Category Archives: State News
New bill in response to falling-out between a big insurance company and a big health provider in Springfield
State Sen. Doris Turner (center) is sponsoring a bill in response to the falling-out between a big insurance company – Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois – and a big provider, Springfi...
Mar 25, 2022
Simon Wiesenthal Center issues annual report tracking anti-Semitism
At a statehouse news conference Thursday, Rabbi Abraham Cooper quoted Wiesenthal. (Photo courtesy: Dave Dahl/WJBC) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – If hate has no home here, it certainly is comfortabl...
Mar 24, 2022
Illinois Democrats hold victory lap press conference after passing unemployment fund bill
Gov. Pritzker spoke Thursday afternoon. (Photo courtesy: Mike Miletich/HOI) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Illinois Democrats congratulated themselves Thursday afternoon on the bill that replenishes...
Mar 24, 2022
Unemployment rate down and jobs up in Illinois over the past month
The national unemployment rate for February came in at 3.8%. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By IIS and Blake HaasSPRINGFIELD – The unemployment rate was down, and Illinois’ jobs were up last ...
Mar 24, 2022
Some Illinois lawmakers want to sweeten the pot to become a volunteer firefighter
State Sen. Christopher Belt (D-Swansea). (Dave Dahl/WJBC)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – It seems like serving on a volunteer fire department is something more people did in Ye Olde Tymes. Now, people...
Mar 24, 2022
Illinois House passes bill to put money back into the unemployment insurance trust fund
Lawmakers are preparing to put in some late nights, with two and a half weeks to go in the session. Wednesday evening's highlight, a debate and vote on a bill to replenish the fund used to pay people ...
Mar 24, 2022
Gov. JB Pritzker reacts to the Senate turning down one of his appointees to the Prisoner Review Board
Gov. Pritzker. (Photo courtesy: Gov. Pritzker) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – While Republicans try to make hay from Gov Pritzker's record on crime ... there's also the record of the Prisoner Review...
Mar 23, 2022
Republicans demand answers after DCFS Director held in contempt of court for the seventh time
State Rep. David Welters (R-Morris) said it’s unacceptable that DCFS can’t be better at protecting children in its care. (Photo courtesy: Illinois Department of Children and Family Service...
Mar 23, 2022
House lawmakers trade words about the LGBTQ community
State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) (Photo courtesy www.ilga.gov)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – A champion swimmer and a woman whose body was pulled from Lake Michigan a few days ago have two things...
Mar 23, 2022
Jelani Day bill approved by Illinois House committee
Day was a graduate student at Illinois State University who went missing in August. Despite efforts to find him alive, authorities found his body floating in the Illinois River on September 4. (Photos...
Mar 23, 2022
