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News from May 2019

ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION: IDFPR Releases a Report Highlighting that Less than 1 Percent of Eligible License Applicants are Denied Because of Past Convictions

By Press release submission | May 3, 2019

The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation published a report highlighting that prior convictions are rarely a bar to obtaining a license.

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State's misinterpretation of minimum wage will hurt – not help – economy, petroleum exec warns

By Glenn Minnis | May 3, 2019

Even before William Fleischli was aware of the results of a new national study that points to the potential pitfalls of the state’s minimum wage hike, the Illinois Petroleum Marketers Association executive vice president had his concerns about the legislation.

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Illinois hospitality exec predicts minimum-wage hike will have a crippling trickle-down effect

By Glenn Minnis | May 3, 2019

Illinois Hotel & Lodging President Michael Jacobsen fears the effects of the recently passed minimum wage increase will have swift and lasting consequences across Illinois and the hospitality industry.

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Rep. Wehrli takes DCFS to task at budget hearing just days after body of AJ Freund is discovered

By Kyla Asbury | May 3, 2019

Illinois lawmakers used a 2020 fiscal budget hearing to try to get some answers from the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) about last month's tragic death of 5-year-old AJ Freund, whose parents have been charged with the boy's murder.

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While creative, Wirepoints notes that Pritzker's alleged tax scheme is nothing new in Chicagoland

By Glenn Minnis | May 2, 2019

An article posted on the government watchdog website Wirepoints said that Illinoisans should not have been too shocked to learn about Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s alleged ploy of removing toilets from his Gold Coast mansion to avoid a higher property tax bill.

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Ideas Illinois' Baise fears jobs tax will 'punish middle-class families' after they vote for it

By Glenn Minnis | May 2, 2019

Ideas Illinois Chairman Greg Baise finds it intolerable that middle-class residents stand to be the real losers in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated income tax system, should it continue to move forward.

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Latest amendment to Illinois sports betting bill would prohibit use of mobile and online sites

By Kyla Asbury | May 2, 2019

State Rep. Bob Rita (D-Blue Island) has introduced a fifth amendment for a bill pertaining to sports gambling in Illinois that would limit mobile and online sports betting.

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ILGOP Chairman Schneider warns that tax hike will only worsen things after Senate Dems win vote

By Glenn Minnis | May 2, 2019

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Tim Schneider is confident that voters will make Senate Democrats pay for their push to repeal the state’s flat tax in favor of a graduated income tax system.

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Government unions defying Janus ruling face uptick in legal pressure to comply

By W.J. Kennedy | May 2, 2019

Legal pressure is ramping up on government unions to abide by a nearly year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision, Janus v. AFSCME, making it unconstitutional for them to deduct dues from the paychecks of non-union employees.

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ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT ON AGING: Celebrates Older Americans Month

By Press release submission | May 2, 2019

Department encourages older adults across the state to “Connect, Create, Contribute”

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ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: Governor Pritzker and IDOA Announce Availability of Industrial Hemp Applications

By Press release submission | May 1, 2019

Applications can be found on the IDOA website