Illinois Legislative News: January 19, 2026 Third Reading Consulting Group Illinois General Assembly Back in Session The Illinois General Assembly returned to Springfield last week. The Senate met briefly on Tuesday and Wednesday, although they conducted no...

Illinois Legislative News: January 12, 2026 Third Reading Consulting Group Third Reading Consulting Group The federal government, effective immediately, is withholding more than $10B in family and childcare assistance from Illinois and four other states as part of a...

Illinois Legislative News: December 22, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group State Agencies Release 2025 Resource Adequacy Study Illinois’ 2025 Resource Adequacy Study, released on December 15, includes an assessment of energy reliability needs in the northern...

Illinois Legislative News: December 15, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group COGFA Releases FY 2025 Pension Update The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (COGFA) provided an update on the performance of the State’s five pension systems in FY 2025....

Illinois Legislative News: November 17, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group Administrative Rules CAPITOL COMPLEX ACCESS The SECRETARY OF STATE proposed an amendment to the Part titled Public Use of the Capitol Complex and Springfield Facilities (71 IAC 2005; 49 Ill...

Illinois Legislative News: November 17, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group Following a highly productive veto session in October, the Illinois General Assembly will return to Springfield for their 2026 regular session in January. The Senate convenes on January 13,...

Illinois Legislative News: November 10, 2025 Third Reading Consulting Group 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 veto session from October 14-16,...

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,...