CHICAGO — To enact his progressive agenda, Mayor Brandon Johnson is looking to Springfield for an assist, but powerful Speaker of the Illinois House Emanuel “Chris” Welch warns that money is tight.
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WESTCHESTER, Ill. (WLS) -- Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch has a warning for Mayor Brandon Johnson: getting help from Springfield this year could be an uphill battle.
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Illinois’ new batch of lawmakers — sworn into the 104th General Assembly on Wednesday — will face a number of challenges in 2025.
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A new Illinois General Assembly was sworn in for the next two years on Wednesday, with the House and Senate ceremonies taking two starkly different tones.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch discusses the End of the Spring Legislative Session and 2024 successes.
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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.
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One-on-one with Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch. And upcoming deregulation for locksmiths has some consumer advocates worried.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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“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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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