By COLE LONGCOR Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – An Illinois House committee advanced a measure that would end the state’s subminimum wage for tipped…
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By DILPREET RAJU Capitol News Illinois [email protected] CHICAGO – In a visit to Chicago on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced $78 million in…
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By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker’s plan to consolidate the state’s early childhood programs into one new cabinet-level agency…
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By COLE LONGCOR Capitol News Illinois [email protected] After two members of the state’s Prisoner Review Board resigned last week following the release of a prisoner…
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BY Dean Olsen Courtesy of the Illinois Times The date was Jan. 29, 2009, and Pat Quinn was sitting at his desk in the lieutenant…
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By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – A federal judge in Puerto Rico last week told a politically connected former state contractor that…
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By COLE LONGCOR Capitol News Illinois [email protected] A $73 million state-funded project in Lake County aims to stabilize the last undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline in…
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By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois [email protected] CHICAGO – A panel of federal appellate judges on Thursday seemed skeptical of legal arguments made on behalf…
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By BETH HUNDSDORFER Capitol News Illinois [email protected] Cyrenthia Threat spent Wednesday morning at a hiring event in Fairview Heights waiting for word on whether she…
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By HANNAH MEISEL & DILPREET RAJU Capitol News Illinois [email protected] The Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear the case of actor Jussie Smollett,…
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