Tina Sfondeles

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Tina Sfondeles |Mitchell Armentrout

WASHINGTON — With the backdrop of federal immigration raids and protests in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker sparred with Republican legislators Thursday, telling House Oversight committee members Thursday that Illinois isn’t a place for violent criminals who lack legal status — and it will not tolerate “abuses of power.”The Democratic governor also staunchly defended the state’s TRUST Act, which was signed by his predecessor, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.

2 weeks ago | nprillinois.org | Tina Sfondeles |Mitchell Armentrout

WASHINGTON — With the backdrop of federal immigration raids and protests in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker sparred with Republican legislators Thursday, telling House Oversight committee members Thursday that Illinois isn’t a place for violent criminals who lack legal status — and it will not tolerate “abuses of power.”The Democratic governor also staunchly defended the state’s TRUST Act, which was signed by his predecessor, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Tina Sfondeles |Mitchell Armentrout

WASHINGTON — With the backdrop of federal immigration raids and protests in Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker told House Oversight committee members Thursday that Illinois isn’t a place for violent criminals who lack legal status — and it will not tolerate “violations of the law or abuses of power.”The Democratic governor also staunchly defended the state’s TRUST Act, which was signed by his predecessor, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.

3 weeks ago | nprillinois.org | Tina Sfondeles

President Donald Trump’s request to claw back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting has public media bracing for one of the most serious threats it has ever faced. Trump on Tuesday formally asked Congress to cut money that had been set aside for public broadcasting for the next two years. The “rescission request” jumpstarted a 45-day clock for lawmakers to approve such a request — and with a simple majority needed to approve the slash, there is little room for Republicans to dissent. Sen.

4 weeks ago | wbez.org | Frank Main |Tina Sfondeles |Jon Seidel

The quest to free Chicago drug kingpin Larry Hoover included a stop at Mar-a-Lago. A New York lawyer advocating for Hoover said he spoke with President Donald Trump several months ago at the resort where he lives in Palm Beach, Florida. It was among a series of high-profile meetings between Hoover’s lawyers and Trump and his top aides since 2018. On Wednesday, their years-long advocacy paid off with Trump commuting Hoover’s federal sentence of life in prison on a drug conspiracy conviction.