SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers will be in session next week as a showdown with Gov. Bruce Rauner over school finance continues. The Senate will meet Sunday to deal with the Republican’s veto of a school funding revamp. The House will convene Wednesday. The legislation attempts to make state public-school funding fairer. Rauner used…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner is expected to use his veto power to remove some money for Chicago Public Schools from a school funding bill – a move that could jeopardize funding for Illinois’ roughly 850 districts. Democrats on Monday sent to Rauner a school funding overhaul they passed in May but…
CHICAGO (AP) Governor Bruce Rauner has summoned lawmakers into special session to settle the public education funding issue weeks before the school bell is set to ring. The Republican ordered the House and Representatives and Senate to report to Springfield Wednesday. This was after the Senate missed a noon deadline to send to him…
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Officials are expected to tour flood-stricken neighborhoods in a county north of Chicago following heavy rainfall earlier this week. The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports that U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, both Democrats, will join Lake County Board Chair Aaron Lawlor Saturday afternoon. They also are expected to…
CHICAGO (AP) – A feud between Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and Comptroller Susana Mendoza is escalating over spending priorities during the state’s unprecedented budget standoff. Mendoza is a Democrat in charge of paying Illinois’ bills. She used a City Club of Chicago speech Monday to accuse Rauner of being a “terrible governor” and paying consultants…
Crossville, IL (KTRS) Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner plans to survey storm damage in White County on Thursday. This southern Illinois tour comes after Rauner toured the tornado damage in central Illinois on Wednesday. The tornadoes that swept through Illinois on Tuesday night are to blame for two deaths. An uprooted tree killed a 76-year-old man…
Chicago, IL (KTRS) Illinois elementary schools and day care centers will have to test drinking water for lead under legislation that Governor Bruce Rauner signed Bruce Monday morning. Governor Rauner says the new law “is a step in protecting our children from the devastating effects of lead exposure.” SB 550 will ensure proper health protections…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner says he has friends in Donald Trump’s new administration and expects Illinois to have “a voice and a good relationship” with the president-elect. Rauner said Wednesday that two of Trump’s “most senior folks in his administration” are good friends and allies but didn’t name them. He said…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The Illinois governor is tossing in $100,000 of his own money to boost the campaign of Indiana’s Republican gubernatorial candidate even as the two states scuffle for jobs. The money Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner gave to Indiana Lt. Gov. Eric Holcomb’s campaign is a small fraction of the $16 million that the…
Democrats hold supermajorities of 71-47 in the House and 39-20 in the Senate