Four days of special session have cost Illinois taxpayers an additional $200,000 for less than 80 minutes of work.
Cook County has lost nearly 50,000 black residents since the 2010 census, and the rate is accelerating.
Cook County’s population has dropped by 2,030 since 2011, driven by the out-migration of over 230,000 residents, on net.
Civil asset forfeiture reform has now cleared the Illinois General Assembly.
Three days of special session have cost Illinois taxpayers $150,000 for less than an hour of work.
State representatives passed House Resolution 290, encouraging tourism between Illinois and the Bahamas.
The measure would set a week aside to honor and appreciate the staff of MacNeal Hospital. The state continues without a budget.
Lawmakers passed a resolution to issue commemorative medallions while the state continues to go without a budget.
State lawmakers still haven’t passed a budget, but the Illinois House of Representatives passed a resolution June 22 declaring Southern Illinois the “Eclipse Crossroads of America.”
Less than 43 minutes of work over two days has cost Illinois taxpayers $100,000.
Instead of working to pass a budget, House representatives passed a nonbinding resolution to rename a portion of Roosevelt Road on the boundary line of Chicago and Cicero.
Metra officials say they’ve reduced the cost of the lobbyist firms’ contracts by bringing down monthly retainer costs by 15 percent.