Illinois Legislative News: November 3, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group 2025 Veto Session Key Legislation The Illinois General Assembly concluded a two-week fall veto session in the early morning hours of Friday, October 31. Following an uneventful first week of...

Illinois Legislative News: October 27, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group In his $16.6B 2026 budget proposal, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed resurrecting the city’s head tax to help close a projected $1.15B budget shortfall. This tax would charge businesses...

Illinois Legislative News: October 20, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group Fiscal Year 2026-31 Proposed Highway and Multimodal Improvement Program The Illinois General Assembly returned to Springfield for the first week of a two-week fall veto session from Tuesday,...

Illinois Legislative News: October 13, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group Fiscal Year 2026-31 Proposed Highway and Multimodal Improvement Program Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Transportation have announced a historic $50.6 billion six-year plan to...

Illinois Legislative News: October 6, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group As of midnight on October 1, 2025, the federal government shut down after Congress failed to pass a new funding bill. While shutdowns aren’t unusual, this one comes with added concern: some...

Illinois Legislative News: September 29, 2025 On September 23, 2025, Gov. JB Pritzker signed Executive Order 2025-05, instructing state agencies to reserve 4% of their FY 2026 appropriation to mitigate the economic policies of the Trump Administration. According to...

Illinois Legislative News: September 22, 2025 On September 18, the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee held a hearing discussing SB 40, an energy omnibus bill that was considered at the end of the 2025 regular session of the Illinois General Assembly. In the...

Illinois Legislative News: September 15, 2025 With the fall veto session about a month away, conversations are ramping up surrounding which outstanding issues the General Assembly will take on. Several major issues were left unresolved earlier this year, and since...

Illinois Legislative News: September 8, 2025 Last week, President Trump continued to stand by his commitment to send the National Guard into Chicago. Though an exact timeline isn’t clear, he’s pitching it as a necessary step to deal with crime even though murders in...

Illinois Legislative News: September 2, 2025 Bill Signing Update The 2025 regular session of the Illinois General Assembly adjourned on June 1 after passing a total of 436 bills. Many major initiatives including the Fiscal Year 2026 budget package and other measures...