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Ex-GOP attorney general candidate temporarily loses law license over inappropriate relationshipSep 24, 2025 1:02 pm - The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered former Republican Illinois attorney general candidate Tom DeVore’s law license suspended for 60 days, following a yearslong public feud involving his client-turned-girlfriend and the state’s attorney discipline board.
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Nuclear power, battery storage funding at center of energy policy debateSep 22, 2025 1:32 pm - The long-running debate over energy policy is heating up ahead of lawmakers’ fall veto session. Lawmakers are considering loosening nuclear power regulations and incentivizing battery storage.
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Former Gov. Jim Edgar remembered with memorial at Illinois CapitolSep 20, 2025 11:02 am - A bipartisan crowd of dignitaries and family members bid farewell to former Gov. Jim Edgar at a memorial service held Saturday morning at Central Baptist Church in Springfield.
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Sale of central, Southern Illinois newspaper group puts new state law to the testSep 19, 2025 1:28 pm - A newspaper publisher in central and southern Illinois has sold its papers to a Kentucky-based company, testing a new state law designed to keep newspaper ownership local.
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Illinois among a growing list of states to issue their own vaccine guidelinesSep 19, 2025 11:16 am - Illinois is among a growing list of states that are issuing their own vaccine guidelines that could supersede those of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Amid backlash, Pritzker calls for leaders — especially Trump — to tone down rhetoricSep 15, 2025 5:55 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker said political leaders — starting with President Donald Trump — need to do more to condemn political violence.
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Under emergency rule, prisons begin scanning physical mailSep 13, 2025 4:00 am - The Illinois Department of Corrections has enacted an emergency rule change to prevent contraband from entering its prisons through letters and books sent to people in pr...
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Illinois among blue states to keep public health dollars while red states lose outSep 09, 2025 10:58 am - President Donald Trump’s administration sought to block $11 billion in public health funding grants in a March executive order. Illinois was among nearly a dozen Democrat-led states to file suit against the action. Those states won an injunction against the administration’s action in May, which allowed them to keep much of the funding that was slated for cuts.
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How an Illinois farmer turned flooded farmland into rice paddiesSep 09, 2025 10:09 am - One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains focused on soybeans and corn.
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Gun rights groups ask U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Cook County assault weapons banSep 06, 2025 4:00 am - Supreme Court petitioned to strike down Cook County assault rifle ban, hoping to overturn similar bans nationally. Comes after recent appeals court decision upholding ban, new Illinois law.