St. Louis-to-Chicago Amtrak route begins faster service
June 26, 2023CHICAGO — A trip from St. Louis to Chicago via Amtrak’s Lincoln Service will be about 15 minutes quicker starting this week due to track upgrades that allow for increased speeds….
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Consumer advocates, utilities spar over potential energy price hikes
June 23, 2023CHICAGO — Millions of Illinoisans could see higher energy bills next year, but the size of those increases will be determined by a state agency that has recently had its oversight…
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Pritzker acts to freeze noncitizen health care enrollment
June 22, 2023SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration wasted no time last week in exercising new authority granted by lawmakers to limit the number of enrollees in a pair of state-funded…
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Illinois expands use of police surveillance drones
June 20, 2023CHICAGO – Next time you attend a parade, there might be an eye in the sky. A new law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday expands local police departments’ authority to use drones…
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No relief in sight as drought conditions worsen
June 20, 2023The National Weather Service has officially designated many areas of northern Illinois and northwest and Indiana as being in a severe drought status. The region has received “significantly”…
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A behind-the-scenes tour of the $300 million state Capitol renovations
June 18, 2023SPRINGFIELD – Over the past year, construction workers inside the Illinois Statehouse have stripped most of the building’s north wing down to its bare bones and are now in the process…
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Health care workers who cover up patient abuse face stiffer penalties under new law
June 16, 2023This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Lee Enterprises, along with Capitol News Illinois. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a bill into…
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Jury convicts politically connected Chicago businessman of bribing lawmakers
June 15, 2023CHICAGO – It wasn’t quite “where’s the beef?” but when he stepped outside a suburban Wendy’s with a fellow lawmaker on a hot August morning in 2019, then-state Sen. Terry…
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Rauner’s portrait added to state Capitol’s ‘Hall of Governors’
June 12, 2023SPRINGFIELD – Former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s portrait has joined the “Hall of Governors” in the Illinois Capitol. The Winnetka Republican-turned-Florida resident on Monday, June…
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Pritzker signs into law first-in-the-nation block on book banning
June 12, 2023SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Monday that seeks to protect public and school libraries from pressure to ban, remove or restrict access to books based on “partisan…
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