State representative Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, had an extended absence from the State General Assembly due to a health issue that has since abated. She publicly thanks representative Paul Jacobs, a practicing optometric physician, who consulted with Hernandez and advised her to seek medical attention, a move that may have saved
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your household is asleep. Suddenly, you’re awakened by a loud noise. Someone or an army of someones has crashed through your front door. The
By Jerry Nowicki Governor JB Pritzker signed his final first-term budget into law Tuesday, a roughly $46 billion spending plan buoyed by pandemic-driven revenue windfalls and a current-year surplus that helped the State pay down debts and offer temporary tax relief. Among the three budget-related bills signed Tuesday, House Bill
By Jason Crane The Aurora City Council gave consent to a permit for the development of Fourteen Forty Nine Senior Estates Subdivision to be constructed in the same site of the demolished Jericho Circle subdivision at the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting Tuesday, April 19. City
The popular “Coffee with Kifowit” series of get-togethers, presented by State representative Stephanie Kifowit, will return in person beginning Monday, April 25 in the Meeting Room of the Oswego Library, 111 Reading Drive, Montgomery. “The Spring session of the General Assembly has wrapped up, and that gives me the chance
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead It is financial tyranny. The U.S. government, and that includes the current administration, is spending money it doesn’t have on programs it can’t afford, and taxpayers must foot the bill for government’s fiscal insanity. Let’s talk numbers, shall we? The national debt (the
By Jason Crane Mayor of Aurora, Richard Irvin, presented the Mayor’s Award of Excellence to many individuals at the Aurora city government City Council meeting Tuesday, April 12. The theme was A Night of Culture and Champions: • Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month Proclamation with members of the Illinois Sikh
By Peter Hancock Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing Session Recap series in which Capitol News Illinois is following up on many of the more-than 200 measures that passed both houses of the Illinois General Assembly during the final week of Spring session which adjourned at 6
Starved Rock and Open Roads Chapter members pose with David Welter, Republican Party, second from left, House of Representatives representing the 75th District in parts of Grundy,
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton, or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you.”—Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department Police violence has not lessened. Police shootings have not abated. Police reforms have
By Peter Hancock A bill that allows teachers and other school and university employees or contractors who are fully vaccinated to take paid administrative leave if they have to miss work due to coronavirus (COVID-19)-related issues cleared the Illinois Senate Thursday and will soon be sent to governor JB Pritzker.
State representative Stephanie Kifowit (D-Oswego) and fellow chief co-sponsors, representatives Keith Wheeler, Barbara Hernandez, Maura Hirschauer, and Mark Batinick, and all other members of the Illinois House passed House Joint Resolution 79 to honor the memory of U.S. Navy veteran Herschel Luckinbill by designating a section of U.S. Route 30
Recognizing that global climate change demands local climate action, the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Central Kane County invites individuals from the Tri-City Area (Batavia-Geneva-St. Charles) and surrounding region to a lively online discussion and planning session, to be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, on Zoom. Register
By Jason Crane At the Aurora city government Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting Tuesday, April 5, Council members discussed a resolution to enter into a donation agreement with the Aurora Rotary Club Foundation (the foundation arm of the Rotary Club of Aurora) for their inventory of lights displays. City
Tuesday, the Illinois House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to hold Russia accountable for its unprovoked and brutal invasion of Ukraine on every aspect the State of Illinois has the ability to act upon and support the people of Ukraine. assistant minority leader State representative Keith Wheeler, R-Oswego, is chief
An Easter egg hunt will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 9, Hill Elementary School, 724 Pennsylvania Avenue in Aurora. City of Light Church, which meets at the school, will be the host. The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. Rain date is Sunday, April 10, at
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Once again, the programming has changed. Just like clockwork, the wall-to-wall news coverage of the latest crisis has shifted gears. We have gone from COVID-19 lockdowns to Trump-Biden election drama to the Russia-Ukraine crisis to the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings to Will
By Bela “Bill” SuhaydaSugar Grove, Ill. What would you think if you asked a person what the weather was going to be tomorrow who answered, “I don’t know, I’m not a meteorologist? You probably would think they were joking…right? There was a question asked of candidate for U.S. Supreme Court
By Grace Kinnicutt Illinois lawmakers have formed the Illinois Assyrian Caucus in an effort to help them understand and learn about challenges facing the Assyrian community and how to address them. Senator Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, announced the formation of the caucus at a news conference in early March. The caucus
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead No matter how much money the government pulls in, it’s never enough, so the government has come up with a new plan to make it even easier for its agents to seize Americans’ bank accounts. Make way for the digital dollar. In an
