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Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Texas is getting a lot of attention for gerrymandering, but here in Illinois it has been a hot topic now for at least a decade. See below for a new push here at...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: A short and quick read today covering information on a short-term federal government funding stopgap bill and an Illinois Tollway 20-year plan. Finally, today will...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Today’s roundup contains a number of updates on various subjects such as University admissions, transit funding, housing, and education funding.   *Government...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Today’s roundup contains a number of updates on various subjects such as tariffs, more impact from the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” and additional state programming....

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Congressional Republicans have finally delivered their “big, beautiful bill,” but now face two urgent priorities: enacting billions in spending cuts and preventing a...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: We’re back this week with another roundup. Plenty to share below. I also wanted to share the link (don’t think shared earlier) to the State of the City luncheon...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: The governor has signed the new state budget which will begin on July 1. More on what is included in the budget can be found below. Additionally, it was announced...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Here is some follow-up information from what happened and didn’t happen at the end of May as well as throughout the state legislative session. We do have a...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Today’s roundup will be solely focused on what transpired over the last few days in Springfield concerning the state budget for fiscal year 2026 and other topics of...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Thanks to all that joined us today for Joliet Mayor Terry D’Arcy’s State of the City address. Mayor D’Arcy did a wonderful job of highlighting the many positives...