Illinois Legislative News: December 16, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group COGFA Annual Pension Update On Monday, the Commission of Government Forecasting and Accountability (COGFA) released their FY 2024 pension briefing. As of June 30, 2024 all five state...

Illinois Legislative News: December 9, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group Administrative Rules CAPITOL COMPLEX   The SECRETARY OF STATE adopted emergency amendments to the Part titled Public Use of the Capitol Complex and Springfield Facilities (71 IAC 2005; 48 Ill...

Illinois Legislative News: November 18, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group The Illinois General Assembly returned to Springfield for the first week of fall veto session on Tuesday and Wednesday. Both chambers cancelled their scheduled session day on Thursday....

Illinois Legislative News: 2024 General Election Results Third Reading Consulting Group In what was a bad showing for Democrats nationally, Illinois Democrats held onto all their Congressional seats and appear likely to keep their current General Assembly...

Illinois Legislative News: October 21, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group On October 15, the Better Government Association (BGA) held a discussion around Fixing Illinois’ Pension System. In conjunction with the discussion, BGA, the Civic Committee, and the Civic...

Illinois Legislative News: October 14, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group Illinois Leaders Travel to Japan to Promote the State Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other Illinois leaders went on a six-day trade mission to Japan from October 5 to 10. 49 government and business...

Illinois Legislative News: October 7, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group SB 2412, a mini-election omnibus that passed the General Assembly in May, will put three non-binding advisory questions on the November 5 election ballot statewide. Given that they are...

Illinois Legislative News: September 23, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group Through the first two months of FY 2025, Illinois revenues are up about 6% over FY 2024, but the pace of economic growth appears to be slowing. Both sales tax and corporate income tax...

Illinois Legislative News: September 16, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group Following the announcement that Chicago will face a projected $982.4M budget gap in 2025 and a $223M budget gap at the end of 2024, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget office issued a citywide...

Illinois Legislative News: September 9, 2024 Third Reading Consulting Group Chicago Projects $982.4M Budget Gap in 2025 On August 29, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced that the city is facing a $982.4M budget gap in 2025. This represents the largest deficit...