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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) struck $11.2 million from Ameren Illinois’ $59.6 million multi-year rate reconciliation request. The decision is the first in a new performance-based evaluation process designed to reconcile actual utility spending with the approved investments outlined in the utility’s multi-year grid and rate plans. “The ICC’s responsibility is to balance…

When Governor Pritzker signed the physician assisted suicide bill into law, he put Illinois on adangerous and heartbreaking path—one that legitimizes suicide as a valid solution for life’schallenges. Rather than investing in real end-of-life support such as palliative and hospice care,pain management, and family-centered accompaniment, our state has chosen to normalizekilling oneself. This law ignores…

QUINCY — State Senator Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) has been named one of the most effective legislators in Illinois by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. “I am honored to be recognized as one of the most effective legislators in the Illinois Senate,” Tracy said. “As legislators, we are elected to represent the best interests of the…

QUINCY — Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey made his first public campaign appearance Sunday, nearly three months after the tragic October death of his son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren in a Montana helicopter crash. Bailey appeared with boxes and boxes of toys at the event at The Armory, which also served as a Toys for…

The mayor before the vote reflected on the weight of his office, even in “times of great consternation and division,” by invoking civil rights leaders and connecting their struggles with his attempt to tax the rich.

 

“The mayor led us to this fiscal cliff. If there is a shutdown, he wears the jacket for it. Today was the first step in really trying to prevent that from happening," Ald. Scott Waguespack said.

The projected shortfalls would begin in the Commonwealth Edison service territory in northern Illinois by 2029 and in the Ameren service area that covers most of downstate Illinois by 2031. They’d continue to worsen and make Illinois more reliant on energy imports without action by state policymakers.

"Illinois. Where do I start."

The action before the Supreme Court is heating up a little over three months since a federal appeals court in Chicago overturned the ruling of a Rockford federal judge in favor of the gun owners.

"Everyone is pointing to the recently passed Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act as a possible solution because it gives the state more pollution control flexibility, but even that may not be adequate if there’s not enough will at the top to make extra sure we don’t enter a crisis stage. The governor has expressed confidence […]

So far, CPS officials say the delay has forced them to take out $1.6 billion in short-term loans for operating expenses, like paying staff and keeping the lights on, and another $246 million loan to keep its teachers pension fund solvent. For these two loans combined, the district will pay $33 million in interest.