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December 2 in O’Fallon: https://repschmidt.com/mobile-dmv-sign-up/
December 4 in Freeburg: https://repschmidt.com/mobile-dmv-sign-up-freeburg/
Residents in need of basic vehicle services provided by the Illinois Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) can take advantage of the Mobile Services Event.
The following drivers services will be available:
- Renewal/Correction of Driver’s License
- New/Renewal/Correction of State ID
- Vehicle Sticker Sales (License Plate)
- Organ/Tissue Donor Information and Registration (at time of DL/ID Renewal)
- Motor Voter Registration with Driver’s License/ID Renewal
- Real ID Applications
New Laws for 2026 Impact Illinois Employers
The new year is approaching and businesses need to prepare for new laws that will impact employers across Illinois. Employers are encouraged to to review their company policies and prepare to make changes to to comply with new Illinois employment laws. To learn more about the new laws listed below, read this article.
- Illinois Workplace Transparency Act
- Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act
- Employee Blood and Organ Donation Leave Act
- Nursing Mothers in the Workplace Act
- Illinois One Day Rest in Seven Act
- Illinois Human Rights Act
- Military Leave Act
In District
Yesterday I had lunch at Joni’s House in East St. Louis. It’s a fantastic organization that serves critical respite needs of families living with disability in the United States.
AFFORDABILITY CRISIS in Illinois Caused by Democrat Policies
Pritzker Promises Affordability, Delivers the Opposite. In yet another exaggerated claim, Governor JB Pritzker told reporters that Democrats have been “delivering for the people” of Illinois. But the actions taken by the Governor and his allies in the General Assembly prove the opposite, year-after-year.
During a media availability, Pritzker said: “I think that is what the Democratic Party is all about, delivering for the people. And here in Illinois, we’ve been doing that, I’ve been doing that for the last several years.”
In reality, during veto session, Pritzker and legislative Democrats passed a $8 billion “Green New Giveaway” that will drive up energy costs for families, and a $2.5 billion Chicago Transit bailout that raises taxes and hikes tolls by 60%…READ MORE.
Food Pantry Donation
This month I donated my raise to the Press Play organization to help feed the homeless for Thanksgiving in honor of Nancy Nixson’s two children that passed away. Nancy lost two children to gun violence, Dez’Monn Nixon & Shontaves Thomas and feeds the homeless for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Rep. Schmidt has donated every month’s pay raise to a different local food pantry or non-profit organization throughout his district since voting against the pay raise for legislators.
Mass Transit Hidden Inflation Factor
An analysis shows that a controversialIllinois mass transit bill, enacted in late October by House and Senate Democrats, contains a hidden feature that could further drive up the cost of living in northern Illinois. The language of SB 2111, passed by partisan majorities with the support of Gov. Pritzker, contains a sharp increase in the tolls to be charged upon drivers of heavy trucks on Illinois toll roads. The increase is expected to be 30% on January 1, 2027, with further increases thereafter.
The truckers’ toll hike did not get very much attention during the eye-blink time frame during which the “Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act” was being debated and voted upon during last month’s Veto Session. Most Illinoisans who were aware of the bill were, understandably, especially concerned with the soaring toll fees that will soon by imposed on ordinary and non-commercial Northern Illinois motorists. However, analysts are now pointing out that all of the costs of these heavy-truck increases are likely to be passed along to end-use customers of the goods the trucks deliver. This includes supermarket foods and truck-delivered commodities, such as motor fuel at the pump.