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Illinois health plan declares racism a public health crisis

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Advocacy groups say ‘Healthy Illinois 2028’ is missing key areas of focus By Dilpreet RajuCapitol News Illinoisdraju@capitolnewsillinois.com A new state health report pinpoints racism as a public health crisis while also noting Illinois needs to improve in the areas of maternal and infant health, mental health and substance use disorders....

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Dolly Parton Imagination Library officially launches statewide in Illinois
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Dolly Parton Imagination Library officially launches statewide in Illinois

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Pritzker says goal is to send free books to all children, ages 0-5 By Peter HancockCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com Illinois families with infants and toddlers now have access to free children’s books that can be sent directly to their home, regardless of their income. Governor JB Pritzker on Tuesday, Dec. 5...

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Temporary staffing agencies seek to block new State law

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By Peter Hancock A group of temporary staffing agencies and their trade associations are asking a federal court to block enforcement of a new State law that governs how day laborers and temp workers are managed and paid. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in Chicago, challenges several changes enacted...

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Health care shortages prevail

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By Hannah Meisel As Illinois faces shortages of health care practitioners and mental health professionals, the State agency in charge of licensing for those and more than 100 other industries has struggled to keep up. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has failed to meet its goals to...

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Illinois receives Fitch credit rating upgrade

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By Jerry Nowicki Illinois received another credit upgrade Tuesday, the same day a legislative committee once again scrutinized governor JB Pritzker’s administration for its handling of unemployment claims during the COVID-19 pandemic. The upgrade came from Fitch Ratings, the last remaining holdout of the nation’s three major credit reporting agencies...

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Reading, math scores, up; graduation rate 13-year high

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By Peter Hancock Elementary and secondary students in Illinois showed consistent improvements in their reading and math scores while the State’s high school graduation rate reached a 13-year high for the most recently concluded school year. Those are some of the conclusions from the most recent annual statewide school report...

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Pritzker proposes new early childhood agency in Illinois

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By Peter Hancock Vowing to make Illinois the top state in the Nation for child-care accessibility, governor JB Pritzker unveiled a plan Tuesday, Oct. 24 to consolidate all the State’s early-childhood programs and funding into one new State agency. “Early Childhood program governance has to be unified in its focus...

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Illinois prepares for migrants

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By Hannah Meisel As Chicago prepares for an increase in the already steady stream of migrants arriving from the southern U.S. border this week, governor JB Pritzker is once again publicly pressuring president Joe Biden to play a larger role in coordinating relocation efforts. “There is much more that can...

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Illinois county clerks seek help to stop misinformation

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By Peter Hancock Six months before the next presidential primary elections in Illinois, county clerks and other local election authorities are asking for the public’s help in stopping misinformation campaigns before they get started. Officials from 25 counties scheduled a series of news conferences Tuesday, Sept. 26 in Tazewell, McLean...

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New learning center in the Illinois Supreme Court building in Springfield
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State’s high court opens new interactive learning center

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Displays offer insight into role of judicial branch By Peter HancockCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com In 1946, the Illinois Supreme Court heard a case that would eventually become a landmark in American legal history. The public school district in Champaign, like many other districts in Illinois at the time, allowed a group...

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As state Supreme Court weighs another BIPA lawsuit, lawmakers mull child data privacy framework

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Health care industry argues it is exempt from biometric privacy liability By Andrew AdamsCapitol News Illinoisaadams@capitolnewsillinois.com In Springfield on Thursday, the medical industry went to court. The Illinois Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a pair of class action suits brought by two suburban nurses, Lucille Mosby and Yana Mazya,...

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Biden administration responds to calls from Pritzker, other leaders, for help in migrant crisis

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Homeland Security will expedite work authorizations among other actions By Peter HancockCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com The Department of Homeland Security will speed up the processing of work authorizations for asylum seekers and extend Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan migrants, actions that could help thousands of migrants who have arrived in Illinois...

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As SAFE-T Act goes live, murder suspects previously eligible to post bond are held in jail

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By Beth Hundsdorfer & Hannah Meisel In courtrooms around the state early this week, judges conducted the first hearings under a new system that determines whether a defendant will be jailed while awaiting trial based on dangerousness and risk of fleeing prosecution, rather than their ability to post bail. The...

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New Illinois State policy to require noncitizen copay

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By Peter Hancock The State has paused a new policy requiring certain noncitizens enrolled in a Medicaid-like health insurance plan to pay copayments for certain services, instructing health care providers to refund any such payments they have already collected. Omar Shaker, the interim chief of administrative rules at the Department...

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Tim Mapes, center, the former chief of staff for longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Thursday, Aug. 24, after being found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Hannah Meisel)
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Jury convicts Madigan’s longtime chief of staff on perjury, obstruction of justice charges

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Tim Mapes was charged with lying to grand jury investigating Madigan and his inner circle. By Hannah Meisel A federal jury has convicted the once-top aide to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, finding Tim Mapes guilty on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for lying to a grand...

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Auto theft in focus in Illinois

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By Jerry Nowicki Six interagency law enforcement task forces received grant funding this Spring to combat car thefts through an initiative of Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias’ office. Giannoulias was in Belleville Tuesday to promote the initiative and highlight a $2.5 million grant to the Metro East Auto Theft Task...

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Federal judge temporarily blocks Illinois law subjecting ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ to civil liability

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Anti-abortion groups claim victory – for now By Hannah MeiselCapitol News Illinoishmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com A new law allowing Illinoisans to sue so-called crisis pregnancy centers under the State’s Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act is on hold after a federal judge late Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against it. After a...

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Representatives of Peoples Gas listen to AARP state director Philippe Largent, who requested public hearings to discuss the utility’s proposed rate increase that is pending before the Illinois Commerce Commission.
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Residents, activists ask state regulators to reject utilities’ rate increases

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Top concerns include affordability, business practices, climate effects By Andrew AdamsCapitol News Illinoisaadams@capitolnewsillinois.com Members of the public railed against potential increases to the price of natural gas and electricity at two recent public hearings before a state regulatory body that has the authority to limit those rate hikes. The Illinois...

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First new automotive plant since 1965 for the EV

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By Peter Hancock Governor JB Pritzker has spent much of his time in recent weeks promoting the State’s electric vehicle EV) industry and touting the impact of his signature Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, or CEJA, including during a weeklong trade mission to the United Kingdom. Pritzker was in Joliet...

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Illinois Contract for American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council (AFSCME) 31

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By Peter Hancock Governor JB Pritzker and the State’s largest public employee union announced Tuesday, July 25 that they have agreed on a new contract that will provide a nearly 18% pay raise over four years, including a four percent raise this year. The contract expands parental leave to 12...

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