News & Announcements

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...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Happy 4th of July a day early! Thank you to not only our five local legislators that were able to join us last Thursday for our June member breakfast, but also to...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Your government affairs roundup is back in your email inbox after a week off in observance of the Juneteenth holiday. Our office is looking forward to our June...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Governor Pritzker made the FY ’25 budget official last Wednesday, downplaying Democratic divisions as he signed a sweeping $53.1 billion budget that relies on $1.1...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: We’re a week removed from the wrap up of the spring session in Illinois. Last week’s roundup provided a full recap of the state budget passage. All in all, more than...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: House lawmakers finally approved the state budget for fiscal year ’25 in the early hours today after brief floor action yesterday afternoon and committee hearings...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: The legislative session is scheduled to end this Friday, but the Illinois General Assembly is still trying to wrap things up on Governor Pritzker’s proposed $52+...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: With about a week and a half left in this state legislative session, legislators are pushing bills to the finish line as they work at the same time on the budget...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Today’s roundup has information on a few interesting topics that have popped up since the last update such as an election law change, the possibility of a service...

Government Affairs Roundup "Your Timely Roundup of Local, State, and Federal Updates" Chamber members: Last week news was shared on the FTC’s ruling to ban noncompete clauses and now this week we share news on the Department of Labor’s plan to raise the salary...