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Gale Street is classic Chicago

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Some weekend congressional campaign updates * Another fascinating development in CD9… IL-09: Bushra Amiwala is supported in a new digital ad from AIPAC-backed super PAC Chicago Progressive Partnership. First aired on YouTube yesterday. The PAC has previously attacked Abughazaleh. (Appears to be an attempt to further divide the progressive vote.) pic.twitter.com/aW4n91HW5X — Ryan (@RyanInEvanston) March 14, 2026 Amiwala campaign… We were recently made [...]

Some weekend congressional campaign updates

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I never received a response to this from @carolronen.bsky.social

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Not sure how this happened, but thanks @bsky.app

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Likely Democratic primary voters

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Reader comments closed for the weekend * Selena…

Reader comments closed for the weekend

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Isabel’s afternoon roundup * Subscribers have read a lot about American Future, the DraftKings-backed committee that’s poured more than $2.6 million into statehouse races. They recently hired FM3 Research to poll the US Senate race… NEW IL Senate poll. Close! Taken March 10-12, 678 surveyed, +/-4.0%⁦ pic.twitter.com/HUGZ3bAqKG — Mary Ann Ahern (@MaryAnnAhernNBC) March 13, 2026 Methodology… From March 10-12, 2026, [...]

Isabel’s afternoon roundup

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Catching up with the congressionals * WBEZ digs into the seemingly endless super PAC ‘blitz’ in four congressional primaries… National special-interest groups, which now include deep-pocketed cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence interests, have spent tens of millions of dollars to influence four hotly contested Democratic congressional primaries in the Chicago area. Through Thursday, super PACs whose donors are hard to track had reported [...]

Catching up with the congressionals

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Durbin wanted control of the party

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Big Tech sues over Chicago social media tax a month after Pritzker pitches statewide version * Sun-Times reporter Mitchell Armentrout… A coalition of the world’s largest tech companies is suing to block Chicago’s new tax on social media giants like TikTok, Facebook and X, claiming the city’s first-of-its-kind, per-user levy tramples over the First Amendment rights of major corporations that contend they’re part of the free press. The lawsuit filed Friday in [...]

Big Tech sues over Chicago social media tax a month after Pritzker pitches statewide version

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Indiana’s circular firing squad and what it means for Illinois * From Indiana state Senator Rod Bray’s Wikipedia page… In the 2025–2026 United States redistricting debate, Bray announced that he would not convene the senate chamber even though Governor Mike Braun had called a special session due to a lack of votes. This led to stark criticism from President Donald Trump who called Bray “weak” and [...]

Indiana’s circular firing squad and what it means for Illinois

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It’s just a bill * Capitol News Illinois… A bill that would prevent streaming services from running commercials at a higher volume than the shows and movies people are watching passed through the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee on Thursday. Senate Bill 3222 sponsored by state Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, would allow Illinoisans to lodge official complaints over commercial volume [...]

It’s just a bill

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Chaos Coming July 1: Illinois’ Radical Credit Card Law Could Upend Everyday Purchases [The following is a paid advertisement.] Starting July 1, Illinois families could face chaos when paying for everyday purchases like groceries, gas, or a dinner out because of a new state law that changes how credit cards work. At the checkout line, shoppers may suddenly be told they cannot use their credit cards to pay for [...]

Chaos Coming July 1: Illinois’ Radical Credit Card Law Could Upend Everyday Purchases

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Isabel’s morning briefing * ICYMI: Illinois regulators say prediction markets are illegal gambling, but bettors — and the Trump family — love them. Capitol News Illinois… - The Trump administration has not only promoted prediction markets but vowed to fight state efforts to regulate them as they do online sportsbooks. - On-line sportsbooks businesses must pay millions of dollars in [...]

Isabel’s morning briefing

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Good morning! * Rosali… Paste magazine Your Name: (required) Your Email: (required) Your Website: Your Message: … Lead single “Rewind,” though it elicits flickers of some standstill romantic dissolution, is not informed by heartbreak at all. The “I’ll rewind for you” lyric was actually inspired by Rosali’s dog. “I was walking with her, and I just started singing it to her,” she [...]

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Live coverage “I am a Democrat and I love Chicago and love Illinois. Everything I have worked for – from marriage equality to common sense gun laws to the Obama library, education funding, violence prevention, college scholarships and training for CPS students, our hospitals, our community service organizations, and our cultural assets – it is all because [...]

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Isabel’s afternoon roundup * The New York Times… Days before the primary race ends on Tuesday, Black political leaders in Chicago are growing more frustrated with the efforts to divide the state’s Black voters. “I’m sure that Raja is very happy from the fact that there are these two distinguished Black women who will split the Black vote to [...]

Isabel’s afternoon roundup

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Meh. Always polling drama. It kinda disturbs me, though, that a member of the Democratic Party's state central committee is calling for an "investigation" of a newspaper reporter.

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Investigated by whom?

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Today’s fun read * The Beverly Review’s South Side Irish Parade Guide profiles Sen. Bill Cunningham’s great-grandfather… One of the most interesting, colorful and important early Irish-American Catholics who moved to the Ridge was James Dominic “Yank” Cunningham, who started the commercial district along 111th Street in Mt. Greenwood. […] “The place my great-grandfather opened, like a lot of [...]

Today’s fun read

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Catching up with the federal candidates * Raja’s closing TV ad… Script… [RAJA] Running for office takes thick skin. I get that. But my opponent’s lies about me ignore something you need to know. I’m an immigrant myself. It wasn’t easy, but when things got tough our neighbors had our backs. That’s why stopping Trump and ICE’s attacks on our communities is deeply [...]

Catching up with the federal candidates

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This primary can't be over fast enough, man

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It’s just a bill * Capitol News Illinois… The Senate Pensions Committee advanced a bill that would require local governments to establish a version of the state’s pension buyout program. Senate Bill 3404, sponsored by state Sen. Rob Martwick, D-Chicago, passed on an agreed bill list, though some changes are expected to address concerns from the Illinois Municipal League, Martwick told [...]

It’s just a bill

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