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MANAGEMENT COURSE: Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch is bringing together his leadership team today to discuss “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek — a book about achieving success through teamwork.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, briefed on the Related Midwest plan, told the Sun-Times “pretty pictures” building public interest are not enough. “If they’re trying to do something in this legislative session, they need to start educating and informing people relatively soon.”
“Final steps in the organization of a Rotary club for Maywood were taken last night by a group of representative business men, headed by Edward A. Cogley, thus making this community a part of Rotary International which during the past nineteen years has established itself for the development of the idea of practical service in more than sixteen hundred cities in twenty-eight countries,” reads the first paragraph in a Maywood Herald article from Feb. 29, 1924.
CHICAGO — Illinois Speaker of the House Emanuel “Chris” Welch with new details about the stadium searches for White Sox and Bears as well as the migrant crisis. WGN-TV spoke to him Tuesday morning before the House gaveled in.
Eddie Mae Stegall, affectionately known as Mother Stegall, may have thought she was at Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch’s district offices at 1005 Roosevelt Rd. in Westchester on Jan. 23 to give her thoughts on his performance in office so far.
“I see you on the TV — you’re looking good,” Stegall told Welch during small talk before Welch told her why she was there.
“I was hoping I could bring you to Springfield, but it’s so far and such a long drive that I figured it would be easier to do it here,” Welch said. “This is a very special and long-overdue recognition of you for all the work you’ve done in this community.”
Senior citizens from across the state have a new reason to visit Westchester now that there’s a senior-only DMV in the Village Hall’s Community Room.
The new senior-only site, where the elderly can do things like renew their driver’s licenses and get Real ID’s, all without an appointment, is just the third in the state behind pilot locations that opened last month in Evanston and Bridgeview.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The speaker of the Illinois House on Wednesday won approval for allowing legislative staff to organize for collective bargaining, overcoming Republican objections about whether it’s necessary.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois House approved a plan Wednesday to allow legislative staff to unionize and collectively bargain for livable wages and reasonable hours among other priorities.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch says he wants the state’s legislative staff to be allowed to unionize. The Democrat authored a bill he says would allow that last week, even though it’s unusual for the house speaker to write their own legislation.
SPRINGFIELD – House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, has filed legislation that would, for the first time in Illinois, authorize legislative staff to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.
Employees of the speaker’s office in the Illinois legislature may soon get the opportunity to unionize.
House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, has filed legislation that would, for the first time in Illinois, authorize legislative staff to form a union and engage in collective bargaining.
Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch has filed a bill that would allow House and Senate legislative staffers the ability to unionize. It’s an extraordinary move given the House speaker isn’t usually one to carry his own legislation.
SPRINGFIELD — Nearly a year after legislative staff in House Speaker Chris Welch's office privately declared their intent to unionize, there finally appears to be a path forward into the unchartered waters.
In a call with reporters Wednesday, the governor said he is actively pursuing Illinois partnerships with electric vehicle companies and original equipment manufacturers.
The landmark decision clears the way for unprecedented criminal justice reform. Here’s how politicians, prosecutors and advocates responded.
Last Wednesday, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a $50.4 billion budget for the coming fiscal year after lawmakers missed a self-imposed deadline and were forced to return to the statehouse after Memorial Day.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — After being unanimously passed by Democrats with no Republican support, Governor JB Pritzker signed the bill containing the fiscal year budget for 2024 into law Wednesday.
The governor’s office said line-item reductions of $192,700 were made after a review found that cost-of-living pay raises granted to constitutional officers, legislators and some appointed officials exceeded 5%, which they said was unconstitutional.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Governor JB Pritzker signed the state budget into law in Chicago Wednesday.
The spending package is the largest budget in state history, over $50 billion. It includes major boosts for education, and health care and childcare. It also invests in law enforcement and measures meant to help the homeless.
It will be up to Gov. J.B. Pritzker to slice in half spending on health care for undocumented immigrants, and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said he’s confident the governor can do it.
Minority representation among executives at Chicago’s 50 largest public companies has increased over the past 10 years, with local numbers ahead of national statistics, according to advocacy organization Chicago United.
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker and Democratic leaders announced Wednesday they’ve agreed to a framework for next year’s roughly $50 billion state spending plan, even as negotiations continued in the final stretch of lawmakers’ already-extended spring legislative session.
Today, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Senior Advisor to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and Ambassador Susan Rice, Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor, met with the historic five Black Speakers of the House from state legislatures across the country: Speaker Chris Welch of Illinois, Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross of Maine, Speaker Adrienne Jones of Maryland, Speaker Joe Tate of Michigan, and Speaker Carl Heastie of New York.
The speakers from the states of New York, Maryland, Illinois, Maine and Michigan will meet with Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice and others to discuss “common policy priorities."
Illinois’ leadership has shifted, with a fresh group of 177 lawmakers sworn in to office on Wednesday.
The 103rd General Assembly has more Asian Americans, the first Muslim member in 23-year-old state Rep. Nabeela Syed, D-Inverness, and a record number of Democratic House members, led by Illinois’ first Black House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch.
SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) - The 103rd General Assembly is officially underway as Illinois state lawmakers were sworn in Wednesday afternoon. Gov. JB Pritzker presided over the Senate inauguration and Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias led the House ceremony.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois’ new Legislature got underway Wednesday with pledges of selflessness laden with the symbolism of America’s Civil War president, the wisdom of a recently departed mother and a young son and the Hebrew word that Moses used to answer God’s call to lead the Exodus.