With the COVID-19 pandemic and Stay Home Order affecting families and businesses across Illinois, State Representative Grant Wehrli is seeking ideas on how Illinois can restart its economy and get Illinois people working again.
Illinois StaCOVID-19 and the associated Stay Home Orders, have created a crisis like nothing we’ve ever seen or experienced in Illinois.
Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES), which handles unemployment claims for the state, reported that more than one million Illinoisans have lost their jobs since March 1.
House Republicans have been asking for weeks that the General Assembly reconvene so our voices can be part of the COVID-19 response discussion.
Illinois Democrats pushed through a partisan, unbalanced budget for Fiscal Year 2021 that increases spending by 6.8%.
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) has developed a free tool kit to help employers implement the Governor’s Restore Illinois Phase 3, Guidelines for Safely Reopening Businesses.
I am shocked and saddened by the violence that has erupted in Illinois communities and across our country in the wake of yet another instance of police brutality against a black man.
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Legislative News from State Rep. Grant Wehrli - June 17, 2020 As America continues to respond to acts of senseless violence against people of cololastr, I am participating in a variety of meetings and discussions about how lawmakers can help promulgate change within our criminal justice system and promote equality.
The Illinois State Board of Education and Department of Public Health have announced guidelines for Illinois schools to safely return to in-person Instruction as the state advances to Phase 4 of the Governor’s Restore Illinois plan.
Lawmakers considered a mixed bag of legislation during our four-day session in May. Some measures, like legislation that provides for the automatic rollover of certain property taxpayer exemptions (senior, senior assessment freeze, disabled, etc.)
Based on a scathing compliance audit of the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) that was released on July 7, State Representative Grant Wehrli (R-Naperville) is renewing his call for a deep, independent audit of an agency he claims has failed Illinoisans at every turn during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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State Representative Grant Wehrli is alerting Illinoisans to a new online scam involving people trying to pass themselves off as COVID-19 contact tracers.
Illinois State Representatives Grant Wehrli (R-Naperville), Deanne Mazzochi (R-Elmhurst), and Dan Ugaste (R-Geneva) held a video press conference on Tuesday to demand Governor JB Pritzker call the General Assembly into special session to pass badly needed ethics reforms.
Calling Speaker of the House Mike Madigan’s breach of the public trust “despicable and irreparable,” State Representative Grant Wehrli (R-Naperville) on Thursday co-sponsored legislation that seeks to officially strip Madigan of the title he has held for 35 of the last 37 years.