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Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during an event EVBox's U.S. headquarters in Libertyville on Oct. 27, 2023.

Proposal to extend stiffer gun offense penalty joins school tax credit, end to nuke moratorium on agenda of Illinois legislature’s final week

November 6, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

After more than 770 homicides were recorded in Chicago in 2016, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration pressed Illinois lawmakers to pass a measure that would increase minimum prison sentences for repeat...

Robert Bevis, owner of Law Weapons & Supply, holds a Colt AR-15 carbine gun in his store in Naperville on May 11, 2023.

Federal appeals court upholds sweeping Illinois gun ban

November 4, 2023 at 2:31 p.m.

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Illinois' sweeping ban on high-powered guns, rejecting an argument that the law violates the Second Amendment rights of residents but leaving the door...

Rep. Ann Williams at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on May 18, 2023.

State lawmakers propose new Chicago school board map days ahead of return to Springfield

November 2, 2023 at 11:46 a.m.

Democratic state lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled their latest attempt at drawing districts for an elected school board in Chicago, a little more than a year before voters first cast ballots...

Inn of Chicago shelter employees unload and load a white van outside the shelter Tuesday Oct. 3, 2023 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Chicago renueva un año más el contrato del albergue de inmigrantes con Favorite Staffing a pesar de las críticas

April 15, 2024 at 3:44 p.m.

La administración del alcalde Brandon Johnson ha renovado un controvertido contrato con la empresa de los suburbios de Kansas City que suministra personal a los albergues para inmigrantes de la...

Inn of Chicago shelter employees, who are contracted by Favorite Healthcare Staffing, unload and load a white van outside the shelter on Oct. 3, 2023.

Chicago renews migrant shelter contract with Favorite Staffing for another year despite criticism

March 11, 2024 at 12:30 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration has renewed a controversial contract with the out-of-state company that staffs the city's migrant shelters despite its significant overtime billing, a move his team said was...

State Rep. Larry Walsh Jr. addresses students, faculty and staff gathered at a rally at Governors State University in University Park in 2016. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Downstate utility, electrical workers union put effort to control transmission line construction on hold

October 26, 2023 at 12:26 p.m.

Measures tied to organized labor were the focus at the Illinois Capitol Wednesday as the state House voted to allow legislative staffers to organize while a politically powerful union and...

St. Francis de Sales Catholic High School students in class at the Southeast Side school on June 7, 2023. The Catholic high school of approximately 200 students has some students who receive a controversial tax credit scholarship.

Democratic legislators introduce bill to extend controversial private school tax credit program

October 24, 2023 at 7:33 p.m.

Illinois House Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would extend a controversial private school tax credit for another five years, which supporters say could prevent thousands of children whose tuitions...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announces expanded reproductive health care protections on July 31, 2023, at UIC's Student Center West.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker proposes new agency for early childhood services

October 24, 2023 at 6:04 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday offered a broad outline of his plan to create a new state agency devoted to early childhood services, consolidating work now handled by three separate...

The rotunda at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on April 19, 2023.

Measures to extend private school tax credit, lift nuclear plant moratorium top agenda of state legislature’s end-of-year session

October 23, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

A controversial private school tax credit that's set to expire at the end of the year is one of the biggest unresolved issues Illinois lawmakers could take up when they...

A child pushed in a stroller watches as contractors working at the Inn of Chicago migrant shelter unload supplies and transport them into the shelter on Oct. 3, 2023.

Clocked in 12 hours a day, 7 days a week: How staffing bills for migrant shelters swelled with overtime

March 11, 2024 at 12:31 p.m.

When a security guard clocked out of a Streeterville migrant shelter one Friday in March, he'd just logged his 84th hour at work that week. His bosses told the city...

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