Chicago Sun-Times - All | Bills for AI, data centers, energy and gaming are circling the drain in Springfield by Rich Miller
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Bills on artificial intelligence, data centers, energy and gaming are languishing in the Illinois Capitol as the spring legislative session nears its May 31 adjournment. The AI proposals in both chambers appear engineered to pass only one house, and growing partisan and procedural rifts—exacerbated by a leaked Senate staff email and disputes over a megaprojects bill that includes a new Bears stadium—have stalled progress. Governor JB Pritzker’s call for a two‑year moratorium on state tax breaks for data centers has run into union criticism and local officials who crave the property‑tax revenue without accompanying service costs, while a narrow transparency measure is the only likely outcome; similar gridlock affects the governor’s housing‑zoning proposal and pending energy‑ and gaming‑related bills. Meanwhile, revised revenue forecasts from the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget and the legislative forecasting commission show a near‑zero growth outlook for the next fiscal year, indicating a “maintenance” budget unless new taxes on wealthy individuals or corporations are enacted.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week on President Trump’s push to strip temporary protected status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians living in the United States. The TPS program grants protection from deportation and work authorization to immigrants whose home countries are deemed unsafe to return to, most often because of war or natural disaster. The case could ultimately have ramifications for more than 1 million TPS holders from over a dozen countries. TPS holders from Haiti and Syria say their countries remain unsafe and that DHS did not follow proper procedure. The lawsuit brought by Haitian TPS holders also accuses the administration of being motivated by racism — an allegation supported by a lower court ruling in February. “Haiti is still in bad shape, and [TPS holders] cannot return there. So, you can imagine now the uncertainty that they live with on a daily basis,” says Vilès Dorsainvil, a plaintiff in Trump v. Miot, the case brought by Haitian TPS holders. Dorsainvil is the co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio. President Trump targeted the Haitian community in Springfield in 2024, falsely saying Haitian residents were eating pet dogs and cats. “We’ve been scapegoated as a community,” says Dorsainvil.
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