Republicans Don Tracy, Casey Chlebek and Pamela Denise Long participated in a candidate forum broadcast Thursday on WTVP and presented by the League of Women Voters of Greater Peoria and the League of Women Voters of Illinois.

The panel was created to document incidents and the impact of immigration enforcement during Operation Midway Blitz.

Ryan Croke visits to share his personal passion and explain the March 17, referendum to create and fund a Sangamon County Mental Health Board to improve the connectivity between existing services.

Some express concern the state can’t offset federal funding cuts.

The event is free and open. Registration is required.

Gov. JB Pritzker presented his spending plan to lawmakers this week. We discuss the package and the reaction to it.

Illinois lawmakers were caught off guard by the team’s embrace of Indiana effort

In Illinois, six grant awards to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Illinois-Chicago that are collectively worth over $20 million — which Raoul said are to “make the electricity grid more reliable and resilient, reduce carbon emissions, and utilize domestic sources of rare earth elements and critical minerals” — were on the chopping block.

This year’s address was marked by minimal discretionary growth, rising federal tensions and over twenty references to the power of love.

Gov. JB Pritzker spoke before a join session of the Illinois General Assembly Wednesday Feb. 18, 2026.