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THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker on legislative reticence to his tax increases...GOP candidates sue over slating law...Shakeup in House GOP campaign arm...DNC national committee members chosen

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Democrat opposition to Pritzker tax hikes...The plan to close Logan prison...Judge slaps fake newspapers

THE ILLINOIZE PODCAST: House GOP Leader Tony McCombie joins us to talk budget, Bears, and candidate slating

UPDATE: Both Walker and Canty seeking Senate appointment Saturday

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Both Walker and Canty seeking Senate appointment Saturday

SUBSCRIBER PREVIEW: House GOP Leader Tony McCombie joins The Illinoize Podcast

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: McCombie: still time for Dems to "ramp up the crazy"...RNC Committeewoman candidates question 2020 election, split on Trump legal fees

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Mr. Johnson goes to Springfield...Sex abuse allegations in Dept. of Juvenile Justice...Is the end of cash bail working?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Pritzker administration asks agencies to prepare for $800 million in cuts

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Democrats aren't sweating the closing days of session..."It is pretty chill right now"

THE ILLINOIZE: Illinois GOP "Trump problem" on full display in national committeeman race...Pritzker discourages talk of sales tax on services for transit

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Are Democrats "stealing an election?"...More state employees defrauded PPP loans...Do the Bears stand any chance of Springfield success?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: GOP races to get House candidate on the ballot after Dems try to kill slating process...Why are Democrats trying to limit democracy?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Dems aim to protect incumbents in hasty election bill...Bears still "non-starter" for Pritzker...State insurance covering weight loss shots

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Pritzker to skip pitch meeting from Bears

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker, Johnson asked not to attend officer's funeral...Transit consolidation emerges in Springfield...Logan closure riles GOP...Dems argue Proft and Bailey collusion

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Hidden costs in Bears stadium proposal...School enrollment decreases again...Proft faces the music

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Building a stadium is the least of taxpayers' concern in Bears plan

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Legislative reaction to Bears proposal...National Guard Adjutant General retiring...Native Americans returned some Illinois land

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Bears proposal met with legislative thud

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Pritzker: "I remain skeptical" of Bears stadium proposal

FREE POST: Bears stadium plans...What we're hearing

BREAKING: Bears will ask for more than $2 billion in state bonds for new stadium

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker punches back at migrant crisis critics...Harris jumping in for Cook County Clerk

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Pritzker on CTA...Slow growth for cannabis sales...The pressure of the migrant crisis

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Pritzker takes on CTU...Your questions...answered!

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Prisoner Review Board...Solar investments...Ukraine PM joins Pritzker to call for U.S. help

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Campaign finance reports...Ozinga's clunky move toward 2026

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker begins Prisoner Review Board cleanup...O'Hare protestors...Sheehan appointed

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Pritzker's big test...Bears want Arlington tax cut...Changing "Starved Rock?"

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: What's next for BIPA?

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Brewing battle between state and utility companies...The coolest thing made in Illinois...Gillespie resigns this weekend

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Four Tops at Chamber Legislative Day

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Pritzker plays down '26 question

THE ILLINOIZE: Ozinga's sudden resignation...Gillespie leaving Senate for Pritzker cabinet...Prosecutors critical of legislation to eliminate "habitual criminal" penalties

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Eclipse...Karen Yarbrough...The fake "news"papers are back...Tipped wages

The Illinoize Podcast- April 5, 2024

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Plummer: "I hope the Governor has learned his lesson" on Prisoner Review Board

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Prisoner Review Board...Public support for ethics reform...Tipped wages for restaurant workers

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Opinion: Prisoner Review Board failures are on you, Governor

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: House Dems attorney out over media kerfuffle

THE ILLINOIZE: "Tension" between Senate Democrats and Pritzker administration over appointments...Springfield Bishop Paprocki supports Alabama IVF ruling

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Tate-Nadeau's testy appointment...Bost's doomed lawsuit...O'Neill-Burke hangs on to win

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Crisis for the Prisoner Review Board...Why is the Cook SA race taking so long to count?...Pritzker's sports betting proposal would bring the state a haul

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Maybe the IEA should sit out GOP primaries...

THE ILLINOIZE: Prisoner Review Board members resign after parolee accused of murdering child...What Republicans are lining up to run for Governor?...GOP split on IVF

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Speaker Welch and the First Amendment...Cook County State's Attorney down to the wire

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Primary winners reflect

BREAKING: Niemerg to sail to GOP nomination in 102nd District

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...The biggest election roundup...ever?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Wednesday afternoon updates

THE ILLINOIZE: Bost leads...Flowers, Toro lose...

The Illinoize Election Night Live Show begins at 7!

THE ILLINOIZE: Election Day free post...Mike Bost in the fight of his political life...5 things I'm watching today..."What are you hearing?"

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Rumors, rumblings, and ruminations

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Candidates scramble for votes the weekend ahead of the primary...Pritzker proposes demolishing, replacing Stateville and Logan prisons

The Illinoize Podcast- Primary Preview Show

Pre-election Live Stream show begins at 11!

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Darren Bailey's unlikely path to victory Tuesday...Campaign finance updates

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Rumors, rumblings, and ruminations...

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker ending health care for some illegal immigrants...Legislature takes up health insurance reform...State revenue growth "firm and steady"

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Could Flowers actually win?...Campaign finance updates

THE ILLINOIZE: Dems soften on Bears stadium plan...In the Field: 53rd Senate candidates differ on how to "get things done"...Campaign finance updates

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Elected Chicago School Board goes to Governor's desk...Trump delegates have said the darndest things...What will be on the ballot in November?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: In the Field: Three candidates for Senate who all sound alike...Campaign finance updates

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Rumors, rumblings, and ruminations

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Link avoids prison...Senate passes Chicago School Board bill...Piles of political potpourri

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Exclusive: Bost Leads Bailey by 6...Senate caves on Chicago School Board

THE ILLINOIZE: Supreme Court ruling on Trump ballot status...Race hits a downstate legislative race (again)...Your questions...answered!...Campaign finance updates

Pre-primary Q&A tomorrow! Send me your questions!

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Pritzker's abortion gauntlet...Cities pipe up on grocery tax...The Trump ballot predicament

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: In the field: Three kinds of Democrats in one primary...Campaign finance updates

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Trump team appeals

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Trump bounced...Sports organizations regroup...Dems go all-in to defeat Flowers

BREAKING: Trump removed from Illinois ballot

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: A "racist" ad in southern Illinois...Campaign finance updates

THE ILLINOIZE: Suburban Republicans prepare to navigate the "political poison" of Trump...Pritzker defends grocery tax criticism...Campaign finance updates

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...State paying migrants to leave...Pritzker's tax plans...Bost and Bailey differ on a gun issue

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Bailey goes up on TV but is it too little too late?...Reaction to Pritzker's grocery tax and retail tax proposals...Springfield figures on Chicago Mag Top 50...Campaign finance notes

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Pritzker's $900 million in tax hikes...How he's going after insurers...The White Sox pipe dream

Pritzker's Budget Address

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: What's in the budget?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY...How did Trump's endorsement of Bost happen?...Races under the radar

THE ILLINOIZE: Will this budget be Pritzker's toughest challenge?...Giannoulias calls for ethics reform...One month to primary day

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Will Trump stay on the Illinois ballot?...Previewing Pritzker's budget...The Pritzker vs. Johnson migrant funding fight intensifies

BREAKING: Nichols withdraws

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: More state money to migrant crisis...McCann pleads guilty...Niemerg's union-backed challenger speaks...Campaign finance updates

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Trump...McCann...Mapes

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Bryant goes on the attack...Chamber boss says BIPA bill a "move in the right direction"

THE ILLINOIZE: Life after Durbin...Mapes...Collins...McCann

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All: Democrats hog the pork...McCann in custody...CTU wins the Chicago School Board battle

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: The Illinoize Podcast- February 9, 2024

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: How the Illinois GOP navigates Trump this fall

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Trump Illinois ballot suit proceeds...McCann trial doesn't...Tax credit efforts

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: House GOP to pitch property tax reform through pension savings...Campaign finance notes

THE ILLINOIZE: GOP candidates struggle to raise cash...Legislators behaving badly...Darren Bailey's border stunt

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...BIPA reform...Chicago School Board...Our goofy primary system

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Is Welch throwing two incumbents to the wolves?...TV ads against Wilhour go up

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Congressional campaign finance reports...Health insurance premiums for undocumented/illegal program kicks back up

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Trump stays on Illinois ballot for now...Some lawmakers want to roll back death tax...Bears stadium saga continues

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Bost's big cash advantage...Niemerg and challenger goof write in registrations...Campaign finance notes

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker: no suburban shelters for migrants...Pat Quinn, 15 years since the "accidental governor"...Trump ballot ruling expected today...Bryant...Mapes

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Trump's status for the Illinois ballot...Another suit against assault weapon ban (that isn't going anywhere)...State contract for prison health care under fire

SUBSCRIBER PREVIEW: The Illinoize Podcast- January 26, 2024

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Gong-Gershowitz on migrant crisis: influx of migrants "not under our control"...Unions find write in candidate against Niemerg

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Chicago Mayor wants state to shelter migrants outside of the city...The big ask for education next year...Pritzker's climate goals falling short

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: More on that Bailey poll...Kash getting help?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Bailey poll claims he leads Bost 48%-44%

THE ILLINOIZE: Pritzker, Johnson tension over migrants grows...GOP pollster says Pritzker used poll to "cherry pick" stats...Caulkins taking another shot to overturn gun ban

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Cash bail reform leads to spike in detention appeals...Supreme Court saves pension reform bill...Who pays for a new Sox park?

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Primaries shape up...Pritzker doesn't immediately shut down support for new Sox stadium

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...The legislative agenda...More funding for migrant crisis...Assault weapon registry

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: IEA behind Niemerg ballot removal, searching for write-in challenge...Republicans want to kick migrants out...Campaign finance reports contain rare good news for GOP

THE ILLINOIZE: Will the Senate go along with House Chicago School Board plan?...What to expect when you're expecting a legislative session?...Why the Biden ballot challenge is "foolish"

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...Legislative session kicks off this week...Pritzker defends Biden before heading to Iowa...Dems secret tax hike

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Christie, Niemerg, Katz Muhl, McClure

THE ILLIONIZE: Thursday Free for All...State opens migrant shelter...Abortions spike in Illinois...Bears still can't make up their minds

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Who is getting knocked off the ballot?

THE ILLINOIZE: Sources: Niemerg to be removed from ballot...Does it matter Trump didn't sign loyalty oath?...More Bost/Bailey bickering over guns

THE ILLINOIZE: Monday Free for All...How many unregistered assault weapons are there?...Trump didn't sign Illinois "loyalty oath"...Christie, Haley, DeSantis join Trump on Illinois ballot

The Illinoize Podcast- January 5, 2024

SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Who are the delegates?...Why the GOP shouldn't step in the "Madigan trap" this fall

THE ILLINOIZE: Thursday Free for All...Madigan trial postponed...New DCFS director...Capitol bomb threat

THE ILLINOIZE: Back for more in 2024...Bost hits the airwaves (we have the ad first)...Assault weapon registry...Madigan