Category: TMA Advocacy

TMA visits with Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson

ELK GROVE VILLAGE – In Chicago’s western suburbs near O’Hare Airport is a village that boasts about its world-class data center and nationally-renowned manufacturing park.

TMA’s Advocacy Team visited with Mayor Craig Johnson, who shared some of the village’s insights and rationale for catering to businesses.

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TMA Advocacy Update for February 24, 2025

BEYOND PRITZKER’S NAZI COMMENTS….

Yes, Gov. Pritzker compared the Trump Administration to Nazis in his Budget Address. That red meat played well with the national media and “far-left.” But that certainly wasn’t the focus for progressives under the Capitol Dome in Springfield after the governor’s speech….

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TMA Advocacy Update for February 10, 2025

A House lawmaker said something interesting to me last year. He said when he arrived as a new lawmaker, he thought there would be huge coordination in Springfield among supermajority Democrats in each chamber and a Democrat Governor. After a while, he said, “I looked behind the curtain and there was no one there.” He was shocked there was no grand wizard planning in a coordinated way.

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