Greg Hinz
Political Writer and Blogger at Crain's Chicago Business
political writer and blogger for Crain's Chicago Business
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1 day ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Greg Hinz
Portraying himself as a proven champion for the middle class at a time when voters need a fighter, Gov. JB Pritzker today made it official: He will seek election to a third term as Illinois’ chief executive in the 2026 elections. And in a video and a statement released this morning, the Chicago Democrat clearly hinted he’s also eyeing an even bigger job that will be up in 2028: president of the United States. “We don’t just talk about problems.
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1 week ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Greg Hinz
“Of course” it’s fair to say he’s considering running for president, declared Rahm Emanuel, hands for the moment neither waving nor pointing but resting on the table. “I’m looking at the (Democratic) field and, most importantly, what I have to contribute.”What he has to contribute is an acute, almost painful diagnosis of what’s going wrong with a national Democratic Party that, in his view has lost touch with its middle-class roots amid a fixation on political correctness.
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1 week ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Greg Hinz
You didn’t have to go far to find “No Kings” protests this past weekend. In my case, it was just down the block where a crowd of 400 or 500 on a warm and sunny afternoon roundly roasted the policies of President Donald Trump, particularly his increasingly bold moves to boot immigrants from the country, some of them here illegally, some not. The next day, you didn’t have to go any farther than suburban Broadview to see those policies at work.
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2 weeks ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Greg Hinz
Remarkable things can be accomplished if you spend your own money, rather than waiting for a government handout. That’s the message from Morningstar founder Joe Mansueto’s announcement that he’ll spend $650 million on a plan to build a new, 25,000-seat stadium for his Chicago Fire soccer club on The 78 property in the South Loop. Are George McCaskey and Jerry Reinsdorf listening? How about Mayor Brandon Johnson?
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3 weeks ago |
chicagobusiness.com | Greg Hinz
To call it a train wreck would be an exaggeration. After all, the Illinois General Assembly was able to approve a $55.2 billion fiscal 2026 budget, even if it included $1 billion in new taxes and a series of one-time revenue sources. But in failing to enact reforms and new funds for critical public transportation and dangling the possibility of even bigger tax hikes on business and consumers to come, state lawmakers earned no better than an incomplete mark for their just-concluded spring session.
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Incomplete; that's the grade Illinois lawmakers get after a spring session that failed to pass lots of key stuff, including @CTA reform and refunding, and energy plan needed to protect our economy. Will @GovPritzker step up to the plate? https://t.co/mnAo1aIfXY
.@CTA's Red Line South fiasco proves the need for true transit reform in pending Springfield rescue package. We gotta do better than $1.1B a mile. https://t.co/BVtCCJMYfM
How much is too much? As cost of @CTAs Red Line South extension soars to near $6B -- a billion bucks a mile -- new questions about whether there's a cheaper way to serve the southland without crippling cash-short CTA with big debt. https://t.co/KPDEfN6bMq