By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – Stateville Correctional Center could close as early as September under a plan laid out by Gov. JB Pritzker’s…
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By ANDREW ADAMS& HANNAH MEISELCapitol News [email protected] CHICAGO – A year and a half after Republican Darren Bailey lost his campaign to challenge Gov. JB…
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By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News [email protected] Nearly 200 years after Native Americans were forced out of Illinois, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has become the first…
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By Jennifer Bamberg, Investigate Midwest, Investigate MidwestOriginally published April 10, 2024 During the 2023 harvest season, one of Jake Lieb’s tractors quit working. A week…
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By JERRY NOWICKI Capitol News Illinois [email protected] A Centralia funeral home director who was subject to a complaint that his embalming room looked like a…
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By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – After suddenly pleading guilty as his federal corruption trial was wrapping up this week, former state Sen. Sam…
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By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News [email protected] This is a breaking news story and will be updated. As federal prosecutors were preparing to rest their case Thursday…
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By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Bass pulled no punches in describing former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann on the…
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By HANNAH MEISELCapitol News [email protected] CHICAGO – For most of his adult working life, Tim Mapes only had one boss: former Illinois House Speaker Michael…
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By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – The federal corruption trial of former Republican state Sen. Sam McCann was delayed again on Monday, but this…
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