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Dozens of activists showed up at a rally calling for a written agreement to protect local homeowners from being displaced by higher property taxes once the $500 million Obama Presidential Center is complete.
A state House committee plans a hearing to consider questions surrounding the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.
All 500 wristbands available, which are required for entry to the event, sold out Sunday.
A tally from the Congressional Research Service said the previous record of 85 representatives served in the 114th Congress, including two members who resigned and one who was elected to fill a vacancy.
Illinois' bill payment backlog stands at $7.5 billion, and there is an estimated $1 billion shortfall in the current state budget.
"The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks," Michelle Obama writes in her memoir, "Becoming."
"It's been increasingly more diverse. It's a district Hillary Clinton won by 20 points."
Numerous people who have worked on Porter County elections for the past few decades have said Tuesday's election was the worst they have ever seen.
Nearly two-thirds of voters in Illinois disapproved of the Republican's handling of a two-year budget stalemate with legislative Democrats, and about three-quarters of them voted for Pritzker.
Police Supt. Eddie Johnson has asked the Chicago Police Board to fire Officer Robert Rialmo for the 2015 shooting that killed Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones.
Based on unofficial results, Evers won by about 31,000 votes.
President Trump tweeted Wednesday afternoon that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned. Matthew G. Whitaker, Sessions' chief of staff, will become acting attorney general.
Democrat Tony Evers will oust Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker from office, denying the Republican a third term and accomplishing something Democrats have long looked to achieve.
Two first-time Democratic candidates eked out victories in suburban congressional races on Tuesday, in districts that normally vote Republican, helping Democrats take control of the House.
