| | | | |  | | By Shia Kapos | | Presented by |  | | | TGIF, Illinois. To all those who celebrate, may your red eggs be strong.
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Gov. JB Pritzker announces expansion plans at Rivian in Normal, Ill., on Thursday, May 2, 2024. | State of Illinois video | DRIVER’S ED: Gov. JB Pritzker gave a subtle lesson in deal-making Thursday when he announced a billion-dollar-plus corporate investment in Illinois. He gushed: “I’m so proud,” and “It’s so exciting.” Funny thing: Pritzker wasn’t talking about the Chicago Bears looking for state support to build a new stadium in Chicago. He was referring to Rivian, the electric vehicle manufacturer that’s located in Normal and is expanding with state incentives. The company was going to build in Georgia but decided to expand in Illinois instead. So what gives? The governor’s office declined to comment, but here’s what we can see. Rivian has been talking about this expansion plan with dozens of state officials and the governor for months. The company enlisted the support of the Department of Economic Development to come up with a plan that works for everyone. Numerous political players joined Pritzker for the announcement because they had helped hash out the details. The difference: Rivian was able to show long-term job creation (550 additional jobs to the 8,000 workers already in the Bloomington-Normal area). The Bears will create jobs, too, but they are mostly temporary to build the stadium. And we haven’t heard yet how many jobs might be created for a stadium that operates year-round. The message to the Bears: Focus on the specifics of job reaction and spend more time talking to the people who can make deals happen, including the governor. There’s still time, right? The details: Rivian gets $827M boost from Illinois to expand its factory in the state, by MarketWatch’s Claudia Assis Rivian will add over 500 jobs to make new SUV, by Crain’s John Pletz
| | THE BUZZ | | BIDEN COMING TO TOWN: President Joe Biden will visit Chicago on Wednesday for a campaign event, and Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to visit the northern suburbs May 25.That was the news Thursday from a meeting in Chicago of Biden-Harris Midwest Finance Committee. The group gathered Thursday at the Clayco construction offices owned by Bob Clark. We wrote about him here. On the agenda: Guest speakers Sheila Nix, the chief of staff to VP Kamala Harris; Sam Cornale, the Democratic National Committee executive director; and Biden Campaign Finance Director Michael Pratt walked the key donors through the campaign's approach for the next seven months. After the lengthy presentation, “a lively Q&A session highlighted some of the broader challenges facing Democrats internally today,” we heard from someone in the room. Nix told Playbook: “We just explained how we are going to win and how everyone can help.” In the room: SPAAN Tech CEO Smita Shah, Ariel Investments’ John Rogers Jr. and John Oxtoby, attorney and former ambassador Andrew Schapiro, computer scientist Tamar Newberger (the Midwest Finance co-chair), Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs’ Marcia Balonick, government consultant Reyahd Kazmi, public affairs guru Ami Copeland, political bundler and nonprofit adviser Kevin Conlon, political adviser Nancy Kohn and attorneys Jonathan Bunge, Lauren Rosenthal and David Solow. Biden’s visit: Wednesday’s fundraiser will be hosted by Clark. If you are Sam Cornale, Playbook would like to hear from you. Email skapos@politico.com
| | | | A message from Uber: Drivers with Uber are leading EV adoption. Key fact to know this Earth Month: Drivers with Uber are switching to electric cars seven times faster than everyday drivers. That progress has multiplier impact because when one Uber driver starts using an EV, they deliver up to four times the emissions benefits compared to regular motorists. Learn more about this trend. | | | | | WHERE'S JB | | No official public events.
| | | WHERE's BRANDON | | | At Chicago Police HQ at 9 a.m. with State's Attorney Kim Foxx and CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling.
| | | Where's Toni | | | No official public events. Have a tip, suggestion, birthday, new job or (heaven forbid) a complaint? Email skapos@politico.com
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| | THE STATEWIDES | | — Democratic-run General Assembly passes election bill that would favor Democrats in November: “Under the measure, local political party organizations could no longer appoint candidates to fill out legislative ballots where the party did not field a primary candidate. Current law allows the appointment process within 75 days of the primary,” by the Tribune’s Rick Pearson. — Illinois Dignity in Pay Act: House preparing for vote to eliminate sub-minimum wages: “Illinois workers with developmental and intellectual disabilities have been paid much less than the minimum wage since 1938,” by WAND TV’s Mike Miletich. — Has this been happening? State Sen. Robert Peters advanced legislation out of the Senate on Thursday to ban employers from requiring workers to attend meetings regarding political or religious matters. — TAKING NAMES: Fifth-grade teacher Rachael Mahmood was named the 2024 Illinois Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Board of Education. Mahmood teaches at Georgetown Elementary School in Aurora, the Daily Herald's Alicia Fabbre reports.
| | | | A message from Uber:   | | | | | BUSINESS OF POLITICS | | — Post-Congress, Cheri Bustos and Rodney Davis see bleak prospect for election-year bipartisanship: Davis expects Donald Trump to defeat Joe Biden. "Look, I don't have any love lost for the guy. ... Frankly, I think it's a disaster that these are the only two candidates that America gets to choose from.” Lee Enterprises’ Brenden Moore reports.
| | CHICAGO | | — Chicago Police won’t discipline nine officers with extremist group ties: “Mayor Brandon Johnson and Police Superintendent Larry Snelling had earlier vowed to rid the department of officers on the anti-government group Oath Keepers rolls,” by WBEZ’s Dan Mihalopoulos and the Sun-Times’ Tom Schuba. — Demolition begins on Thompson Center exterior: “Google bought the 39-year-old building for $105 million in 2022 with plans to redevelop it into its Chicago headquarters for 2,000 of its employees,” by the Sun-Times’ Kade Heather. — Friday morning swim club canceled as organizers blame city’s ‘unreasonable’ demands, by the Block Club’s Mack Liederman — Chicago’s summer festival list is out
| | COOK COUNTY AND COLLARS | | — Villa Park murder-suicide spurs change in domestic-violence prosecutions: “State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said he is instituting a new procedure to address what he calls a time issue with determining whether to ask that a person be held in custody while awaiting trial,” by the Daily Herald’s Susan Sarkauskas and Charles Keeshan. — New Dolton subpoena targets financial information for Mayor Tiffany Henyard, spending on trips, by the Daily Southtown’s Mike Nolan and the Tribune’s Jason Meisner
| | | | Power Play will be at the 27th Annual Milken Global Conference in Los Angeles, from May 5-8. POLITICO’s highly influential podcast, hosted by Anne McElvoy, will bring conversations with power players in politics, finance, tech philanthropy and beyond to your ears, as they grapple with the world’s most pressing and complex challenges. Listen and follow Power Play here. | | | | | | | Reader Digest | | We asked who you stood in line for for hours: Steve Andersson: “The Tutankhamun exhibit in Chicago in 1977. It was a long line, but worth the wait!!” Bob Kieckhefer: “When my kids were little, Santa at Marshall Field’s, and that was after an equally long wait to have breakfast under the tree in the Walnut Room!” Chris Kolker: “Barack Obama's first inauguration and Superbowl XLIII (Cardinals v. Steelers).” Ed Mazur: “To pay my respects to Mayor Richard J. Daley at our Lady of Nativity Church in Bridgeport.” Marilynn Miller: “Frank Sinatra at Notre Dame in the 1980s.” Jen Olaya: “Pope Francis, who was in Central Park on Sept. 24, 2015.” Joan Pederson: “Last day of Field Museum's 1977 King Tut exhibit: overnight with college friends on the sidewalk in sleeping bags.” Erika Poethig: “I have stood in long lines with both my children to see the Easter Bunny and the President (Obama and Biden) at the White House Easter Egg Roll.” Mark Rosenberg: “Waiting in line in Grant Park on election night in 2008 to see Barack Obama.” Claude Walker: “I waited in frigid lines for two mayoral wakes (Daley and Washington).” Chris White: “Return of the Jedi.” NEXT QUESTION: When did you ride a horse?
| | KEEPING UP WITH THE DELEGATION | | — Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10), a member of the House Foreign Affairs and Ways and Means committees, returned recently from an official visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was invited to speak at the World Economic Forum’s Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development. — Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) headlines the Global Strategy Group’s Staffer podcast. Listen here — Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) visited the southern border on a bipartisan trip to Arizona. His team said he spoke directly with border patrol agents, government officials and small business owners about "the challenges they face in keeping the border secure and managing the flow of immigrants.”
| | THE NATIONAL TAKE | | — Why Johnson is stuck with threats to end his speakership, by POLITICO’s Jordain Carney and Nichola Wu — Biden condemns campus protest violence: No ‘right to cause chaos,’ by POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn — Why Kristi Noem’s damage-control tour is probably doomed — and it isn’t her dead dog’s fault, by POLITICO’s Natalie Allison, Adam Wren and Alex Isenstadt
| | TRANSITIONS | | — Juan Sebastian Arias is now executive director of Elevated Chicago nonprofit. He was a senior policy staffer in the Lightfoot and Johnson administrations. — Patrick Brutus is senior director of real estate programs for Community Desk Chicago, a not-for-profit economic development group. He spent nearly two decades with the City of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development, including helping build up the Invest South/West Program on Chicago’s South and West sides. — Kamau Kemayo has been named interim executive director of the Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum. Kemayo is a University of Illinois Springfield professor who has served on the museum’s board, by the State Journal-Register’s Claire Grant.
| | | | A message from Uber: Uber Drivers Accelerate Electric Vehicle Shift
As Earth Month spotlights sustainability, a noteworthy trend emerges: Uber drivers are adopting electric vehicles seven times faster than the average driver. For every driver on the Uber platform who switches to an EV, the emissions savings are quadrupled compared to what typical drivers would achieve.
This shift didn’t just happen. It’s part of Uber’s commitment to ensuring that, by 2030, 100% of trips on its platform in the US are in zero-emission vehicles or through micromobility and public transport. Now drivers with Uber are leading the way in advancing clean energy transportation.
Discover more about how Uber is going green. | | | | | EVENTS | | — Saturday: The Rev. Jesse Jackson will receive a lifetime achievement award from The CIRCLE Foundation during its gala awards dinner at Alhambra Palace. ABC 7 co-anchor Val Warner will emcee. Details here — May 16: Join a two-hour tour of "The Calumet River and Its Toxic Islands.” “You’ll have the opportunity to see, smell and even taste the environmental challenges that residents face on a daily basis,” say organizers. Details here
| | TRIVIA | | THURSDAY’s ANSWER: Congrats to Corrine Williams and John Straus for correctly answering that this saluki statue is located on the campus of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. TODAY’s QUESTION: What was the original name of the Chicago Bears and where were they located? I will take the fifth correct answer!
| | HAPPY BIRTHDAY | | Today: Jordan Abudayyeh, the governor’s deputy chief of staff for communications, 47th Ward Committeeman Paul Rosenfeld, Congresswoman Kelly Legislative Director Earl Flood, former House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, former state Rep. Yoni Pizer, Executive Vice President for Strategy and Planning at the Civic Committee and Commercial Club Erika Poethig, Sen. Tammy Duckworth Outreach Director Jessica Sewell, Mercy Home’s CEO Rev. Scott Donahue, former Mondelēz International CEO Irene Rosenfeld, Ward365 Executive Director LaToyia Huggins, Illinois Policy Institute board member Ed Bachrach, Acacia Consulting Group’s Tom Elliott, DLA Piper real estate attorney Mark Yura, William Blake Holdings President Whitney Reis Lasky, musician and activist Ted Sirota, political commentator Charles Thomas, PR pro Orly Telisman and health policy Senate legislative assistant Vic Goetz. Saturday: Cook County Circuit Court Judge Stephanie Saltouros, former Lt. Gov. Neil Hartigan, comms consultant and lobbyist David Ormsby, attorney and former Cook County exec G.A. Finch, Mesirow Financial community engagement VP Ellie Forman, fashion consultant and designer Crystal McAuliffe, TSA senior speechwriter Chris Peleo-Lazar, political pundit George Will and DoorDash Government Affairs Manager Clark Kaericher and his wife, Katie Kaericher, who share the same birthday. Sunday: Federal Judge Robert Gettleman, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Joe Panarese, businessman and former state Rep. Dwight Kay, governor’s director of fiscal operations Bill House, former congressional candidate Catalina Lauf, former HRO Political Director Joe Woodward, Circle Of Service Foundation Senior Program Director Charise Williams, attorney Drew Beres, attorney Bryan Sugar and journalist Mark Caro. -30- | | | | Follow us on Twitter | | | | Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook family Playbook | Playbook PM | California Playbook | Florida Playbook | Illinois Playbook | Massachusetts Playbook | New Jersey Playbook | New York Playbook | Ottawa Playbook | Brussels Playbook | London Playbook View all our political and policy newsletters | | Follow us | | | | |
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