By MELISSA CROCKETT MESKE IBJ Managing Editor [email protected] In the late afternoon on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker took to the podium to address recent actions taken by President Donald Trump and his administration. Gov. Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul both on…
From CUB Executive Director Sarah Moskowitz: “CUB will challenge Ameren’s Illinois’ proposed gas rate hike. Ameren has already won $111 million in gas rate hikes since 2021, helping to plunge too many consumers across Illinois into crisis while the utility’s parent company rolls in profits. And now the utility wants more. This punishing increase–which calls…
By MELISSA CROCKETT MESKE The Illinois Business Journal will turn 25 in the last quarter of 2025. For the past quarter century, a readership of somewhere around 20,000 or more businesses, industries and nonprofits have been reading our print editions from cover to cover each month when they arrived in the mail. Many have supported…
By DENNIS GRUBAUGH If you rode political 2024 to conclusion, you can be excused for feeling a little punch-drunk. What a long, strange trip it was. Nothing in our lives prepared us for the past year, the presidential election, assassination attempts, the continued debate over who really won the LAST election, the conviction of the…
By GARTH REYNOLDS, BSPharm, RPh, MBA, FAPhA Executive Director, Illinois Pharmacists Association The pharmacy profession is under siege. Community pharmacies (independent and chain) are closing at an alarming rate, leaving countless communities without access to essential medications and care. The culprits behind this crisis are pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), whose opaque and predatory practices are…
The 2024 election delivered a powerful message to the D.C. swamp: the voters were fed up with leaders who ignored their struggles. They handed President Trump and Republican majorities in both houses of Congress a mandate for change. From factory floors and family farms to Main Streets and mom-and-pop shops, working Americans rejected the status…