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Reader comments closed for the weekend * Keeping with today’s musical theme of seemingly effortless, totally fun performances, here’s Nancy Wilson and Heart… Wild man’s world is cryin’ in pain What you gonna do when everybody’s insane? So afraid of one who’s so afraid of you What you gonna do?

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06.03.2026 21:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Chaos Coming July 1: Illinois’ Radical Credit Card Law Could Upend Everyday Purchases [The following is a paid advertisement.] Starting July 1, Illinois families could face chaos when paying for everyday purchases like groceries, gas, or a dinner out because of a new state law that changes how credit cards work. At the checkout line, shoppers may suddenly be told they cannot use their credit cards to pay for [...]

Chaos Coming July 1: Illinois’ Radical Credit Card Law Could Upend Everyday Purchases

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Today’s chart * Sun-Times… Three incumbent Cook County commissioners who are seeking another term — including two county board members facing Democratic primary challenges on March 17 — each missed more than 20% of the meetings they were supposed to be at since the beginning of the current term, a WBEZ analysis of county records has found. The station [...]

Today’s chart

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Money, money, money, money… Money * The AI industry is fighting itself in IL02. Anthropic has funded an IE PAC to support candidates who support some AI regulation. They’re spending almost a million bucks against Jesse Jackson, Jr. probably because he’s backed by the AI industry… NEW FEC F24JOBS AND DEMOCRACY PAC$999,908-> #IL02https://t.co/lm6mWuVHBd pic.twitter.com/d16g0FKUi1 — CATargetBot0001 (@CATargetBot0001) March 6, 2026 [...]

Money, money, money, money… Money

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Ex-ComEd lobbyist John Hooker, 77, has been released to a halfway house in Chicago after serving about 5 months of his 18-month sentence in federal prison.
He's the first of the "ComEd Four" to be released.
background: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/j...

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Question of the day * Pew Research Center… 53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics Americans are more likely than people in other countries surveyed in 2025 to question the morality of their fellow countrymen, according to Pew Research Center surveys in 25 countries. We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others [...]

Question of the day

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It’s just a bill * Synopsis from HB4294, introduced by Republican state Rep. Kyle Moore… Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Increases the amount transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Local Government Distributive Fund. Effective immediately. From the House Republicans… House Republicans are pushing back against Governor Pritzker’s proposals by advancing legislation such as Rep. [...]

It’s just a bill

06.03.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Shenanigans? Heidner campaign sent political solicitation letter to mayor’s taxpayer-funded office * Homer Glen Mayor Christina Neitzke-Troike is Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Heidner’s running mate. The Heidner campaign sent this letter to at least one mayor at his official municipal office. Click the pic for a larger image… The letter’s conclusion… I’m building a Mayors’ Coalition of local leaders who are ready for a state [...]

Shenanigans? Heidner campaign sent political solicitation letter to mayor’s taxpayer-funded office

06.03.2026 16:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Isabel’s morning briefing * ICYMI: Chicago appeals court vacates judge’s use-of-force injunction on immigration agents. Tribune… - A Chicago federal appeals court on Thursday vacated a lower court’s injunction placing use-of-force restrictions on immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz, calling it “constitutionally suspect” and questioning the manner in which the district judge dismissed the underlying suit. - But the 7th [...]

Isabel’s morning briefing

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Good morning! * I’m going with something a little different today. Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu at the Exhibition Gala… * CNN… Perhaps the only thing more astounding than a 16-year-old quitting at the prime of her career is a woman who took three years off returning as if no time had passed. Yet in some ways, Liu’s triumphant [...]

Good morning!

06.03.2026 12:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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06.03.2026 12:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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Cursory look shows that unsurprisingly, her top expense was media buys at $1.25mm, 77% of her total. Literally all of it was spent by Jan. 23, in line with my reporting on her TV ads ending at the end of Jan *just* before Elect Chicago Women started buying ads supporting her at the start of Feb.

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Isabel’s afternoon roundup * Subscribers have been in the know about this DraftKings-backed PAC for weeks. In These Times… Last September the sports betting duopoly DraftKings and FanDuel ran into a brick wall in Illinois. Once the state started assessing a $0.25 trade tax on every bet, sports betting “plummeted” in the state by 15% year over year. The [...]

Isabel’s afternoon roundup

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Raja poll shows 10-point lead on Stratton; Kim and Kifowit launch new comptroller ads; Kaegi and Hynes clash over ‘homeowner’ claim * Raja Krishnamoorthi’s US Senate campaign has released a new poll with himself 10 percentage points ahead of Lt. Gov Juliana Stratton… Methodology… Polling was conducted online from March 3-5, 2026. Drawn from a list of past Democratic primary voters and using Dynamic Online Sampling and SMS text messaging to attain a representative sample, Change Research polled [...]

Raja poll shows 10-point lead on Stratton; Kim and Kifowit launch new comptroller ads; Kaegi and Hynes clash over ‘homeowner’ claim

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HB 3799 Raises Premiums And Destabilizes A Stable Insurance Market [The following is a paid advertisement.] Illinois’ competitive system protects consumers and keeps carriers investing here—let’s not break what works. Independent research shows slow, uncertain rate reviews push insurers out and costs up. HB 3799 was already defeated in Veto Session—keep it that way. Vote NO. Protect affordability. Vote NO on HB 3799.

HB 3799 Raises Premiums And Destabilizes A Stable Insurance Market