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THE ILLINOIZE: Fireworks in court as SAFE-T Act constitutionality argued...Ruling coming by end of year...Data shows Republican candidates who lost were bad candidates

THE ILLINOIZE: Friends and colleagues remember Sen. Scott Bennett...Who was the most important person in Illinois politics in 2022?

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...SAFE-T Act heads to court...What's next for Adam Kinzinger?...Some say assault weapons ban doesn't go far enough

THE ILLINOIZE: Clearly, some Republicans don't care to win statewide ever again

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Just how liberal is our blue state?...Polling shows we may see Mayor Chuy...Bears ask for stadium bailout

The Illinoize Podcast- December 14, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: Gen Z comes to Springfield

THE ILLINOIZE: Gun ban supporters tell their story...Satan makes his holiday appearance in Springfield...Another Acevedo pleads guilty

THE ILLINOIZE: Friends remember Sen. Scott Bennett as humble, charismatic, self-deprecating, "a big heart"...

Bipartisan tributes to Sen. Scott Bennett

Sen. Scott Bennett dies at 45

THE ILLINOIZE: Why Republicans lost...

BREAKING: Sen. Scott Bennett in hospitalized following apparent stroke

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker signs SAFE-T Act fix...Gov opens door to cannabis delivery...Financial doomsday for RTA?...Remembering Gary LaPaille

The Illinoize Podcast- December 7, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: The Republican brain drain...Who would replace Bennett in the House?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Rep. Tom Bennett to seek Barickman seat

THE ILLINOIZE: Gun rights advocates say assault weapon ban is "absolutely unconstitutional"...Why Barickman is really leaving the Senate

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Why Dems made changes to cash bail law...The gun battle begins...Jesse White's swan song

THE ILLINOIZE: Not a banner day for our legislative process...Assault weapon ban likely to

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: SAFE-T Act update

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Final day of Veto Session (we hope)...SAFE-T Act changes moving...Appellate Court lets DCFS off the hook (for now)...Memorializing Obama (for history)

Cash bail amendment likely to sail through Senate...Questions remain in the House...Pritzker's SAFE-T Act word salad...UI Trust Fund agreed bill

THE ILLINOIZE: SAFE-T Act changes "fluid" as legislature returns to Springfield...Mazzochi likely to seek discovery recount as Appellate Court mulls decision on mail-in ballots...Hastings stripped

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...

THE ILLINOIZE: Mazzochi's last chance (maybe)...What I'm thankful for in Illinois

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...🦃Thanksgiving week🦃...Madigan is still raising money...Workers' Rights Amendment likely heading to court...University of Illinois wants more state cash

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Mazzochi count update

THE ILLINOIZE: My hopes for Pritzker II

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...New GOP Leader "welcomes" billionaire bucks...Amendment 1 passes...Reluctance to change SAFE-T Act

The Illinoize Podcast- November 16, 2022

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: The Senate Republican upheaval continues...

THE ILLINOIZE: How the GOP leadership battles were won..."A Sue Rezin coup"...More on Mazzochi's court order

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Mazzochi gets court order to stop mail-in count

THE ILLINOIZE: Where does the Illinois GOP go from here?...Worker's Rights Amendment to pass...Don't expect anything groundbreaking from veto session this week...

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Illinois GOP 'teeters on the edge of irrelevance'..."Illinois voters rejected us"..."Unacceptable" medical care for foster kids

THE ILLINOIZE: Exclusive: Butler resigning from House...McCombie says she has the votes to replace Durkin...Mazzochi falls farther behind

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: McConchie likely out...Coup d'éta among Senate Republicans

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Close race updates

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Curran challenging McConchie for SGOP Leader

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker for President?...The Democrat congressional sweep...Durkin is out as House GOP Leader

The Illinoize Podcast- November 9, 2022

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Durkin out

THE ILLINOIZE: Post-election special edition...The dust settles...Pritzker wins re-election...Epic disaster up and down the ballot for GOP

THE ILLINOIZE: Election Day!...By the end of the day, 4.5 million Illinoisans will have voted...Bailey & DeVore hold bizarre anti-vax news conference...10 things I'm watching..."What are you hearing?"

THE ILLINOIZE: One day away...Pritzker, Bailey hold last minute rallies...POTUS and Veep hit Illinois in the final weekend...Dems send fake MAGA mail in Supreme Court race

THE ILLINOIZE: The final weekend

THE ILLINOIZE: Former Bailey staffer may sue, and how Dan Proft stuck his nose in it...Five most vulnerable incumbents

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free For All...⏲️Five days left⏲️...Man arrested for threatening Bailey...Early vote spike...SAFE-T Act lawsuits consolidated

The Illinoize Podcast- November 2, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: A budding Kaepernick situation in a suburban House district...The GOP final pitch to donors is counting on Trump voters, independents...Hastings situation goes from worse to even worse

THE ILLINOIZE: One week out...On the trail with Gov. Pritzker...Gabbard stumps for Bailey...

👻THE ILLINOIZE:👻 Monday Free for All...Spooky election season edition

THE ILLINOIZE: Hastings situation goes from bad to worse...Will Senate Dems call on him to resign?...Duckworth and Salvi unimpressive in debate

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Poll shows governor's race at 9...What's actually in the SAFE-T Act?...Worker's Rights Amendment

The Illinoize Podcast- October 26, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: Is the environment improving for Republicans?...Raoul/DeVore square off

THE ILLINOIZE: Supreme Court cash...House Republican gives money to Senate Dems...Brady says Giannoulias' Bright Start losses "disqualifying"

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: New TV ads

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Bailey's uphill climb...Details on the latest Madigan charges...Advantages for congressional incumbents

THE ILLINOIZE: 5 Senate Races to Watch

The Illinoize Podcast- October 19, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Uihlein cash...Rodney Davis, unplugged...Budzinski's lucrative consulting gig

THE ILLINOIZE: What did we learn in the second debate? Absolutely nothing.

THE ILLINOIZE: Debate day, part two...Pritzker outspent Bailey 23:1 in Q3...Supreme Court spending about to explode?...A mountain lion in Illinois

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Pritzker made $18.5 million last year...The New Jersey model for cash bail?...Uihlein's support for election deniers...

THE ILLINOIZE: The Schuyler County debacle...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker wants $1 billion for business incentives...State Museum investing in Native American history...Politicians don't go to Belmont Cragin

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey finally up on TV...Suburban Dems go all in on abortion, not so much for downstate Dems

THE ILLINOIZE: What is Uihlein doing?...Pritzker takes credit for tax cut he repealed...Turner/Hamilton race gets ugly...

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Pritzker and Bailey...Takeaways from the debate...Suburban congressional races...

THE ILLINOIZE: Interruptions, insults, irritability mar first debate between Pritzker and Bailey...Who won?...Will it change the race?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Debate day...More lawsuits against SAFE-T Act...Kitty litter chronicles

The Illinoize Podcast- October 5, 2022

Here's the Citizens for Judicial Fairness Ad we talked about this morning

THE ILLINOIZE: Supreme Court air war heats up...new TV ads

THE ILLINOIZE: Burke calls O'Brien ad "unethical"...Republicans strapped for cash in crunch time...U.S. Senate candidates debate

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: New TV Ads

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Bailey and Pritzker trade barbs...Congressional races...More SAFE-T Act opinions

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...O'Brien ad...Poll shows Pritzker up 15...Highland Park victims sue gunmaker

The Illinoize Podcast- September 28, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: Mary K. O'Brien ad makes baseless claim about Supreme Court justice opponent...First bill changing cash bail law filed

THE ILLINOIZE: Divide in the House GOP may save Durkin...How far have HGOP prospects fallen?...Ten House races to watch...Why I call the Proft pieces "fake newspapers"

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: New TV Ads

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...What is Amendment 1?...Lawmakers denied back pay..."Corruption Contagion" in Illinois

THE ILLINOIZE: Daily Herald embarrassment...Proft's classless temper tantrum response...Can Republicans beat Hastings?

The Illinoize Podcast- September 21, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker deflects on corruption...More focus on crime...Edgar interview

Livestream with Gov. Edgar delayed until 1pm

THE ILLINOIZE: Edgar: GOP needs more moderates to win...Emil Jones indicted, but top Dems aren't publicly calling for resignation

THE ILLINOIZE: How Republicans could get on board with ending cash bail...How helping Bailey hurts Bailey...IEA goes for Brady

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Current TV ads

THE ILLINOIZE...Monday Free for All...The end of cash bail...How to deal with crime...Issues mount for Hastings

THE ILLINOIZE: Negotiations underway to amend SAFE-T Act...Amendment 1 debated

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Bailey's tax returns...More on Chicago crime...Pritzker's migrant emergency

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Bailey's tax returns

The Illinoize Podcast- September 14, 2022

Resending: THE ILLINOIZE: Chicago resident Darren Bailey...Wait, what?

THE ILLINOIZE: A progressive bucks the establishment...Pritzker deflects on crime...Anne Burke

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Fake newspapers back in the news...Arlington Heights Bears...Lots of TV ads

SUBSCRIBER UPDATE: Uihlein goes in big for Senate GOP

THE ILLINOIZE: Your questions...answered!

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Choate...crime...new casinos...

The Illinoize Livestream/Podcast- September 7, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey's trouble with numbers...Pritzker's Chicago ad buys

THE ILLINOIZE: The post-Labor Day final stretch begins...catching up after the holiday

THE ILLINOIZE: Concerns about retiree health care change...Bailey's UI claims...Duckworth ducking debates?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...our 2nd anniversary!

The Illinoize Podcast- August 31, 2022

A couple of notes on our poll...

THE ILLINOIZE: Bad moon rising for Illinois GOP

THE ILLINOIZE EXCLUSIVE: Pritzker, Duckworth, Democrats dominate new poll...Uihlein back in the game for Bailey...

BREAKING: Uihlein back in the game

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: More details on our poll...

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Pritzker, Democrats dominate new poll

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All..."Hellhole"...Chicago crime...Sex ed standards...Agriculture forum fibs

The Illinoize Podcast- August 17, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: Free Subscriber Edition...Bailey can't help himself...Legislative Dems looking to hit GOP with "class warfare"...There will be debates (we think.)...What poll is Salvi talking about?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Highland Park...Assault Rifles...Governor's Day...ComEd...Criminal Justice Reform

THE ILLINOIZE: What's actually in that criminal justice law?...Tracy likely headed to new term leading GOP

THE ILLINOIZE: More social media problems for Team Bailey...Casino revenue skyrockets, but still lower than normal...Kinzinger: GOP is like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"...Yang Rohr opponent

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Road projects...LaHood on inflation legislation...COVID risks...Chuy for Mayor (again?)

Are Democrats as strong in the suburbs as they think they are?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...More drip drip drip for Bailey...FOP Endorsement...Prison health care...and the Butter Cow

The Illinoize Podcast- August 10, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: This is the Darren Bailey Republicans worried about...Hastings domestic abuse allegations...Griffin's sour grapes

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey 'election integrity' staffer who attended Jan. 6 rally "not denying" 2020 result....Is Sims being targeted?...Kinzinger "done" with elected office...House Dems start spending

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Illinois' complicated red flag laws...The end of Shakman...Sex Ed standards...Abortion funding

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey tries to change the narrative...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker on abortion, Bailey on the Holocaust, You know where this is going...

The Illinoize Podcast- August 3, 2022

THE ILLINOIZE: In defense of Darren Bailey (kind of)...

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey at risk of losing biggest backer...Proft poll wants to move Bailey right...State senate petitions...Lisa Hernandez and her redistricting committee peeves some Black activists

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Pritzker's takeover of the state Dems...100 days to go...20,000 revoked FOID cards in Cook County

The Illinoize Podcast- July 27, 2022

BREAKING: Robin Kelly pulls out of Dem chair race

THE ILLINOIZE: Previewing Dems Chair vote...Weaver takes over Peoria County GOP

FOR SUBSCRIBERS: Rough night for Team Bailey

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Racism in Dem Chair battle?...Google buying JRTC...Pot sales...Will PQ make the will of the people the law of Chicago?

Join us at noon for a Livestream on assault weapons, abortion, and the race for Governor...

THE ILLINOIZE: GOP State Central Committee voting tonight...Halbrook trying to hijack vote?...Lake County Chair Shaw out

THE ILLINOIZE: Inside party leadership battles...Bailey and Eastern Bloc splitting over Kinzinger "censure"...Candidate slating deadline...Fixing Irvin

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Empty offices across the state...New pot licenses...Pritzker's cash and approval ratings

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Assault weapon ban gaming steam?...Kinzinger takes center stage...Campaign cash

THE ILLINOIZE: The far left takeover is upon us

THE ILLINOIZE...Bailey's cash crunch...State Police want more authority to revoke or deny FOID cards...Irvin got fleeced

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Pritzker does Florida...Rolling back COVID restrictions...Jesse White (not THAT Jesse White) is running for Secretary of State

THE ILLINOIZE: "Senseless" and "petty" eviction for wheelchair-using lawmaker...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker to Florida...Abortion special session...Corruption, corruption everywhere

THE ILLINOIZE: Who is coming for Durkin?...New Justice Holder-White on Supreme Court: "What an opportunity" to serve

THE ILLINOIZE: GOP to Bailey: "less Joel Osteen and more CEO"

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...More on Highland Park...Holder White officially to Supreme Court...Crowe replacement

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Highland Park shooter...Why did he have a FOID?...Bailey inserts foot in mouth...Abortion special session delay

Subscriber update

THE ILLINOIZE...I don't know what to say anymore

THE ILLINOIZE: GOP hopes of Supreme Court takeover may be lost...What does the Illinois GOP want to be?...Pritzker begins TV attacks on Bailey

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Recapping the Primary

THE ILLINOIZE: Post-primary special edition...Bailey...Pritzker...Rodney Davis...Zalewski, Welter, Luft, Mattson out, Willis and Stoneback trail

Follow along tonight

THE ILLINOIZE: It's Primary Day...The party of Bailey...One-on-one with likely GOP nominee...Can Davis stay alive?...Dem legislators who need blood pressure meds today...Impact of Griffin departure

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...On the day before...Trump endorses Bailey...Roe reaction...Election roundup

NEW POLLING:

Friday update: Pritzker calling Special Session in response to Roe v. Wade decision

THE ILLINOIZE: Rodney Davis falls out with some supporters...Previewing Dem congressional primaries

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Hosting WMAY Morning Show today from 6a-9a...Dems infighting for SoS...Voter turnout...Congressional races

THE ILLINOIZE: Is the Irvin campaign coasting to defeat?...Suburban congressional candidates spar over mayoral salaries, pensions...Cullerton and the corruption message

THE ILLINOIZE: Exclusive poll for The Illinoize: Davis leads Miller by a thread, but Trump may change everything...Republicans want to unseat Democrat in suburban district...

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Shock Mary Miller/Rodney Davis poll...

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...The rightward move of the Illinois GOP...Trump...Pritzker to New Hampshire

THE ILLINOIZE: Brady and Milhiser face off...IDES criticized in new audit...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All... Illinois GOP voters still aren't over Trump...The "other" candidates for Governor...What losing Caterpillar means

THE ILLINOIZE: Five open seat primaries I'm watching on June 28

THE ILLINOIZE: Could Bailey beat Pritzker?...13th District Republicans...New polling in Senate, AG, SoS primaries...Casten's daughter dies at 17

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Statewide GOP polling...Legislative races...Remembering Jim Ryan...More on Madigan indictment

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE: Trump to stump for Mary Miller in Quincy the weekend before primary

SUBSCRIBER UPDATE: New poll shows Bailey up 15.

THE ILLINOIZE: Chaos for the Griffin slate...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All....Irvin pulls downstate TV...A testy Senate primary in Joliet...Congressional primary battles may give us big races in the fall

SUBSCRIBER UPDATE: Irvin team pulling TV ads downstate

THE ILLINOIZE: *Kathy Salvi has entered the chat*....Tough mail hits the northwest side in two Dem primaries

THE ILLINOIZE...Is Darren Bailey leading the GOP primary?...Abortion...Lightfoot breaks from police reform law...John Porter

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...DCFS...Casten/Newman primary...Bailey's #ell#ole dilemma

THE ILLINOIZE: GOP candidates attack, but don't lay gloves on Irvin in first debate between all six candidates...Irvin and Bailey blow off postgame news conference...Who won?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Irvin's shady business partnership?...GOP debate tonight...Newman's dumpy dog...

THE ILLINOIZE: Gubernatorial smorgasbord...It's Durbin vs. Pritzker II for control of the state party

THE ILLINOIZE: Four weeks to go...Top 5 incumbents in danger of losing on June 28...Milhiser

THE ILLINOIZE: Memorial Day Monday Free for All...

THE ILLINOIZE: Did the GOP debates change any minds?...Irvin Poll...Debate dodging in Secretary of State primaries?

FOR SUBSCRIBERS: Pritzker ad alleging Irvin helped Griffin earn over $6 billion

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Deep dives on Irvin...Questionnaires...Legislative primaries...Texas...COVID...Batinick

THE ILLINOIZE: Two debates, twice the fun?

THE ILLINOIZE: What do we know about the Madigan wiretaps?...Irvin still lying in mailers...Pat Quinn testing comeback?

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Congressional confusion...Census...Greg Harris...Ken Griffin...Criminal justice reform

THE ILLINOIZE: Richard Irvin and his campaign have officially become petty and unprofessional

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Did Irvin get charges against girlfriend reduced?...GOP candidates for Gov square off again...Congressional race log jams...Illinois' abortion haven

THE ILLINOIZE: Inside the Tribune GOP debate...Anna Valencia's silly lie

THE ILLINOIZE: Where have the moderate downstate Democrats gone?...Bailey on Chicago TV...Irvin speaks (sort of)

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Bailey (finally) up on Chicago TV...Speaker Welch brings in big bucks for wife's campaign...Energy shortages coming?

DGA Gives Bailey the "Full Akin"

THE ILLINOIZE: Noverini speaks (and it's a doozy)...Brutal DCFS audit

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...GOP poll...Biden hits a Kankakee County farm...COVID hospitalizations

THE ILLINOIZE: Judge's tricky partisan history...First Black woman to be appointed to Supreme Court...Tim Johnson

THE ILLINOIZE: Richard Irvin's no good, very bad day...Garman to retire from Supreme Court...Dan Brady...DCFS Director Speaks

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...LaSalle...Bond rating...Latino influence grows...Will County Dem dissention

THE ILLINOIZE: Rabine meets privately with Trump...Another GOP poll shows tight race...$25 million more from Griffin to Irvin...More on Auditor General report on LaSalle Veterans' Home deaths

BREAKING: Auditor General slams Pritzker administration over 36 LaSalle Veterans' Home deaths...Pritzker blames Republicans

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All... Irvin, tax revenue up, abortion, Buttigieg, DNC to Chicago?

New GOP Poll: Irvin 33, Bailey 21

Subscriber follow up: Irvin ads

THE ILLINOIZE: Irvin's misleading ads...again...Peoria GOP war expands to the hinterlands

THE ILLINOIZE: Exclusive: Report admonishes Pritzker administration for failures at LaSalle Veterans' Home...What overturning Roe would mean in Illinois...Federal survey responses

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Pugnacious in Peoria, the long running feud bleeding into a House primary...GOP gubernatorial debate debate

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey wants more access to guns in high crime areas...What the GOP candidates actually stand for...Open House races and weak hauls

THE ILLINOIZE: Fire builds in GOP intraparty attacks...Should DCFS Director Resign?...Masks

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Saturday Update

BREAKING: Sen. Rachelle Crowe to be nominated for U.S. Attorney

THE ILLINOIZE: Winnebago GOP Chair, Senate candidate faces Order of Protection...Munoz, Landek drop out...Open seat fundraising...Petition challenges

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Legislator campaign finance...Why can't Republicans raise money?...Pritzker signs budget

THE ILLINOIZE: Democratic dominance in fundraising race...Trouble for Dems on the northwest side?...Proft is back

For Subscribers: Campaign Finance

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

BREAKING: Trump hosting fundraiser for Mary Miller at Mar-a-Lago

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: State GOP asking candidates to sign "unity pledge"...polling shows Sullivan benefitting from Irvin/Bailey attacks

THE ILLINOIZE: Hoffman & McConchie on end of session...Was retail crime bill "watered down?"...State Rifle Association may sue over "ghost guns" bill

SUBSCRIBER PREVIEW: One on one with Hoffman, McConchie

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Saturday special...Legislature done...Budget approved...Some crime issues addressed...No unemployment fund fix...Report: Rep. Thaddeus Jones under investigation

SUBSCRIBER UPDATE: Budget wrangling

THE ILLINOIZE: Happy Adjournment Day...Who benefits from budget deal?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: House Dems drop budget $2.5 billion above revenue estimate...Personalities clash among top Dems...The implosion of a campaign in just a few hours

THE ILLINOIZE: Tick tock...Dems being pulled in multiple directions...Moderate Dems want pro-police legislation...Pritzker to sign teacher vax bill today...Irvin mailer goof

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

SATURDAY SPECIAL UPDATE: Senate Dems propose election year tax breaks...Crime update...Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund

THE ILLINOIZE: Business tax increase coming whether labor and business strike unemployment deal or not

DGA ad against Richard Irvin

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: The Governor was out of line to compare the Senate GOP to QAnon...

THE ILLINOIZE: All budget ideas "touch and go" with two weeks left...

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

CORRECTION: House in at 10:30

THE ILLINOIZE: Rabine behind Sullivan petition challenge...Who wins the message battle on unemployment?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker's Prisoner Review Board nominee embarrassment...Irvin flip-flop on criminal justice reform

THE ILLINOIZE: Griffin's gatekeeper threatens and intimidates...Pritzker warns of COVID comeback...Petition challenges...Melissa Hahn

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: How to handle gas taxes...More House primaries...Terry Cosgrove

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: What brought Reboletti back in the game?...Looking at some House primaries

THE ILLINOIZE: Reviewing petition filings...State spending $700k on NASCAR race...New lawsuit over LaSalle Veterans Home

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

Saturday Update: Chicago man charged with threatening Rep. Deb Conroy

THE ILLINOIZE: Tribune reporter and author Ray Long on Madigan

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Why Senate Democrats are playing games with the Prisoner Review Board

THE ILLINOIZE: Candidate filing roundup...Teresi accuses Mendoza of "hiding" fiscal problems...Expect elected officials to act like grown ups

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Freefall for Dems?...Ness tries to rewrite history...Madigan in 1970

Madigan Statement

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

UPDATE: Madigan indictment story and reaction

BREAKING: Madigan indicted

THE ILLINOIZE: Batinick considered Senate run...Kathy Salvi passing petitions...Two Democrat House members having "big petition problems"...Durkin and McConchie date night...Ezike moves on

THE ILLINOIZE: Bailey with big lead in GOP primary, Irvin begins attacks...Expert: General Assembly will have to clarify Governor's emergency powers...Mask rules will vary in the Statehouse

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: State revenue coming back to earth...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Springfield feels more like Washington than ever...McClure to get a primary after all

THE ILLINOIZE: DeVore running for Attorney General...Has the Irvin campaign taken over the Illinois GOP?

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker appeal of mask repeal dismissed as 'moot'...McCuskey: "I'm tired of being retired."

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: More school mask confusion...Bailey gets $1 million from Uihlein

THE ILLINOIZE: Let the summer of the billionaires begin...Read the room, guys...Why Pritzker won't let the school mask mandate go anytime soon

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Trump staffers jumping into legislative races...McCombie supporting Stoller challenger...Hirschauer gets challenge

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Speculating on why the mask mandate will be rolled back...Did Pritzker violate attorney ethics rules?...Sen. Bennett gets GOP challenge

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker attacks judge...Will the mask TRO stick?...Welch's wife breaks caps for judicial race...Schimpf on TV...Hamilton for Senate

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

Saturday Update: Judge Issues a Hold on School Mask Rule

THE ILLINOIZE: Irvin's Pro-Life interview controversy...Replacing Batinick...Tom Cullerton

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: No legislature, no problem...Governor to present budget to empty room in a blizzard...Mazzochi may not run again

THE ILLINOIZE: Snowmageddon cancels session...Governor's budget address to go on?...Cassandra Tanner Miller's moving introduction...Candidates lining up

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: What's up with Rep. Keith Wheeler?...Cabello gets a race...47th Ward candidate jumps in for Harris seat

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Congressional roundup...The congressional candidate on TV I had never heard of...New candidates in 11, 13, and 14...

Here's the script for the Irvin ad...

THE ILLINOIZE: Irvin goes up on TV today...Gryder jumps into 14th congressional..."Sick Leave Initiative" for teachers introduced

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Unions come to the rescue for House Dems

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Sullivan's running mate search...House Majority Leader tryouts...Fundraising numbers

THE ILLINOIZE: Irvin and Bourne in...Republicans react...Dems criticize...Can a guy who votes as a Dem win a GOP primary?...Durkin...Wayne Rosenthal...Thurgood Brooks...

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

CONFIRMED: Irvin enters Governors Race Monday, Chooses Bourne as Running Mate

BREAKING: GOP Sen. Stewart to Retire, Chesney to Seek Senate, Cabello to Seek Return to House

THE ILLINOIZE: Swanson's Cancer Battle...Why so much Secrecy Behind the Griffin Slate?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: Chris Miller unloads on Rodney Davis...More on Carolyn Schofield

THE ILLINOIZE: GOP Candidates Rolling out LG Choices...Schimpf and Rabine Have Picked...Davis Recruiting Primaries Against Miller Supporters...LIG Back and Forth Continues

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All

THE ILLINOIZE: GOP Likely to Avoid Western Illinois Primary Mess...Pritzker Calls for Enhanced Penalties on Crimes Against Social Workers

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All

SUBSCRIBER UPDATE: GOP Walkout?

THE ILLINOIZE: Why is a former U.S. Attorney running for Secretary of State?...What the court ruling on redistricting means for the future (in my opinion)

THE ILLINOIZE: We're back, baby!...Rush to retire...Dems introduce judicial subcircuits in new counties...Zalewski predicts "maintenance" budget...Sandy Hamilton and the puzzler in Sangamon County...

SUBSCRIBER PREVIEW: Roundtable discussion with Rep. Mike Zalewski (D-Riverside) and Rep. Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield)

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All