Tag Archives: Capitol News Illinois
Illinois joins WHO global outbreak network after U.S. withdraws
By NIKOEL HYTREK Capitol News Illinois nhytrek@capitolnewsillinois.com Illinois will join the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, or GOARN, to counterbalance the fe...
Feb 04, 2026
Pritzker drops $5M to boost Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton in Senate race
By BRENDEN MOORE & BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary Gov. JB Pritzker accounted for nearly 80% of the $6.3 million Illinois Future PAC raised in 2025...
Feb 03, 2026 Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton, U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi and U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly. (Capitol News Illinois photos by Jerry Nowicki)
Search warrant reveals FBI is investigating former Carlyle police chief
BETH HUNDSDORFER Capitol News Illinois Bhundsdorfer@capitolnewsillinois.com JANELLE O'DEA Illinois Answers Project This story is a collaboration between Capitol News Illinois and the Illinois Answers ...
Feb 03, 2026
As Illinois House returns to Springfield, Democrats focus on Trump
By GEORGIA EPIPHANIOU & ERIKA TULFO Medill Illinois News Bureau news@capitolnewsillinois.com Article Summary: The Illinois House of Representatives met Wednesday to pass Democrat-introduced symbol...
Jan 27, 2026 Rep. Lilian Jiménez speaks on the House floor during the October 2025 veto session. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Needling Trump as 2028 looms: Inside JB Pritzker's all-of-the-above media strategy
By BEN SZALINSKI & BRENDEN MOORE Capitol News Illinois news@capitolnewsillinois.com While sitting for his second Fox News interview of 2025 in late October, Gov. JB Pritzker made a plain observati...
Jan 12, 2026 Gov. JB Pritzker takes questions from reporters outside the Illinois State Board of Elections in Springfield after filing petitions to run for a third term on Oct. 27, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Sean Grayson's attorneys seek new trial after murder conviction
By DEAN OLSEN Illinois Times dolsen@illinoistimes.com Former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson's lawyers say he deserves a new trial for the 2024 murder of Sonya Massey because the presidi...
Dec 03, 2025 Ex-Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson’s body camera footage shows the officers who greeted him on July 6, 2024, as he exited the home of Sonya Massey after fatally shooting her. Grayson disparaged Massey and called her “crazy” in the video, which his attorneys say should not have been shown in the trial that led to his second-degree murder conviction. (Screenshot from body camera footage)
Ameren residential gas customers to see average $3.65 increase on bills in January
By MAGGIE DOUGHERTY Capitol News Illinois mdougherty@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Ameren Illinois residential customers will see an average $3.65 increase on their natural gas bills in January af...
Dec 01, 2025 Ameren Illinois says that natural gas storage fields, like this one in Glasford, help insulate its consumers from high supply prices during peak demand in winter. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Budzinski intervenes in local housing dispute on behalf of low-income residents
By MAGGIE DOUGHERTY Capitol News Illinois mdougherty@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski is demanding to know why a building management company accused of failing to provid...
Nov 26, 2025 U.S. Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-13th District, has gone to bat for the residents of a Springfield housing development. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
Requests for new K-12 funding in Illinois likely to outstrip available resources
SPRINGFIELD - If advocates, stakeholders and members of the public were granted all their requests for public school funding next year, lawmakers would have to increase the state's K-12 education budg...
Nov 24, 2025 Members of the Illinois State Board of Education and Superintendent Tony Sanders are pictured at a 2023 board meeting. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Adams)
Full SNAP benefits to resume this month after government shutdown ends
By MAGGIE DOUGHERTY Capitol News Illinois mdougherty@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - The Illinois Department of Human Services announced Thursday that residents who received partial or delayed SNAP ...
Nov 17, 2025 Fruits and vegetables are pictured at a County Market grocery store in Springfield. The items are eligible for purchase under the federal SNAP program. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andrew Campbell)
