State and Region News
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Ex-trooper seeks to regain driving privileges nearly 16 years after fatal crash
Sep 14, 2023 4:25 PM - For years, former Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White blocked attempts by an ex-state trooper to regain his driving privileges after a high-speed crash that caused the deaths of teenage sisters on a busy St. Clair County interstate in 2007. But after White's retirement, Matt Mitchell is taking another shot. -
'Thunderdomes of controversy and strife:' Giannoulias testifies about Illinois' effort to block book bans
Sep 14, 2023 3:46 PM - Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias was in Washington, D.C., this week to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee regarding a new state law aimed at deterring book bans. -
House speaker's staff could test limits of Workers' Rights Amendment
Sep 14, 2023 3:46 PM - Efforts by staff members in House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch's office to form a union could provide an early and unexpected test of the new Workers' Rights Amendment to the Illinois Constitution. -
State fair reports nine-year attendance high
Sep 13, 2023 4:03 PM - The state Department of Agriculture reported on Tuesday that about 708,000 people attended the Illinois State Fair, an 11% increase from 2022. -
Copay requirements paused for noncitizens on state health plan
Sep 12, 2023 4:48 PM - The state has paused a new policy requiring certain noncitizens enrolled in a Medicaid-like health insurance plan to pay copayments for certain services, instructing health care providers to refund any such payments they have already collected. -
Why are drivers so angry in Illinois? Report puts state in top 10 for road rage
Sep 10, 2023 8:25 AM - How angry are Illinois drivers? Fortunately, not as livid as Arizona motorists, who earned the dubious honor of first in the nation for road rage, according to a new Forbes Advisor study. But the Prairie State did rank eighth in the U.S. for confrontational driving, based on a survey of 10,000 people.
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Battery manufacturing plant coming to Manteno -- with $530M incentive deal
Sep 8, 2023 5:08 PM - A new battery manufacturing plant is set to open in northern Illinois next year after the state offered more than $330 million in tax incentives to make it happen. -
Pier collapses on University of Wisconsin campus. One hospitalized, 20 others slightly injured
Sep 5, 2023 2:31 PM - Part of a pier where dozens of University of Wisconsin students and others were celebrating Labor Day collapsed into a lake, leaving one person hospitalized and slightly injuring about 20 others, officials said.
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Illinois leaders call on Biden to let state sponsor migrant workers
Aug 30, 2023 6:37 PM - Elected officials and business leaders in Illinois are calling on President Joe Biden to ease work restrictions for asylum-seekers and other long-term undocumented workers -- a move they say is both humane and would help solve ongoing labor shortages. -
State leaders announce mental health grant program for farm groups
Aug 29, 2023 5:19 PM - Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Tuesday that chapters of FFA -- the group once known as National FFA Organization -- will be eligible for $1,000 grants to fund mental health awareness programs in schools and rural communities. Up to 20 such grants will be available through the Illinois FFA Foundation starting this fall.
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