Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers could soon make it easier for children in foster care to live with their relatives or other people…
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Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers in early January could consider easing requirements for residents to change their names, a move proponents say will…
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Capitol News Illinois The minimum wage in Illinois will increase to $15 an hour on Jan. 1, completing a six-year transition period since the increase…
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Capitol News Illinois Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those…
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By Tammie Sloup FarmWeek U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing federal protections for the monarch butterfly. The service Thursday, Dec. 12, proposed to…
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Capitol News Illinois Illinois utilities are set to invest more than a billion dollars into upgrading the state’s electric distribution grid, resulting in higher rates…
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Capitol News Illinois CHICAGO – Before jurors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s trial departed the Dirksen Federal Courthouse for a two-week break on…
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Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — Changes that would make Illinois pension systems compliant with Social Security by improving benefits for government employees hired since 2011…
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Capitol News Illinois When you flip the switch, the lights come on. But in Illinois, after years of sweeping reforms to the energy industry and…
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Capitol News Illinois CHICAGO – After calling 50 witnesses over the last two months, prosecutors in former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s federal corruption trial…
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