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JB Pritzker released a 200-point policy plan that he wants the new Democrat-controlled Congress to take up. The plan is aimed at reversing many Trump administration policies that Pritzker believes harms Illinois.

Illinois’ constitutional offices will all remain in Democratic hands, though the state will have a new U.S. senator and state comptroller.

Tazewell County voters Tuesday once again defeated a 1% school facilities sales tax referendum. The measure lost 55% to 45%. The tax was previously rejected by Tazewell County voters in 2018 and 2019.

BJC HealthCare announced in October that it is dropping its participation at the end of this year in the Medicare Advantage plans offered by insurers Aetna and Anthem. That includes TRAIL, the state of Illinois’ Aetna-administered Medicare Advantage health insurance program for eligible state, teacher and community college retirees.

Incumbent Gov. JB Pritzker has leaned into his business background during his nearly eight years in office while flexing the levers of government to incentivize companies to relocate to or expand their footprint in Illinois.Republican nominee Darren Bailey, on the other hand, favors a laissez-faire approach focusing on less state spending and lower tax rates.

An Oct. 19 fatal fire at Fuji Super Spa in Cahokia Heights led to the federal arrest of Quentin Hanks, who investigators say lit the parlor on fire because he was dissatisfied with the sexual service he’d paid for.

A federal judge in Benton sentenced two people to two years in prison each for their roles in running five illicit massage businesses that offered commercial sex services in southern Illinois and Indiana; three of the massage parlors have reopened under new ownership after being shut down.

Soybean processing plants have a documented history of explosions because of leaked Hexane, a flammable substance. ADM itself identified in 1997 a scenario similar to what preceded an explosion in September 2023.

Consumer and environmental groups carried over 10,000 public comments through the streets of Chicago on Thursday before hand delivering them to the Illinois Commerce Commission.

A Sangamon County judge found Department of Children and Family Services Director Heidi Mueller in contempt of court for failing to comply with his June order to produce records and pay court mandated fees.