The campaign committee of Democratic Party candidate Sean Casten, Casten for Congress, received $2,800 from Leo Albert Smith on June 29, according to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
State Rep. Terra Costa Howard, D-Glen Ellyn, is urging local business owners who have suffered economic losses due to COVID-19 to apply now for the first round of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s (DCEO) new Business Interruption Grant (BIG).
State Sen. Jim Oberweis finds Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s response to pleas for him to delay the statewide minimum wage increase set to kick in on July 1 all too predictable.
To provide input on plans to restore the state’s economy after the COVID-19 crisis, State Senator Laura Murphy (D-Des Plaines) has been appointed co-chair of the bipartisan, bicameral Restore Illinois Collaborative Commission, the group charged with navigating the public health and economic concerns of the state’s reopening plan.