Who’s in charge here? The heavy hitters in our Power 50 know how to use their influence to make things happen in Chicago and beyond.
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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.
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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.”
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“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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Employees of the speaker’s office in the Illinois legislature may soon get the opportunity to unionize.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In a call with reporters Wednesday, the governor said he is actively pursuing Illinois partnerships with electric vehicle companies and original equipment manufacturers.
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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.
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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.
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