State Sen. Terry Link resigns, dealing with federal tax fee

Ending a 24-year legislative profession, state Sen Terry Link introduced his resignation on Friday, just about a month after being hit with a federal tax fee. The Vernon Hills Democrat’s resignation is going into impact at nine a.m. Saturday. In August, Link was once charged in federal courtroom with submitting a false source of revenue tax go back for the yr 2016, claiming his source of revenue was once $264,450 even if he knew his general source of revenue “substantially exceeded that amount.” Link may just now not be reached for remark Friday. State Senate President Don Harmon issued a terse remark, pronouncing best “I look forward to welcoming and working with a new senator from Lake County. We’ve got

Democratic conference: Sen. Tammy Duckworth keynotes

Sen. Tammy Duckworth delivers a keynote deal with on the Democratic National Convention on Thursday evening, talking prior to Joe Biden accepts the Democratic presidential nomination. Duckworth used to be on Biden’s shortlist to be his vice presidential pick out. At the 2008 Democratic conference, Duckworth offered Biden’s overdue son Beau prior to he spoke. On the Illinois entrance, the Democratic Party of Illinois can have a press briefing. The members are Mary Morrissey, govt director, Democratic Party of Illinois; Rep. Danny Davis; and Arielle Maffei, president, Young Democrats of Illinois. Thursday is the closing day of the conference and the general Illinois delegation assembly working from 6:30 to eight p.m, wrapping up when the conference consultation begins. Among Thursday’s audio

Sen. Durbin rejects GOP witness swap feelers as Trump

WASHINGTON — Before the protection wraps up Tuesday in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the quantity two Democrat within the Senate, dismissed solutions by GOP senators for witness swaps, with the primary John Bolton for Hunter Biden. “We’re not trading baseball cards,” Durbin stated on CNN. “We’re not youngsters sitting round right here selecting our favorites and placing them in the course of the circle. What we’re speaking about are related materials witnesses. “… This concept of bargaining, properly, we’ll provide you with one irrelevant witness for one materials witness. Baloney. These ought to be materials witnesses. And we now have stated we wish the chief justice to be the