OPINION and Order. Signed by the Honorable April M. Perry on 10/10/2025. Mailed notice. (jcc,) (Entered: 10/10/2025)

* I know summer’s over, but I love this song… The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky

* Tribune… A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square. Debbie Brockman, who has worked as a producer for WGN since 2011, according to her LinkedIn profile, was taken to the ground face down on Foster Avenue [...]

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* Subscribers were briefed on this early today. On Monday, I told you that the legislature’s Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability suspected the dramatic fall-off corporate income tax was tied to tax changes made by the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” The Governor’s Office of Management and Budget now confirms COGFA’s suspicion. [...]

* Not including all the charges that have been dropped, this makes four losses in four days… A federal judge has ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its removal. In a [...]

* Click here for some background. 2nd Congressional District Democratic candidate Sen. Willie Preston… At a Second Congressional District forum at Kennedy King College hosted by Citizen Action Illinois on Thursday, state Sen. Willie Preston - chair of the Illinois Senate Black Legislative Caucus - called on the rest of the field to join his call [...]

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* Noisy… Wrigley Field tonight pic.twitter.com/l4mb4QIC0j — Zach Zaidman (@ZachZaidman) October 10, 2025

[The following is a paid advertisement.] In Illinois’ southernmost communities, 18% of residents live in poverty and have historically low levels of education and high rates of illness and mortality. Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) serves this 16-county rural area that’s considered medically underserved.   The federal 340B program has been a lifeline for hospitals that are often [...]

* ICYMI: Judge approves request to remove fencing outside Broadview ICE facility. CBS Chicago… - Broadview officials had sued, saying the fence, put up on Sept. 23 outside the ICE facility, blocked a public road and could impact first responders at the scene. - U.S. District Judge LaShonda Hunt issued a Temporary Restraining Order late Thursday requiring [...]

* Sun-Times… A federal judge said she is partially granting the state’s request to block the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard units in the Chicago area as part of an immigration enforcement action. After hearing arguments from lawyers representing the state and the Justice Department, U.S. District Judge April Perry said she will grant “in part” [...]

* WTTW… A federal judge is set to decide Thursday whether to block President Donald Trump from deploying 200 members of the Texas National Guard alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to the Chicago area. […] The hearing began Thursday morning with U.S. District Court Judge April Perry saying she has “several pages of questions” [...]

* 7th Congressional District Democratic candidate Richard Boykin is up on TV with an ad spotted today during WGN’s midday news… * 314 Action Fund endorses Dr. Thomas Fisher for the 7th CD. Press release… Today 314 Action Fund, the nation’s only organization dedicated to recruiting, training and electing doctors and scientists, endorsed Dr. Thomas Fisher [...]

* I heard somewhere about a baseball game yesterday. What happened?

* Several Republican states have asked a federal court for leave to file an amicus brief supporting the federal government’s argument against Illinois’ lawsuit seeking to stop national guards from being deployed here. Iowa, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas and West [...]

* Next week’s committee hearings were posted right before the site went down. I finally gave up at about 11 o’clock last night…

* Mary Randolph with the Northwestern University Medill Local News Initiative… The CEO of the Illinois Press Association, who had joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration for actions toward journalists outside a Chicago-area ICE facility, resigned this week following a dispute with the IPA’s board over the litigation. Don Craven, who had led the IPA since [...]

* Republican gubernatorial candidate… Hello everybody. This is James Mendrick, DuPage County Sheriff running for Illinois Governor. We’re here again today to talk about the ICE raids. It’s heating up, it’s heating up big time in the city. The gang populations are putting up messaging now saying that they’re going to resist the federal authorities [...]

[The following is a paid advertisement.] Voters and the Governor already rejected lawmakers’ push for anti-competitive “Right of First Refusal” (ROFR) legislation that hands transmission contracts to incumbent utilities. Now, the same principles that would raise costs on ratepayers are back. They are trying to rebrand ROFR and pretend it’s about protecting Illinois. Gatekeeping legislation with the [...]

* Earlier this year, the Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois projected the RTA would receive an unexpected $150 million in sales tax and state matching funds due to a broadening of the online sales tax. TFI has now updated its projection for 2025 to $200 million. Next year’s $225 million forecast has not changed… The [...]

[The following is a paid advertisement.] There’s a lot at stake for Illinois hospitals participating in the federal 340B program: first and foremost, it’s their patients. The program, which dates to 1992, has helped hospitals serving uninsured and low-income patients expand access to care and provide more comprehensive healthcare services. Drugmaker restrictions have made it difficult [...]

* ICYMI: Texas National Guard troops now protecting federal property in Chicago area, official says. AP… -An “element” of 200 Texas Guard troops were working in the Chicago area, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Northern Command. - The troops are in the city to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement buildings and other federal facilities [...]