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Masks will be required at driver’s license facilities in Illinois starting Monday, Secretary of State Jesse White announced Wednesday, and Gov. JB Pritzker said he is “looking at all the possible mitigations” amid another surge of COVID-19 infections. -
Blueroomstream.com/Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill into law Tuesday that repeals criminal penalties for people who transmit HIV to others.
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Some Illinois public universities are mandating vaccines. Community colleges are not, but they still have restrictions in place. -
A child poverty report released Monday shows major improvement in the last decade, but for kids in many rural pockets of the state, progress was less significant.
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It takes pay of more than $16.40 an hour for a full-time worker to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Bloomington-Normal and Peoria. That's according to a new report from Housing Action Illinois and the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
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The state’s higher education agencies released updated COVID-19 guidance Monday encouraging all public and private higher education institutions in Illinois to issue mandatory vaccine policies.
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Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker announced Monday he will seek a second term, joined once again by Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton as a running mate.
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After openly discussing the possibility, Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara say he has decided against a 2022 run for the seat in Illinois' 17th Congressional District.
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The commander of the Illinois National Guard says they will be forced to make major cutbacks if Congress doesn't reimburse them soon for the costs they incurred responding to the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Congressman Darin LaHood (R-IL) said COVID-19 vaccination rates remain low in many rural parts of his district. He said he does not know why rural...
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More than a year after new marijuana dispensary licenses were scheduled to be distributed per the state’s 2019 adult-use legalization law, the governor’s office announced the initial lottery and two new ones will happen by the end of August.
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Illinois Legislative Inspector General Carol Pope resigned from her job on Wednesday after more than two years in the role she called a “paper tiger” for what she said was its relative powerlessness.
