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,...

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...