Now law is the $750 million in tax increases to fund Illinois’ largest spending plan in state history. But so is a measure increasing the state’s debt by $8 billion while giving schools more taxing authority.

Pritzker signed the $53.1 billion budget Wednesday. Friday, he signed the tax measure that includes capping the credit businesses can get for claiming net operating losses and capping the discount retailers get for collecting and remitting sales taxes.

It’s not 1968.

But after anti-war, pro-Palestinian demonstrations roiled college campuses this spring and led to clashes between protesters and police, the specter of the chaos surrounding that summer’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago looms as the party returns in August to mark the renomination of President Joe Biden.

An appellate judge ruled Thursday that the Chicago Board of Education was within its rights to not renew Urban Prep Academies’ charter contract and that charter schools are not protected by the state’s school closing moratorium, which ends next year.

Chicago Public Schools says the ruling won’t have any immediate impact on Urban Preps’ 300-some students and that it will communicate any changes to families.

Approximately 55% of the more than 900 migrants evicted from city shelters had nowhere else to go, and continue to live in city facilities, Chicago officials told WTTW News.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration began enforcing a 60-day limit on shelter stays for most adults in mid-March, pledging to redouble efforts to help them live independently after many arrived on buses from the southern border paid for by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

When Pingree Grove’s new population figures were released a few years ago, village officials knew it would eventually result in a small windfall of new state revenue.

That’s because the state carves out a portion of its annual income tax haul for redistribution to municipalities based on population through its Local Government Distributive Fund.

The days where bars serve alcohol until 3 a.m. in the City of Springfield could be numbered.

Ordinance 2024-231 will be read at Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting for the first time.