Government Affairs Roundup for 12.18.2024
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Happy Holidays to all of you and your family. This will be our final edition of the roundup in 2024 with plans to return January 8th. The City of Joliet finalized...
Government Affairs Roundup for 12.11.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Today’s roundup will be the second to last of 2024. I hope that you’ve all found the information to be relative and informative. With that being said, here are...
Government Affairs Roundup for 12.4.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: I hope you all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. It’s budget time locally and Will County has approved their budget for 2025. More information is below on that. I’ll...
Government Affairs Roundup for 11.27.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I’m thankful that you all continue to find this weekly update useful and as always thankful for the support of CITGO as our roundup...
Government Affairs Roundup for 11.20.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Final election results were counted and confirmed yesterday. Below is a rundown of the winners. Congratulations to each of them as we wish them well in fulfilling...
Government Affairs Roundup for 11.13.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: We will announce and congratulate all of those who officially won their races next week as part of our roundup. This week, unofficial election results show no seats...
Government Affairs Roundup for 10.30.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: It’s a quick roundup today as we’re less than one week away from election day. The information and link to the podcasts of our candidate forum on WJOL radio remains...
Government Affairs Roundup for 10.23.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Early voting in Illinois is on track to potentially break records this year, reflecting a nationwide trend. Swing states like Georgia and North Carolina have already...
Government Affairs Roundup for 10.9.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Since the last update, major announcements have been made concerning vital transportation projects here in the region. Read more about below concerning the I-80 and...
Government Affairs Roundup for 10.2.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: In Congress’ last action before Election Day, the Senate cleared a stopgap funding bill that heads off a government shutdown. President Biden signed the three-month...
Government Affairs Roundup for 9.25.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: After last week’s update the question on the federal level became “how will Congress avert a shutdown now?” Speaker Johnson’s funding gamble didn’t pay off after a...
Government Affairs Roundup for 9.18.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Another great celebration day, this time we honored Kelly Rohder-Tonelli with the ATHENA Award – Congratulations Kelly! At the time that I scheduled this message,...
Government Affairs Roundup for 9.11.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Thanks to those that were able to join us yesterday for our 110-year anniversary celebration. It was nice to see so many familiar faces and great supporters of our...
Government Affairs Roundup for 9.5.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Today’s focus will be on pro-growth tax policies that are scheduled to end in 2025. *Government Affairs Roundup brought to you by CITGO* The Urgent Need for...
Government Affairs Roundup for 8.28.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Exciting events are around the corner for the chamber in September as we host our 110 Year Anniversary celebration and our ATHENA Award recognition. Congratulations...
Government Affairs Roundup for 8.21.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Thanks to all that participated as a sponsor, volunteer, attendee, vendor, or in any other capacity for our annual New Orleans North festival. Once again, a good...
Government Affairs Roundup for 8.7.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: The roundup is back with a full report this week covering some bills signed by Governor Pritzker as well as Quantum Computing, PBM, and Carbon Capture news....
Government Affairs Roundup for 7.24.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Two weekends now with shocking news events on the Presidential campaign trail. I don’t think we need to cover either as there is more than enough news out...
Government Affairs Roundup for 7.17.2024
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Another short report this week as things are quiet for the summer policy wise, but certainly not quiet on the election cycle front as we have the Republican National...
Government Affairs Roundup for 7.10.24
Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: A short report for this week, but still important information to share. See below for information on where the state of Illinois finished financially for fiscal year...