Republicans are calling for their Democratic counterparts in the Illinois House to join them in efforts to repeal criminal justice reforms, known as the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act.
SPRINGFIELD — Aiming to increase diversity in wind and solar jobs, a proposed measure in the Illinois General Assembly would require more transparent reporting on the level of participation of minority-owned businesses in clean energy jobs.
The package includes a renewed call for an independent redistricting commission, greater power for voters to amend the state constitution and the power to repeal legislation and the power to recall elected officials at all levels of government.
COVID-19 has claimed the lives of five more Champaign County residents.
SPRINGFIELD — School officials across Illinois say a shortage of teachers and substitutes is forcing them to cancel course offerings, move them online or fill open positions with people who are not fully qualified.
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SPRINGFIELD — Three Republican state House members called for hearings into the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services on Thursday out of concerns for workers’ safety, improper placements of state wards and the recent death of North Chicago boy.
Illinois House panel advances requirements for electric-vehicle charging at new, renovated buildings
SPRINGFIELD — A measure before the General Assembly would require new and renovated residential or commercial buildings to set aside parking spaces that could easily be converted into charging stations for electric vehicles.
SPRINGFIELD — State Treasurer Michael Frerichs of Champaign will have competition in his bid for a third term this year.
In other remarks Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker pointed to his efforts to double State Police patrols on Chicago’s expressways, to increase funding for the State Police to add more troopers, and to build a new State Police crime lab.
A Cook County judge found Illinois Department of Children & Family Services Director Marc Smith in contempt for the continued improper placement of two state wards.
SPRINGFIELD — The last day on the job for the Legislative Inspector General Carol Pope was Thursday. The office was vacant as of Friday.
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers this week passed a bill clarifying issues around the massive criminal-justice reform law that was approved last year with the support of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus.
In other remarks Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker pointed to his efforts to double State Police patrols on Chicago’s expressways, to increase funding for the State Police to add more troopers, and to build a new State Police crime lab.
SPRINGFIELD — The 2022 session of the Illinois General Assembly will be even shorter than originally planned due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases, Democratic leaders announced.
lllinois State Police said this morning that Darius D. Sullivan was in custody and that arrangements were being made to transport him to Kankakee County.
“The state is saying let’s find a way to centralize and automate this, make it run a bit more efficient and give the local health departments a break,” Vermilion County public health administrator Doug Toole said.
Starting today, Illinois county health departments, including the DeWitt/Piatt Bi-County Health Department and Champaign-Urbana Public Health District, will hand off a majority of case investigations to the state department's surge center.
In other remarks Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker pointed to his efforts to double State Police patrols on Chicago’s expressways, to increase funding for the State Police to add more troopers, and to build a new State Police crime lab.
In other remarks Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker pointed to his efforts to double State Police patrols on Chicago’s expressways, to increase funding for the State Police to add more troopers, and to build a new State Police crime lab.
Five local state legislators say they all plan to run for re-election 11 months from now.
Several Illinois lawmakers said this week they are determined to pass a bill in the spring that would overhaul the way nursing homes are paid through the state’s Medicaid program to address critical staffing shortages.
In other remarks Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker pointed to his efforts to double State Police patrols on Chicago’s expressways, to increase funding for the State Police to add more troopers, and to build a new State Police crime lab.
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Supreme Court will lift its pause on judicial redistricting Jan. 1, fully implementing new judicial boundaries passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker earlier this year.
Says wife of Stateville Correctional Center inmate: “I know many people may think that they are bad people, but if you are going to put them in there, you have to take care of them."
SPRINGFIELD — With a pair of major policy victories in hand, Gov. J.B. Pritzker traveled to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, at the beginning of the month and shared a vision for his home state: “Illinois intends to become the best place in North America to …
Greg Harris is the first openly LGBTQ legislative leader in Illinois history who spent much of his time in office advancing gay rights, health care reform and social service funding.
SPRINGFIELD — Lawyers for the General Assembly’s Democratic leaders filed documents in federal court denying that newly drawn state legislative district maps amount to racial gerrymandering, instead accusing the plaintiffs in the three lawsuits of trying to use race to redraw districts for t…
The new maps create a new 13th District stretching from the Metro East region across a narrow strip of land through Springfield and Decatur, to Champaign. They also combine what are currently the 12th and 15th districts, held by GOP Reps. Mike Bost and Mary Miller, into a new 12th that covers most of the southern one-third of the state
“For two decades, public universities have seen declining state support for operations,” said UI Chief Financial Officer Avijit Ghosh said at Thursday’s virtual meeting. “We hope that given the state’s improved financial situation this year, we’ll see a reversal in that trend.”
A new law in Illinois aims to ban out-of-state contributions and so-called “dark money” in judicial campaigns by requiring all candidates to disclose the sources of their contributions.
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