* 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 [...]

* What’s going on? Keep it Illinois-centric please…

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* Subscribers were told about this earlier today. Tribune… A Chicago federal judge has extended a nationwide consent decree requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to better document and report probable cause for immigration arrests and found the agency repeatedly violated the 2022 agreement by making “warrantless arrests” both before and during “Operation Midway Blitz.” In his [...]

* The Hill… Jesse Jackson Jr. is seeking a return to Congress. Jackson, the son of civil rights advocate Jesse Jackson, announced on his YouTube channel Wednesday that he is running to represent Illinois’ 2nd Congressional District in the US House. […] “Like my father before me, I ask for your vote, as a vote for a [...]