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SPRINGFIELD - The details of the pension reform proposal Illinois lawmakers will be presented with in the coming days are crystallizing, but what remains unclear is whether the changes will attract enough support to become law.
State Rep. Elaine Ne...
Updated: May 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM
As a child, Michael Alter said he was a struggling student, due to dyslexia. His third grade teacher even told his parents that “not every boy will go to Harvard” and “the world needs more garbage men.” His parents waited until A...
Updated: May 28, 2012 at 08:15 AM
SPRINGFIELD — Legislation that would allow people to record the public activities of police officers has stalled, because the sponsoring senator opposes the House’s changes to the measure.
Sen. Michael Noland won’t call a vote for the so-called eav...
Updated: May 26, 2012 at 05:27 PM
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House approved a proposal Friday to raise the price of cigarettes by $1 a pack in an effort to grab money from smokers to pay for the state’s rising costs for health care for the poor.
The proposal, approved 60-52, is part...
Updated: May 27, 2012 at 07:18 AM
SPRINGFIELD — Hundreds of thousands of people would see their health care cut back or even eliminated under legislation approved Thursday by Illinois lawmakers in a desperate attempt to shore up the state's crumbling budget.
The Medicaid cuts includ...
Updated: May 25, 2012 at 04:28 PM
SPRINGFIELD — As part of a greater package deal to try to cut the state’s Medicaid costs, Illinois lawmakers Thursday sent Gov. Pat Quinn a plan that could let Cook County enroll 100,000 more people in the program in 2014 to try to save the county m...
Updated: May 24, 2012 at 11:22 PM
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The Level 8 girls’ team from Ultimate Gymnastics of Gurnee is celebrating after finishing up the season with some notable successes at the Region 5 regional competition.
Representing Illinois, the girls traveled to Bour...
Updated: May 25, 2012 at 11:03 AM
SPRINGFIELD — Months after its initial proposal and just a day after the NATO summit that made the law a national issue, a plan to allow civilians to take video recordings of police officers was approved by the Illinois House.
The proposal woul...
Updated: May 23, 2012 at 02:47 PM
SPRINGFIELD — Months after its initial proposal and just a day after the NATO summit that made the law a national issue, a plan to allow citizens to take video recordings of police officers was approved by the Illinois House.
The proposal would...
Updated: May 23, 2012 at 02:47 PM
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House has approved a proposal to allow people to audio record police officers and others in public.
The 71-45 vote came after Rep. Elaine Nekritz appeased police concerns that recordings could be manipulated and used agai...
Updated: May 22, 2012 at 03:50 PM