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Sponsors said renters shouldn't be surprised by charges included in their rent, such as fees for after-hours service requests, renewing a lease, or routine maintenance. The bill states that all non-optional fees should be explicitly disclosed on the first page of a lease agreement. Tenants would not be liable to pay fees if they are not shown on the first page of a lease.

“I ordered that audit. I reviewed that audit as a member of the audit commission. It's one of the worst in the state history,” Rep. Charlie Meier said of the state’s Department of Human Services. “Faculty failures, personnel failures, lack of reporting, no oversight. You name it. It's in there. Gov. Pritzker and his leadership at DHS has been a total failure.”

The works are meant to build context around some of the 41 monuments deemed problematic by a city commission. Hector Gonzalez created "Tierra Nuestra" (Our Land), featuring a young man of mixed Mexican and Native-American heritage standing on a horse with a boom box on his arm in front of the current "Signal of Peace" monument at Diversey and the lake.

State Rep. Ryan Spain said now the revenue from the tax is being moved from downstate to Chicago transit. He added the bill can work with the budget because Chicago did not need as much money as they received. “This sales tax that I'm speaking about was promised as a delivery into the Road Fund,” Spain said. “Those dollars have now been rescinded and transferred beginning on July one to fund Chicago land transit.”