts amid rising costs, Gov. JB Pritzker is proposing limited new spending — and yearning for “normal problems.”