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BREAKING: Three judge panel upholds Democrat-drawn redistricting plan

THE ILLINOIZE: Guest hosted by former IL GOP Chairman Pat Brady...Redistricting ruling could happen this week...Chicago to tighten vaccine and testing requirements, will state follow?

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Friday Update

THE ILLINOIZE: Guest hosted by Tim Drea of the Illinois AFL-CIO...BREAKING: Griffin to fund GOP slate of candidates...Pritzker agrees to sell Thompson Center...Hutchinson leaving administration

THE ILLINOIZE: Wednesday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Guest hosted by Matt Paprocki of the Illinois Policy Institute...Potential drama over Murphy replacement...Aurora Mayor polling for Gov's race...Bailey's running mate on defense

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Guest hosted by Bruce St. James of WLS-AM...Rep. Delia Ramirez for Congress...Lauf shifts targets...More school mask fights...Historic new U.S. Attorney downstate

THE ILLINOIZE: Wednesday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Guest hosted by Jim Leach of WMAY-AM...High noon for redistricting suit in federal court...FOID backlog being reduced...Get COVID and pay for your own health care?

The Illinoize: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Guest hosted by John Shimkus...Bailey campaign distances from supporter charged in insurrection..."Rape in Champaign" e-mail resurfaces...ComEd rate hike...Rodney Davis, the troll?

THE ILLINOIZE: Wednesday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Guest hosted by Bill Enyart...Majority Leader Harris to retire...Davis to announce run for Congress, not Governor...Greg Harris to retire...Redistricting suit headed for court showdown

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: House GOP to propose inflation tax credit...Gryder considering run for congress...Pekau officially in 6th district race...Zalewski's new podcast...Manzullo on civility

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Suburban chips starting to fall into place?...Controversial Orland Park mayor to run for Congress

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: More on that poll...My, how a year changes things...Dan Brady announces for Secretary of State today...Caulkins to run in new 88th

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker's poll numbers...Wallace talks more like a moderate...Ambiguous dollars in Infrastructure bill

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Poll Shows Pritzker with Strong Support One Year from Election

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Diving into the GOP map proposal...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

BREAKING: Davis to run for re-election to Congress, pass on Pritzker challenge, Radio host Koolidge to run in 14th

THE ILLINOIZE: Why D'Amico quit...Congressional updates

THE ILLINOIZE: What changes will Republicans ask for in legislative maps?...Pritzker in Scotland says climate change a "crisis"....We answer your questions!

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

Friday Afternoon Redistricting Update

THE ILLINOIZE...The Guerrero-Cuellar entry into the redistricting spat...Team Budzinski gives very vague answers on residency

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

BREAKING: Rep. Mark Batinick won't seek re-election

THE ILLINOIZE: Rep. Mike Murphy likely to resign...Why is the mask mandate still in place?

THE ILLINOIZE: Anti-vaxxers try to shut down Governor's event with disabled kids...Pritzker heads to Europe...Rosenthal to challenge McClure...Talkin' Maps...Five years since Game 7

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Rosenthal to challenge McClure

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

Friday Afternoon Update: Kinzinger, Newman, Davis, Miller

THE ILLINOIZE: Inside the drama on the final day of veto session...Newman gets hosed in final congressional map...Mary Miller making calls about the 15th?...Dale Righter leaving SGOP staff

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

BREAKING: New Congressional Map Released

THE ILLINOIZE: East St. Louis suit folded into existing legislative map case...Senate votes to repeal PNA...Interview with Judge Daniel Shanes, who announced for Supreme Court yesterday

THE ILLINOIZE: What are Davis and Kinzinger thinking?...Pritzker's plan to vaccinate kids...Electric vehicle, "Health Care Right of Conscience" language emerges ahead of veto session

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

BREAKING: New Congressional Map Released

THE ILLINOIZE: BREAKING: Dems ask if legislative map is still legal...The absurdity of the DeVore lawsuit...One-on-one with Butler on redistricting

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: What's next for legislative maps?...A new congressional map likely today...How a fed up school superintendent responded to a dumb FOIA

BREAKING: Federal Court declares May legislative map unconstitutional...Will give Dems opportunity to show how August map fixed the issues

THE ILLINOIZE: The latest lawsuit over legislative maps...More on congressional map...Stadelman or West in the new 17th?....Durkin blames Foxx on guns...What will Pritzker say about COVID?

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

Saturday Update: Fundraising numbers

Friday Afternoon Update: Congressional map story, Fundraising updates

BREAKING: Congressional map released

THE ILLINOIZE: What's going to happen during veto session?...Why judicial subcircuits could be the hot topic you haven't heard anything about

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker supports repeal of parental notification law during veto session...What's next for Schimpf?

THE ILLINOIZE: Sullivan's message test...Who should the GOP candidates pick for LG?...African American group wants DOJ review of legislative map

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Congressional Dems have been working on map over past few weeks...Another ruling against ISBE rules...Chicago's independent redistricting option

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: What is a "fair" congressional map?...When billionaires attack...How ISBE is handling schools defying mask mandate

THE ILLINOIZE: No flood of eviction cases yet...Bryant responds to Sun-Times...Griffin unloads on Pritzker

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Bears shouldn't count on state help...Brawl brewing in southern Illinois

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: The "wait and see" game with legislative maps...What's in these school lawsuits?...Biden trip canceled...Good COVID booster guide

THE ILLINOIZE: Burke and O'Brien showdown looms for Supreme Court...Democrats caught maskless at soiree...Niemerg and Miller headed for showdown?...Cyril Nichols...Ask me anything

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Michael Burke Announces Campaign Monday

THE ILLINOIZE: What happens when eviction moratorium expires Oct. 3?...DC GOP bigwigs keeping their eyes on Kinzinger for Senate...Dem primary shaping up in Quad Cities...Trump Tower

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Caulkins weighing races vs. Brady, Scherer, or Turner...Recall amendment would only be advisory...A letter to a friend

THE ILLINOIZE: Illinois GOP launching "election integrity" committee...The law cited against mandatory vaccines...First state employee union agrees to vax requirement

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Clearing up the recall buzz...Who replaces Cronin in DuPage?...GOP polling expected soon

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: If maps don't change, Rep. Mike Murphy won't run for re-election...May run for Springfield Mayor in 2023...Legislative panel pushes back on ISBE over school mask mandate punishments

THE ILLINOIZE: Will the energy bill help or hurt? Depends on who you ask...Potential for lawsuit...Jesse Sullivan's residency issues

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: New energy bill passes House...Senate vote Monday...Sullivan in for Governor...Carol Marin's harrowing story...Daley, Shimkus, Davis, Radogno, Zorn, and others remember 9/11

BREAKING: Energy deal reached

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: House back tomorrow, New energy bill introduced, Unions still whipping Senate bill...Ethics...Adriane Johnson...Adlai Stevenson III

THE ILLINOIZE: BREAKING: Speaker gives unions a path forward on the energy bill...In 2021, there should be no such thing as a partisan remap...Murphy, Zahorik, Reick, Dan Brady

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Maps & Energy, what happens next?...Ethics bill shot down...Rosenthal to challenge McClure?

THE ILLINOIZE: Special session day...Maps are done...maybe?...Energy isn't...Sullivan announcing next week...Johnson will run after all...

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: New map details

BREAKING: New (new) maps released

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Digging in on Pritzker's mask mandate...Teachers on board...Business on board...Republicans, not so much...Are the redistricting hearings a sham? (Yes.)

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker warns of COVID mitigations...Budzinski in for Congress...Bipartisanship brews in Rockford

THE ILLINOIZE: ICU crisis in southern Illinois...Remap lawsuit continues...Energy bill update...Another Deputy Governor steps down

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker on property taxes...IDFPR won't investigate anti-mask mandate doctor...36 schools defying mask mandate and facing penalties...GOP Day at State Fair

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Demmer for Governor?...Mary K. O'Brien in for Supreme Court...Another school slapped for defying mask mandate...Pritzker downplays potential statewide mask mandate

THE ILLINOIZE: Downstate venture capitalist considering run for gov...Illinois GOP leader lives in Indiana...Environmentalists on energy bill: "...next two weeks are going to be critical"...Bill Haine

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Downstate venture capitalist weighing run for Governor

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Pediatrician on kids and COVID...Frerichs/Giannoulias kerfuffle...Suburban school reverses course and won't defy mask mandate...ICC investigating ComEd

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: State Fair vendors concerned...COVID-19 vaccination requirement impacts National Guard...Stopping straw purchases

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Yes, businesses can require employees to vax...Dillard on Governor's race rumors...Anti-vaxxers are making me crazy

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: BREAKING: New COVID mandates to come...Mandatory masks in schools..."Skinny" energy bill proposed...Roses for Kinzinger...The worst Governor ever

THE ILLINOIZE...Pritzker/Union energy feud...Another COVID crisis brewing...Gov signs FOID bill...More on Secretary of State job description questions...Edgar Fellows

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Unemployment follies...Exelon's big bet...McConchie on Gov race...Extreme sides in southern Illinois judicial race...Swanson gets a primary...Canty running for House

THE ILLINOIZE: Suburban Republicans seem more exasperated than angry...McConchie on Pritzker's "hypocrisy"...Understanding the new mask guidance...Welch does DC

THE ILLINOIZE: Kinzinger on, Davis off January 6 commission...Two more Illinoisans indicted...Does Giannoulias know what he's running for?...Rabine misinformation...SGOP/McCombie

THE ILLINOIZE: Things people don't ask the Governor...Dems want redistricting suit dismissed...GOP trying to stop Senate primary

THE ILLINOIZE: The Governor's long list of free stuff he wants to provide in a second term...What Pritzker said (and didn't say)...Pay the Guard...Dave O'Neal

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker is running...Will a serious Republican challenge him?...More on fundraising...Demmer/Brady SoS update

THE ILLINOIZE: Carol Pope speaks...Bailey leading GOP gov candidates in cash...Giannoulias far ahead in SoS cash dash

UPDATE: Exelon response to this morning's story

THE ILLINOIZE: Energy bill negotiations at a stalemate...Rock Island Mayor interested in Senate...Corruption on the Cook County Board of Review

THE ILLINOIZE: Syverson gets a primary...More on that Brady poll...State GOP wants to censor dissenters...COVID cases on the rise

THE ILLINOIZE: McCombie on the move?...Business and labor oppose energy bill...Another Illinois pol indicted

THE ILLINOIZE: More confusion over Supreme Court seats...The Quinn/Rauner effect...Governor signs NIL bill into law...Fitch reactions

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker says state not looking at funding new Bears stadium...Who will run for Supreme Court next year?...85 COVID cases at downstate summer camp

THE ILLINOIZE: What Dems aren't saying about their budget...More on elected Chicago School Board...Support for Bears move to Arlington Heights...Crowe finalist for U.S. Attorney...Photobombing cat

THE ILLINOIZE: There's no place for this crazy in the Illinois GOP

THE ILLINOIZE: Time for Illinois colleges to pay athletes?...Shimkus joins lobbying firm...Showdown in Central Illinois?...Bills and bills and bills and bills

THE ILLINOIZE: Where the GOP field for Governor stands now...Dan Hynes...Bears bid for Arlington Park

THE ILLINOIZE: June session special edition...Where do we go from here on the energy bill?...Do FOID changes make anyone safer?...Welch on Lightfoot

THE ILLINOIZE: No energy deal...Unions vs. Environmentalists...Budget fix...How the GOP thinks it can win redistricting suit

BREAKING: Senate heads home without energy deal

THE ILLINOIZE: Will there be an energy bill?...The $8 billion unemployment gorilla...FOID bill to get a vote...Rep. Dan Brady isn't running for Secretary of State (at least, not yet)

THE ILLINOIZE: Illinois is back in business...Unions blocking energy bill?...Rockford casino moving forward

THE ILLINOIZE: What's in the energy bill?...FOID bill update...

SUBSCRIBER UPDATE: Legislature returns next week

THE ILLINOIZE: Energy bill vote next week?...Valencia in for Secretary of State...Who will challenge Duckworth?...About full reopening this week

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker signs Democrat-drawn redistricting plan

THE ILLINOIZE: "Pork Barrel" spending...The strange politics of the CPS school board...Kinzinger's plans...Pritzker interviews...Cabello

THE ILLINOIZE: Inside the Harmon budget brick...In depth on ethics bill...Pritzker emerges

THE ILLINOIZE: Marathon day, night, and early morning in Springfield...HARMON BLOCKING BUDGET...ethics, elections all pass...FOID, energy, Chicago school board stuck as lawmakers depart Springfield

BREAKING: Energy deal reached

THE ILLINOIZE: Update on where things stand right now

THE ILLINOIZE: End of session special edition (Part 3)...BUDGET BILL DROPS OVERNIGHT

THE ILLIOIZE: End of session special edition (Part 2)...Ethics today?...FOID restrictions pass...Felon voting bill surfaces...GOP tries to turn up heat on Pritzker...Mazzochi...Ammons

THE ILLINOIZE: End of session special edition...What both parties got wrong about the remap...2022 Primary...Mapes

THE ILLINOIZE: New maps, again...Eastern Bloc primary potentially avoided...Mazzochi still gets hosed...Still six House GOP primaries...Cullerton/Glowiak Hilton update...Mapes...Dillard for Governor?

BREAKING NEWS: Former Madigan Chief of Staff Tim Mapes Indicted

THE ILLINOIZE: First hearing on new maps...What does the Supreme Court map mean for sitting justices?...Candidates in open districts begin to emerge

THE ILLINOIZE: How Democrats hope redistricting will demoralize Republicans...Who is impacted most (with visuals!)...Looking at the Prisoner Review Board...6 days to adjournment

THE ILLINOIZE: Another redistricting special edition...Nearly half of House GOP's drawn into member vs. member primaries...Conroy vs. Mazzochi?...2 Senate, 13 House districts drawn without incumbent

THE ILLINOIZE: Redistricting special edition, Transparency be darned, Artistic renderings, who's in, who's out, who knows?

BREAKING: Democrats release draft legislative maps

THE ILLINOIZE: Map update...Filling the budget hole...Sex education debate gets hot & heavy...

THE ILLINOIZE: Redrawing Supreme Court lines...Mandating media literacy in schools...Criminalization of HIV...Remembering Corinne Wood

THE ILLINOIZE: Where are we?...Illinois mask mandate ends...GOP frustrated with stalled ethics reform...Rep. Mike Halpin's future

THE ILLINOIZE: Happy "Bridge Phase" day...CDC recommendation and the mask mandate...$1.3 budget hole to fill...LaSalle actions (or inaction) under fire...Dems stumble on remap questions

THE ILLINOIZE: Democrat strife over competing maps...LaSalle hearings begin...Beer with your shot?

THE ILLINOIZE: Who gets reshuffled in the remap?...LaSalle fallout and legislation...Mary Miller's uninspiring start

THE ILLINOIZE: Real talk for Illinois Republicans...State budget "nowhere near ready"...Pritzker moving state to "bridge" phase...What about the mask mandate?...McConchie v. Urlacher?

THE ILLINOIZE: Our exclusive sit-down with House GOP Leader Durkin...Rezin on failures at LaSalle Vets' Home...Our promise to you: blood, toil, tears, and sweat

THE ILLINOIZE: Hearings planned on LaSalle Veterans' Home...Dem frustrated with Pritzker response...Upward mobility for House Republicans?...FOID fiasco...

THE ILLINOIZE: Too much news today not to update (LaSalle, Bustos)

THE ILLINOIZE: Ethics reform (finally) moving...Bill to gamble on Illinois college games "doable"...State can't afford Bears stadium in burbs...LaSalle Vets' Home inquiry...(Not that) Daley indicted

THE ILLINOIZE: Illinois will lose a congressional district...who goes?...Inside the outmigration pattern...Pritzker punts on redistricting...Vaccine supply will exceed demand...Landlords want relief

THE ILLINOIZE: The legislative scramble is on and what it means...Mayors want their money...Redistricting from a non-partisan point of view...Sims assailant pleads "not guilty"

THE ILLINOIZE: Vaccine supply and demand downstate...Redistricting sucks all the air out of Springfield...National Guard to Chicago...LaShawn Ford and cops

THE ILLINOIZE: Police shooting reaction...Kinzinger: "The GOP, frankly, is broken"...Brady for Secretary of State?...House GOP grumbles their bills aren't moving...Fundraising numbers...

THE ILLINOIZE: The Latino district conundrum...Dems slam GOP on redistricting racial claims...Mendoza whacks former legislators who want more cash...Davis clarifies on Gov race...

THE ILLINOIZE: Court ruling could net former legislators big bucks...Let's talk about redistricting laws...Kelly says Dems should run on Biden rescue plan...16+ eligible for vaccine starting Monday

THE ILLINOIZE: Davis "serious" about run for Governor...Latest twist in Pritzker/Lightfoot saga...Bar owner denies responsibility for COVID outbreak...COVID-19 case numbers climb

THE ILLINOIZE: Our talk with Gary Rabine...Any hope for one of the poorest places in Illinois?...School board elections get nasty...No "bridge" phase yet as numbers rise...Duckworth wanted to be Veep

THE ILLINOIZE: If it's a good idea and you can't afford it, is it still a good idea?...Has casino approval delay doomed Rockford?...Rabine in...State trooper killed

THE ILLINOIZE: The patchwork of rules to get a COVID vaccine...The Loretto disaster...Shortcomings in criminal justice reform law?....Gov's money splash...Pass ethics reform now!

THE ILLINOIZE: Happy Tournament Day...House condemns Miller...Pritzker's re-opening plans...Man pulls gun on State Senator...Redistricting won't be pretty...Tax Day moved back...Baby Demmer

THE ILLINOIZE: New re-opening phase this week...Ezike testifies...Vaccinating teachers and nursing homes...One year since the pandemic threw the primary election into chaos

THE ILLINOIZE: One year since first COVID Executive Order...Is Biden May 1 goal attainable?...Sen. Duckworth's pottymouth shot at Carlson (she's right, btw)...Some county GOP insist on maskless events

THE ILLINOIZE: Mixed messages on United Center vaccines...State says kids should be learning in person...GOP gubernatorial candidates will have to tiptoe Trump...Get me an Old Style

THE ILLINOIZE: My run-in with Gov. Pritzker...Mask mandate...White Republicans don't want vax...Labor, Dems want larger crowds for conventions and tourism...IDES offices not opening anytime soon...

THE ILLINOIZE: Drama for Dem chair...Parents want kids back in school...GOP wants outside investigation into LaSalle Vets Home...Welcome to the virtual General Assembly...More hot water for Miller?

THE ILLINOIZE: The Madigan nightmare...GOP committeeman Porter for Gov?...Rep. Chris Miller anti-government milita symbol...The job Kinzinger's challenger doesn't want to talk about...Welch nuggets

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey announces...GOP insiders say "he ensures Pritzker gets another four years"...Pritzker signs controversial police reform bill...Madigan resigns as DPI Chair...who replaces him?

THE ILLINOIZE: Madigan's exit...Hotels and Restaurants beg for help...GOP wants reopening details...The 2022 campaign started this week...

THE ILLINOIZE: Post budget speech special edition...Ending "corporate loopholes" or "raising taxes on small business?"...How Pritzker plans to close the budget gap...

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey announces for Governor next week...Rabine "next few weeks"...GOP shooting Pritzker budget before it's proposed...Some bipartisan hope in Senate newcomers...More vaccine delays...

THE ILLINOIZE: Walgreens and CVS defend vaccination pace...GOP Senators grumpy with Ezike...Milhiser resigns, Lausch next?...Spain to HRO...Happy 212th, Mr. Lincoln!

THE ILLINOIZE: The inside story on vaccine distribution...Hearing scheduled on vaccine delays...Who is Gary Rabine?...Super Bowl bets...Two new African American senators and their political future...

THE ILLINOIZE: Big decision for Illinois GOP...The fire & brimstone response to criminal reform...Vaccine rollout...Ricketts likely out for Gov...Leone & Long...Happy Birthday, Mr. Speaker

THE ILLINOIZE: Groundhog Day for some unemployment benefit applicants...Beware of woke teachers (or something)...How Democrats can fix redistricting...Thapedi resigning

THE ILLINOIZE: Vaccinations at nursing homes picking up, politicians still squabbling...Could a census data delay benefit Republicans?...State losing population, but burbs grow...More Guard troops to DC

THE ILLINOIZE: Rage over vaccination delays at long term care facilities...Restaurants open but can they survive?...Brady replacement sworn in...Manar/Steans/Cassidy...Will high school hoops be safe?

THE ILLINOIZE: Why do prison inmates get the vaccine first?...How an Illinois congressman is dividing his party...Brady, Manar replacements...More indoor dining opening up

THE ILLINOIZE: State Capitol remains on lockdown...Reopening bars and restaurants begins...Some suburban mayors not enforcing ban...What's next for Madigan...Scherer won't seek Senate seat...

THE ILLINOIZE: What the legislature did in the dead of night...Michael Madigan's complicated legacy...Speaker Welch's problem with women...Restaurants to reopen soon?

THE ILLINOIZE (New Speaker Special Edition): Welch promises "this is a new day"...Durkin isn't sold...Some great photos from Lame Duck session

BREAKING: The Madigan era is over...Chris Welch to be sworn in as 70th Illinois Speaker of the House

THE ILLINOIZE: Welch in race for Speaker, Hoffman "thinking about it"...Madigan "suspends" effort...Wednesday chaos likely?...Chapa LaVia resigns over LaSalle...

THE ILLINOIZE (Lame Duck Edition): House Dems in disarray...Criminal justice bill moving as early as today...IDOR on Pritzker tax plan...Rep. Bailey update...

THE ILLINOIZE: The siege of Springfield...Gov's race far from shaping up...Inside the police reform bill...what to expect from lame duck...Mary Miller fallout...

BREAKING: Rep. Ann Williams running for Speaker

THE ILLINOIZE: Rep. Willis for Speaker?...Dems deny GOP warning of tax hike...Manar's big payday...Open seat posturing...Vallas wants to open the schools...36th veteran dead at LaSalle