The state agency responsible for keeping Illinois’ most vulnerable children safe has failed to produce legally required public reports after examining what went wrong in hundreds of cases of child deaths and thousands of serious injuries.
As engines become more fuel efficient, and electric vehicles make greater inroads , Illinois faces an unexpected consequence — less funding for roads.
A bill introduced in the Illinois General Assembly would prohibit public schools from using discriminatory references to disabilities as mascots — requiring Freeburg High School to phase out Midgets by 2028. Little people with dwarfism consider the term to be dehumanizing and derogatory. “We don’t want to erase history,” said Shelby Holloway, co-director of Mascots Matter, a national…
Gov. Jim Edgar, who also served as Illinois secretary of state and leads the Edgar Fellows program at the University of Illinois, wrote in an email to the program’s fellows that he and his wife, Brenda, are “facing a new, significant challenge.”
The Secretary of State’s Office has added thousands of appointments to get the IDs, with only 30% of Illinoisans having obtained them.
If the defendants are successful, it could be the first time Trump’s actions have had a direct known effect on an active public corruption case in Chicago.
The Illinois Farm Bureau is concerned about harm to the state’s farmers from potential tariffs on the United States’ top three agricultural trading partners: Mexico, Canada and China.
Champaign County Jail updated the way it documents, tracks and reports use of restraint chairs after an Illinois Answers Project investigation raised questions about the facility’s record-keeping practices and failure to report incidents to a state oversight unit.
The decade-long FBI investigation that led to Madigan’s trial roiled local politics and changed the course of Illinois history.
So, what exactly is Trump planning to do, how would he do it and how would that affect local education in Illinois?
Of all Illinois jails, Madison County has the most incidents of restraint lasting longer than 10 hours–the upper limit set by the chair manufacturer.
A memo shows county officials have negotiated with the family’s lawyers and both sides reached a deal for the county to pay $10 million.
Providers at community health centers throughout Illinois on Tuesday lost immediate access to millions of dollars in federal grant funding and feared other public dollars were at stake.
Federal agents, with top Trump administration officials and right-wing media personality Dr. Phil McGraw in tow, descended on Chicago Sunday for a series of targeted immigration arrests.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois has faced an overwhelming spike in patients in the years since Roe v. Wade was overturned.