Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com

Dan Petrella

chicagotribune.com

Chicago, IL, United States

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Past:
  • chicagotribune.com
  • The Pantagraph
  • SJ-R Breaking News
  • Sauk Valley Media
  • heraldandreview

Past articles by Daniel:

Highland Park, a year later: Use of state’s ‘red flag’ gun laws jumps in wake of parade killings

A Tribune analysis of available state data shows that in the year since the Highland Park mass shooting, there has been greater use of state laws intended to prevent people with troubled backgrounds from having firearms. → Read More

Gov. J.B. Pritzker defends cuts to immigrant health care program as cost to Cook County remains uncertain

Gov. J.B. Pritkzer defended himself against rebukes from Latino elected officials and others critics over his decision to close enrollment for many people in a health care program for undocumented immigrants. → Read More

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs $50.4 billion state budget but vetoes legislators’ pay hike that exceeded state limit

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a $50.4 billion state budget that boosts funding for education from preschool through college, but was also forced to to dial back pay raises for lawmakers and other state officials so that the hikes comply with state law. → Read More

Illinois House Democrats acknowledge ‘it isn’t easy to come together’ before early morning vote sending $50.6 billion state budget to Gov. J.B. Pritzker

After a budget process that went into overtime amid differences over spending priorities among Democrats, Illinois House gives final approval to $50.6 billion budget. → Read More

Legislature OKs bill aimed at curbing political corruption tied to red-light camera industry

Illinois lawmakers, under pressure to act on ethics reform, unanimously passed a measure seeking to curb abuses tied to the right light camera industry. → Read More

Illinois Senate poised to vote on budget amid process slowed by Democratic differences over spending

The Illinois Senate was poised for a vote late Thursday on a $50.6 billion state spending plan that was an altered version of what Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state legislature’s Democratic leaders presented as a done deal a day earlier. → Read More

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Democratic legislative leaders reach deal on $50 billion budget

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the leaders of the Illinois legislature announced that they have reached a deal on a roughly $50 billion state budget, → Read More

Democrats fail to come together on budget as pressures build over spending, shaky economy

The failure of the Illinois legislature to enact a budget by its self-appointed deadline points to stresses within the state’s one-party, big-tent Democratic rule. → Read More

Democratic dissension over spending priorities to push state budget talks past deadline

The spiraling costs of a Medicaid-style healthcare program for immigrants is posing a significant roadblock to finalizing a state budget in Illinois, where lawmakers will miss a self-imposed Friday deadline. → Read More

U.S. Supreme Court denies request to block Illinois and Naperville gun bans

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a request from a Naperville gun store owner to block a city ordinance and and Illinois law banning the sale of certain high-powered firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines. → Read More

Budget, Bears, Chicago school board and ethics: Illinois legislators face busy agenda in spring session’s final week

The Illinois General Assembly heads into the final scheduled week of its spring session facing unresolved issues from the budget to a proposal to help the Chicago Bears move to the suburbs. → Read More

Illinois legislators take another stab at Bears stadium legislation, with just a week to go in session

With a week to go in the spring legislative session, another bill aimed at helping the Bears move to Arlington Heights has been filed in Springfield. → Read More

The COVID-19 public health emergency ends today. Here’s what it means for Illinois residents.

State and federal governments are changing requirements related to the illness → Read More

GOP lawmakers say lack of guidance from attorney general puts gun buyers in legal jeopardy

A group of Republican state lawmakers say a lack of guidance from the Illinois attorney general’s office after a federal judge put a hold hold on the state's gun ban has left some residents in legal jeopardy. → Read More

Ballooning cost of insuring undocumented immigrants complicating state budget negotiations

The financial pressure is exposing tensions between Democrats’ open-arms stance on immigration and the limited resources available in a state that has only recently begun to stabilize its chronically shaky finances. → Read More

Illinois ban on high-powered firearms blocked by federal judge downstate; Gov. Pritzker’s office ‘confident’ law will be upheld

The ruling comes just days after a counterpart in Chicago upheld the ban on many higher-powered firearms and large-capacity magazines. → Read More

Latest Bears stadium legislation would add $3 to ticket prices at Arlington Heights site to help pay off Soldier Field debt

Tickets to games and events at the Chicago Bears’ proposed Arlington Heights development would come with a $3-per-person tax under new legislation that seeks to jump-start stalled talks over state assistance for the project. → Read More

City told to reinstate employees fired over COVID-19 vaccination requirement

Chicago must reinstate city employees who were fired for refusing to comply with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and rescind the requirement, a state administrative law judge has ruled. → Read More

School board elections see general pushback against conservatives, though not everywhere

Conservative slates appeared to be defeated in Oswego, Barrington and elsewhere but some candidates in other suburbs scored victories. → Read More

Conservatives are targeting suburban school boards. And the elections are becoming political battlegrounds.

School boards have become targets of both the ire and political ambitions of conservatives arguing schools have been overtaken by liberal agendas. → Read More