SPRINGFIELD – For Illinois’ homeless populations and those that serve them, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a crisis — the volunteer, mostly faith-based shelters that had long…
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced the state of Illinois has been awarded $86 million in federal funding to strengthen the state’s public…
SPRINGFIELD – The state will reopen a mortgage assistance program for pandemic-impacted homeowners on Nov. 1. The Illinois Homeowner Assistance Fund, run through the Illinois Housing…
The state has updated testing requirements for school and childcare personnel, rescinding the requirement that unvaccinated employees in these sectors test twice weekly. This change…
Many medical professionals who volunteered for short-term deployment to a field hospital in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced high levels of secondary traumatic stress,…
SPRINGFIELD – Student test scores continued to fall last year but new data shows Illinois’ students are on the path to recovering from the learning loss that occurred during the…
SPRINGFIELD – A legislative panel on Tuesday, Oct. 18 objected to an emergency rule put forth by the Illinois Department of Public Health, with one member declaring, “The pandemic…
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois economy added 18,800 jobs during June as the unemployment rate fell to 4.5 percent, the lowest it has been since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That…
Growing Up X Exhibition opens ...
The Illinois State Museum (ISM) shines a spotlight on Generation X with ...
Pritzker names new director of ...
Natalie Phelps Finnie has been appointed director of the Illinois Department of ...
Wide-ranging health care law includes ...
SPRINGFIELD – A law recently signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker will extend ...
Giannoulias makes modernization push as ...
SPRINGFIELD – For newly sworn-in Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, customer service ...
