Obama Allots $19 Mil to Register Immigrant Voters
APRIL 18, 2016
A year after President Obama launched his Task Force on New Americans the administration is injecting it with a $19 million infusion so it can achieve its key initiative of...
Task Force on Consolidation and Unfunded Mandates
On December 17 I attended a Final Report meeting for the Task Force on Consolidation and Unfunded Mandates in Chicago. The Task Force's purpose is to study issues of local government and school...
February 3rd 2017
February 03, 2017
Senate could vote on budget framework
Through budget cuts and critical structural reforms that will bring stability to the state, the Illinois Senate could vote next week on a bipartisan budget framework that would produce a...
Brendan Bakala
/ JOBS + GROWTH
MAY 12, 2017
A new survey from Harris Poll for Express Employment Professionals shows that nearly half of unemployed people in Illinois have given up looking for work.
Forty-four percent of unemployed Illinoisans have given up on...
Lets make calls together to help FREEZE property taxes, with the assistance of Americans for Prosperity
Join us April 25 to make calls to encourage our elected officials to do the right thing and freeze property taxes.
Illinois has some of the...
Cook County Crawling With STDs
Only one county in the entire country has more cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia per capita than Cook County.
By Joseph Hosey (Patch Staff) - November 1, 2016 12:24 pm ET
CHICAGO, IL — Cook...
News From
State Representative Mark Batinick
For Immediate Release Contact: Debbie Kraulidis
February 23, 2017 (815) 254-0000
Will, Kendall County residents encouraged to make their voice heard on state issues
PLAINFIELD – State Representative Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) is providing a new resource...
VOTE TO STOP THE DIVERSION OF OUR TAX DOLLARS
According to reports, $6.8 billion—with a “b”—has been “swept” from Illinois transportation funds for other uses over the past 10 years and as much as $500,000 as recently as last year. ...
Illinois State Rifle Association Constitutional Rights Fundraiser
September 14th, 2017
Clarion Hotel, 411 South Larkin Ave, Joliet, IL
6:00 pm, Doors open / Cocktails
6:45 Dinner
Once a year, ISRA Member and Will County Board Member Steve Balich hosts a fundraiser for the Illinois...
Texas group sues to halt investor-visa program
By Kenric Ward / October 12, 2016 /
AP file photo
OUT OF BUSINESS? Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was named in a lawsuit that seeks to shut down...
