If there’s a list of who wasn’t prepared for a global pandemic-induced economic recession, the Illinois Department of Employment Security, the state’s unemployment agency, would be right up with about everyone else.
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Democrats are calling it “a new day.” Republicans are calling it “more of the same.”
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Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-Channahon), who has drawn criticism from Republicans across the state for his criticisms of former President Donald Trump says he won’t run statewide in 2022.
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After consistently saying for months he would raise income taxes on every Illinoisan if voters shot down his proposed graduated income tax in November, it appears Governor JB Pritzker is backing off his pledge.
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Across the state, thousands of senior citizens have spent hours stressing while trying to grab scarce, or even nonexistent, COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
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Legal sports betting in Illinois brought in a pretty penny for its first Super Bowl.
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A Democratic state senator has scheduled a hearing into the state’s slow rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Illinois Republican Party got its first downstate chairman since 1988 Saturday and the Illinois Senate Black Caucus picked up two new members.
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State Republican party officials had hoped to choose a new chairman last weekend, but a snowstorm delayed the decision to Saturday, and the race appears to be “wide open,” according to multiple state central committeemen.
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The justice system failed Cassandra Tanner-Miller. Her estranged husband nearly beat her to death, badly hurt her daughter, and shot and killed her 18-month-old son.
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House and Senate Republican leaders announced Wednesday they were introducing three constitutional amendments they say will empower voters to have more control over state government.
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A former downstate Republican senator and independent candidate for Governor has been indicted in federal court.
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Governor JB Pritzker is allowing lawmakers to jump their spot in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The Illinois Senate was scheduled to return to Springfield next week. Instead, all committees will meet virtually in February.
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The national media seems to have sunk its teeth into the notion that Republicans alone are responsible for gerrymandering legislative districts around the country. Then there’s Illinois.
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The Illinois Department of Employment and Security (IDES) reported the state’s unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent in December 2020, about double what it was in December 2019.
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Some Illinois House Republicans warn a proposed new set of standards for Illinois teachers would inject “partisan, progressive politics” into Illinois classrooms.
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Despite criticism across Illinois and the U.S., Deerfield-based pharmacy company Walgreens is reporting it has completed 100% of the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations at skilled nursing facilities it was contracted to provide.
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Political observers around the state and country nearly fell out of their collective chairs this week when a U.S. Census Bureau official said data to be used for redistricting wouldn’t be available until late July.
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Governor JB Pritzker announced Thursday 500 more Illinois National Guard troops are headed to Washington, D.C.
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