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Bloomington to receive $1.9 million to revitalize downtown
(Photo courtesy WMBD-TV)BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday that Bloomington will be among the grant recipients receiving help to revitalize their downtowns.Pritzker announce...
Apr 23, 2025 (Photo courtesy: File)
Pared-back ‘Right to Play’ bill advances in General Assembly, awaits Senate action
Rep. Janet Yang Rohr urges passage of a bill to let high school athletes compete simultaneously on school teams and in non-school events during debate on the House floor Wednesday, April 9. (Capitol N...
Apr 22, 2025
Citing growing list of duties, Illinois’ Raoul seeks a $15M increase in AG budget
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul answers questions during a luncheon interview at the City Club of Chicago on April 1, 2025. (Credit: City Club of Chicago)By PETER HANCOCKCapitol News Illinoispha...
Apr 22, 2025
Bloomington residents urged to apply for lead paint program
(Photo courtesy WMBD-TV)BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) - There's still time, Bloomington officials say, for residents to apply for money to remove lead paint from their homes.The lead paint remediation...
Apr 22, 2025 (Photo courtesy: File)
Social Security rescinding its plan to end phone-based filing called a win for Illinois seniors
The Illinois State Capitol is pictured in Springfield. (Capitol News Illinois file photo)By ISABELLA SCHOONOVERMedill Illinois News Bureaunews@capitolnewsillinois.comSPRINGFIELD - The Illinois chapter...
Apr 21, 2025
Legislature kills bill that would have expanded resentencing for youth offenders
Rep. Theresa Mah, D-Chicago, rushes across the House floor shortly after her bill failed - a rare embarrassment for a lawmaker in the legislature's supermajority. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Andre...
Apr 11, 2025
FBI mole told Sen. Emil Jones III to suggest ‘creative’ way to accept $5K lest it ‘look goofy’
The government's star witness, red-light camera entrepreneur-turned-FBI mole Omar Maani, finished testimony Thursday in State Sen. Emil Jones III's federal corruption trial at the Dirksen Federal Cour...
Apr 11, 2025
Senate OKs police hiring reform, Sangamon County recall in response to Sonya Massey’s death
Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, speaks on the Senate floor on Thursday, April 10, 2025. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Peter Hancock)By BEN SZALINSKICapitol News Illinoisbszalinski@capitolnewsillin...
Apr 11, 2025
Supreme Court rules House Republicans waited too long to challenge maps
Illinois House Republicans waited too long to file a lawsuit challenging legislative maps drawn in 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.By BEN SZALINSKICapitol News Illinoisbszalinski@capi...
Apr 10, 2025
At Jones trial, jury hears lawmaker bringing colleague into fold of ‘personal benefits’
State Sen. Emil Jones III, D-Chicago, exits the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Monday, April 7, after the first day of jury selection in his corruption trial. Jones is accused of agreeing to bribes fro...
Apr 10, 2025
