GOPUSA Illinois

DAILY HERALD
— Independence Day celebration a two-day affair in Wheaton – Jessica Cilella  (DIERSEN: Why doesn’t this include the following: Mark Kirk; Bruce Rauner and Evelyn Sanguinetti; Mike Connelly and Jeanne Ives; Peter Breen; Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, and Tim Whelan; and the Milton Township Republican Central Committee will be in Wheaton’s Independence Day Parade. For the 11th consecutive year, DuPage Republicans will help sponsor the parade. This year, they will be a $2,500 Gold Celebration Partner for the fireworks and parade. 22 DuPage Republicans have pledged $2,500: $250 from Chris Nybo, $150 from Liam Brennan, Dave Diersen, and Phil Suess, and $100 each from Bob Berlin, Peter Breen, Fred Bucholz, Mike Connelly, Tim Elliott, Amy Grant, Jeanne Ives, Richard Jorgensen, Chris Kachiroubas, Mark Kirk, Brian Krajewski, Bob Lyon, Deanne Mazzochi, James Mendrick, Peter Roskam, Darlene Ruscitti, Tim Whelan, and Jim Zay. The DuPage County Republican contribution has been designated for the Tunes of Glory Pipes and Drums $1,000 entry, the Wheaton North High School Band $600 entry, and the Wheaton Warrenville South High School Band $600 entry.)
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160628/news/160629070/
— Some Illinois lawmakers say something’s got to give with budget battle – Kerry Lester
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160628/news/160628983/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump gets Mike Ditka, Mike Tyson to speak at GOP convention – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/trump-mike-ditka-mike-tyson-appear-gop-convention/
— Rauner, Dems produce competing stopgap bills as clock ticks – Tina Sfondeles
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/rauner-dems-produce-competing-stopgap-bills-as-clock-ticks/
— Time for Rauner to bail on his obsession with the ‘B’ word – Mark Brown
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/brown-time-for-rauner-to-bail-on-obsession-b-word-bailout/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Rauner unveils school funding plan that doesn’t contain CPS ‘bailout’ – Monique Garcia
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-bruce-rauner-illinois-budget-impasse-met-0629-20160628-story.html
— DuPage springs for $13.4 million state-of-art 911 system – Gary Gibula
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-new-county-911-system-st-0629-20160628-story.html
— Naperville, Elgin, Aurora make Top 10 for DUI arrests in Illinois – Bill Bird
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-nvs-naperville-annual-aaim-survey-st-0629-20160628-story.html
— Area mayors weigh in on state budget mess as deadline looms – Mike Danahey and Genevieve Bookwalter
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/naperville-sun/news/ct-ecn-mayors-state-budget-st-0629-20160628-story.html

REUTERS
— GAO expands probe of lax Wall Street oversight – JONATHAN SPICER  (DIERSEN: For 8 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, I worked on audits of federal financial industry regulators.)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-regulators-probe-idUSKCN0ZE2MU
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A U.S. congressional watchdog said on Tuesday it has formally added three agencies to its investigation into whether government regulators are too soft on the banks they are meant to police. In March, Reuters exclusively reported that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was preparing a probe of the U.S. Federal Reserve and other to-be-determined regulators, in response to a request by Democratic U.S. Representatives Maxine Waters and Al Green for it to look into “regulatory capture.” The review, requested last October, is the first by an outside agency into the perception that financial regulators are “captured” by and too deferential toward the bankers they supervise, so that Wall Street benefits at the public’s expense. Lawrance Evans, director of the GAO’s financial markets and community investment division, said in an email on Tuesday that the probe would include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA). The GAO will also look back at work by the Office of Thrift Supervision, which merged with the OCC in 2011, and regulates savings and loan institutions.)

WASHINGTON POST
— House Democrats need to remember causing chaos isn’t a wise course – Newt Gingrich
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/house-democrats-need-to-remember-causing-chaos-isnt-a-wise-course/2016/06/28/ad47a430-3d48-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html
— More than 5,300 U.S. water systems violated lead-testing rules last year – Brady Dennis
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/06/28/more-than-5000-u-s-water-systems-violated-lead-testing-rules-last-year/