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The bill reads that "a student who is an Illinois resident and who is not otherwise eligible for federal financial aid, including, but not limited to, a transgender student who is disqualified for failure to register for selective service or a noncitizen student who has not obtained lawful permanent residence, shall be eligible for financial aid and benefits."

Inaugural podcast from Chicago Contrarian featuring Paul Vallas, Jim Bosco, Matt Podgorski, Florian Sohnke and Jeff Fiedler: Chicago faces a "perfect storm" of financial problems.

The governor issued a veto late Friday on a three-page bill that would have allowed State Treasurer Michael Frerichs to create an investment pool for nonprofits and labor organizations. The treasurer would then be able to invest it in the same way he invests state treasury funds. In vetoing it, Pritzker said he had concerns extremist groups with nonprofit arms could also benefit from the pool.

"As a law abiding gun owner, I look at this and I say we have to do everything possible to keep gun violence from happening," state Rep. CD Davidsmeyer said. "I don't want to take any threats of violence lightly. If we can help to ensure these horrific incidents no longer happen, our gun rights will not be under constant attack by anti-gun politicians."

The American Tort Reform Association labeled Illinois a “Lawsuit Inferno” when the General Assembly passed SB 328 in May. “Take an industry like ours where most trucking companies who operate, especially in the Midwest and honestly a lot of trucking companies across the country, they do operate at some point in Illinois, and now, every single one of those companies is now exposed, and now every one of them could find themselves the target of another frivolous lawsuit,” said Matthew Hart, of the Illinois Trucking Association.