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President Joe Biden signed a proclamation on Friday to designate the “Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument” on the 116th anniversary of the deadly riot in the state capital.
Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – The speaker of the Illinois House was in the Oval Office Friday, when President Biden declared the 1908 race riot site in Springfield to be a national monument.
Bellwood officials, developers, and community members gathered on July 9 for a groundbreaking for the first phase of the $42.5 million Bellwood Gateway Project, two four-story apartment buildings flanking St. Charles Rd.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch discusses the End of the Spring Legislative Session and 2024 successes.
Governor JB Pritzker and state officials meet to sign the FY 25 state budget. Speaker Welch addresses why it helps make Illinois a great place to live, work and play.
One-on-one with Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch. And upcoming deregulation for locksmiths has some consumer advocates worried.
Today, we’re going to focus on the Illinois General Assembly. On Wednesday morning, members of the House of Representatives passed a spending and taxation plan for the budget year that begins July 1st. The package includes more than $53 billion in discretionary spending and puts in place some $750 million in tax increases on things like sports betting companies, stores and other businesses.
Who’s in charge here? The heavy hitters in our Power 50 know how to use their influence to make things happen in Chicago and beyond.
MANAGEMENT COURSE: Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch is bringing together his leadership team today to discuss “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek — a book about achieving success through teamwork.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, briefed on the Related Midwest plan, told the Sun-Times “pretty pictures” building public interest are not enough. “If they’re trying to do something in this legislative session, they need to start educating and informing people relatively soon.”
“Final steps in the organization of a Rotary club for Maywood were taken last night by a group of representative business men, headed by Edward A. Cogley, thus making this community a part of Rotary International which during the past nineteen years has established itself for the development of the idea of practical service in more than sixteen hundred cities in twenty-eight countries,” reads the first paragraph in a Maywood Herald article from Feb. 29, 1924.
CHICAGO — Illinois Speaker of the House Emanuel “Chris” Welch with new details about the stadium searches for White Sox and Bears as well as the migrant crisis. WGN-TV spoke to him Tuesday morning before the House gaveled in.
Eddie Mae Stegall, affectionately known as Mother Stegall, may have thought she was at Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch’s district offices at 1005 Roosevelt Rd. in Westchester on Jan. 23 to give her thoughts on his performance in office so far.
“I see you on the TV — you’re looking good,” Stegall told Welch during small talk before Welch told her why she was there.
“I was hoping I could bring you to Springfield, but it’s so far and such a long drive that I figured it would be easier to do it here,” Welch said. “This is a very special and long-overdue recognition of you for all the work you’ve done in this community.”
Senior citizens from across the state have a new reason to visit Westchester now that there’s a senior-only DMV in the Village Hall’s Community Room.
The new senior-only site, where the elderly can do things like renew their driver’s licenses and get Real ID’s, all without an appointment, is just the third in the state behind pilot locations that opened last month in Evanston and Bridgeview.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The speaker of the Illinois House on Wednesday won approval for allowing legislative staff to organize for collective bargaining, overcoming Republican objections about whether it’s necessary.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois House approved a plan Wednesday to allow legislative staff to unionize and collectively bargain for livable wages and reasonable hours among other priorities.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch says he wants the state’s legislative staff to be allowed to unionize. The Democrat authored a bill he says would allow that last week, even though it’s unusual for the house speaker to write their own legislation.
SPRINGFIELD – House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, has filed legislation that would, for the first time in Illinois, authorize legislative staff to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.
Employees of the speaker’s office in the Illinois legislature may soon get the opportunity to unionize.
House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, has filed legislation that would, for the first time in Illinois, authorize legislative staff to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch has filed a bill that would allow House and Senate legislative staffers the ability to unionize. It’s an extraordinary move given the House speaker isn’t usually one to carry his own legislation.
SPRINGFIELD — Nearly a year after legislative staff in House Speaker Chris Welch's office privately declared their intent to unionize, there finally appears to be a path forward into the unchartered waters.
In a call with reporters Wednesday, the governor said he is actively pursuing Illinois partnerships with electric vehicle companies and original equipment manufacturers.
The landmark decision clears the way for unprecedented criminal justice reform. Here’s how politicians, prosecutors and advocates responded.
Last Wednesday, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a $50.4 billion budget for the coming fiscal year after lawmakers missed a self-imposed deadline and were forced to return to the statehouse after Memorial Day.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — After being unanimously passed by Democrats with no Republican support, Governor JB Pritzker signed the bill containing the fiscal year budget for 2024 into law Wednesday.
The governor’s office said line-item reductions of $192,700 were made after a review found that cost-of-living pay raises granted to constitutional officers, legislators and some appointed officials exceeded 5%, which they said was unconstitutional.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Governor JB Pritzker signed the state budget into law in Chicago Wednesday.
The spending package is the largest budget in state history, over $50 billion. It includes major boosts for education, and health care and childcare. It also invests in law enforcement and measures meant to help the homeless.
It will be up to Gov. J.B. Pritzker to slice in half spending on health care for undocumented immigrants, and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said he’s confident the governor can do it.
Minority representation among executives at Chicago’s 50 largest public companies has increased over the past 10 years, with local numbers ahead of national statistics, according to advocacy organization Chicago United.