Articles filed under Capitol News Illinois
-
State budget talks enter final week amid fears of congressional cutsMay 25, 2025 4:06 pm - With the state budget deadline looming, Illinois lawmakers are grappling with falling revenues and possible federal cuts that could drastically impact health care and other key programs.
-
Lawmakers tried to reform Illinois’ food system. Here’s why it failedMay 24, 2025 1:39 pm - Of all the food consumed in Illinois, 95% of it comes from outside the state. House Bill B3701 and Senate Bill 2187 would have significantly changed state food procurement practices. However, state lawmakers did not pass the bills before a key legislative deadline in April.
-
Lawmakers pass bills on AI community college instruction, food handling, school bus seat beltsMay 24, 2025 4:00 am - Lawmakers approved measures limiting AI instruction at community colleges, requiring seat belts on school buses, and mandating food handlers receive certain allergen trai...
-
Responding to Supreme Court, lawmakers look to expand lawsuit protections for pressMay 23, 2025 7:37 pm - Illinois lawmakers are seeking to extend lawsuit protections to regular news reports following a recent ruling by the state’s Supreme Court that allowed a defamation suit against the Chicago Sun-Times to progress.
-
Illinois lawmakers push to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighter gear due to cancer riskMay 21, 2025 9:17 am - A bill to ban the sale of firefighter protective gear containing “forever chemicals” is gaining momentum in the Illinois General Assembly, as lawmakers, union leaders and firefighters themselves warn that the very equipment designed to save lives may be silently endangering them.
-
Native ancestors’ return to rest: A paperwork-laden process underway in IllinoisMay 19, 2025 6:49 pm - Two of the country’s largest collections of Native American human remains are held by museums in Illinois. To the director of one of the museums, the work to rebury those remains at the behest of a tribal nation or send them to the tribe is an emotional process necessary for correcting historic wrongs — but it also includes a lot of bureaucratic paperwork that can take months to years to process.
-
Lawmakers seek to reverse Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott IsraelMay 17, 2025 5:35 pm - A growing number of state lawmakers are moving to repeal a 2015 Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott Israel to protest its policies toward Palestinians.
-
After 150 years, Mary Lincoln’s ‘madness’ still haunts American psycheMay 17, 2025 4:41 pm - The subject of Mary Lincoln’s mental health has long been the subject of public debate. Now, 150 years after her commitment, a newly rediscovered collection of correspondence between the widow of the former president who had been assassinated and her friends and family shed new light on the nature of her illness as well as the nature of her relationships with the few friends and family she had left by that time.
-
State on track to end health coverage program for immigrant adultsMay 17, 2025 4:00 am - Illinois to end health coverage for 30,000 non-citizen immigrants due to budget constraints, though proposed Congressional Medicaid cuts could have even bigger impact.
-
Illinois seeks to prevent feds from tying funding for states to immigration enforcementMay 17, 2025 4:00 am - Illinois AG sues Trump administration over policies tying grant funding to immigration enforcement participation.