Written by David E. Smith
Last week, Governor JB Pritzker stood alongside State Senator Celina Villanueva (D-Chicago), State Representative Mary Beth Canty (D-Arlington Heights), Megan Jeyifo of the Chicago Abortion Fund, and other abortion cheerleaders at a press conference celebrating the passage and signing of the Reproductive Health Privacy Act (HB 5295).
As we reported in an article last week, this new law mandates that abortion-related and transgender-related medical records be electronically segregated and limits disclosure through health information networks.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown — the largest coordinated health care fraud enforcement action in U.S. history — charging 455 defendants across 45 states and territories in alleged schemes totaling more than $6.5 billion in false claims.
Led by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the sweeping operation involved the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and 50 state Medicaid Fraud Control Units.… Continue Reading
Tags: 2026 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, Anthony P. D’Esposito, Cheryl Mason, Colin M. McDonald, DEA, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Donald Trump, Dr. Mehmet Oz, edicaid Fraud Control Unit, FBI, FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters, Health Care Fraud, Health Care Fraud Unit’s Data Analytics Team, HHS-OIG, Homeland Security Investigations, Illinois Medicaid, IRS Criminal Investigation, J.D. Vance, JD Vance, Jr., Kash Patel, Markwayne Mullin, Medicaid, Medicare, Office of Inspector General, Office of Personnel Management Office of Inspector General, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, T. March Bell, the Department of Veterans Affairs, Todd Blanche, United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General, White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud
Uncategorized | David E. Smith | 
June 23, 2026 12:00 PM | 
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Written by David E. Smith
The Illinois Local News Summit is an annual event held in Chicago that focuses on supporting a strong, free press and addressing the challenges facing local journalism. This year it was held on Friday, April 10, 2026, at the Union League Club in Chicago. This year’s featured speaker was Governor JB Pritzker.
Introducing the governor was Daniel Ash, president of the Field Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and a private foundation with more than $50 million in assets.… Continue Reading
Tags: Daniel Ash, Gov. JB Pritzker, Health Misinformation Act, Illinois Local News Summit, JB Prtizker, Journalism Sustainability Tax Incentive Program, Press Forward Chicago, Press Forward Springfield, Pritzker’s Pravda, Union League Club
Uncategorized | David E. Smith | April 14, 2026 6:00 PM | Comments Off on A Free Press or A Government Subsidized Press?
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
In this special Spotlight episode, IFI’s Dave Smith sits down with Monte Larrick.
Monte Larrick served as Spotlight’s host and IFI’s Media Director who dedicated the 11 years he was at IFI to inform Illinois constituents on important issues with conciseness and clarity.
In this episode, Monte shares untold stories and experiences in his longtime career covering politics for Moody Radio.
This is a nostalgic episode you do not want to miss.… Continue Reading
Written by Peter Heck
Societies like ours don’t jump off ethical cliffs in a single leap. They drift toward them in the name of lofty sounding ideals like autonomy and empathy.
Illinois Senate Bill 1950 is a tragic example of this.
The bill allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to patients deemed “terminal” within six months.… Continue Reading
Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg
How should we view immigration from a biblical perspective?
Dr. Shando Valdez, a political consultant, clergy organizer, and senior pastor at New Jerusalem Baptist church in Chicago, answers this very question in this week’s Spotlight episode.
“[Jesus] understood that countries have laws, that countries have borders.”
This is an episode you will not want to miss.
Listen to “A Biblical Perspective on Immigration” anywhere you find podcasts or click the link!… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
Dr. Susan Monarez, PhD—a microbiologist, public health official, and former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—testified yesterday before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. She alleged that she was fired for refusing to comply with directives from Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which she said would have compromised scientific integrity.
According to Monarez, she was pressured to approve changes to the childhood vaccination schedule, including the possible removal of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Big Medicine, Big Pharma, Bill Cassidy, CDC, COVID–19, Dr. Susan Monarez, Hepatitis-B vaccine, Rand Paul, Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Uncategorized | David E. Smith | September 18, 2025 10:00 AM | Comments Off on U.S. Senator Paul Challenges Vaccine Recommendations for Infants
Written by David E. Smith
After a weekend of bloodshed—34 shot in Chicago, including a 5-year-old boy killed in his own home—Governor JB Pritzker, flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, had the audacity to declare with straight faces:
“There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention.”
For anyone who lives, works, or grew up in Chicago, the denial is staggering. Over the weekend alone, five people were killed, including the young child in Kenwood and a woman slain in a West Side mass shooting that left five others wounded.… Continue Reading
The following text is perhaps one of the most insightful appreciations of the Declaration ever pronounced. President Calvin Coolidge gave this speech in Philadelphia on July 5, 1926, marking the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. We hope you will find it encouraging.
‘If All Men Are Created Equal, That Is Final’
“If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us,
we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it.”… Continue Reading
