According to the Daily Illini, the school will use part of the “adversity score,” better known as the Environmental Context Dashboard (ECD), to better establish which high schools have fewer resources and will actively use that for admission decisions.

The bill, H.B. 3394, would have required Illinois companies to have at least one woman, an African-American and a Latino on their boards. But the version that passed the Senate dropped that requirement in favor of one mandating that publicly traded companies in Illinois report on their websites the demographics of their board and executive ranks as well as plans for promoting diversity in the workplace. The bill, which is now on its way to the Governor’s desk, also requires an annual report card on Illinois companies’ diversity that will be published by the University of Illinois.

Oh, the impudence of those cheese-heads. First they took our companies, now they’re looking forward to our new gambling expansion as a chance to bet against our teams.

300 bills sailed under the radar as lawmakers passed a flurry of legislation in the frantic waning days of the Illinois General Assembly’s spring legislative session that wrapped up Sunday.

Some are skeptical because past projections have been wrong.

Citing Wirepoints’ research. “The last state to adopt a progressive income tax was Connecticut in 1996, and we know how that turned out. Now Democrats in Illinois want to follow Connecticut down the elevator shaft with a referendum replacing the state’s flat 4.95% income tax with progressive rates they will set later. This is a classic liberal bait-and-switch—vote now on a promise to fix a fiscal mess, pay later as the fiscal mess gets worse.”

“Now we have to wait and see what our wacky Illinois courts do with this new and shocking concept,” said Keefe, one of the state’s most experienced workers’ compensation defense lawyers.

“And like the state’s last gambling expansion, in 2009, the massive new bill could bring trouble.”

“Unfortunately, Illinois is definitely not back. Its future is as bleak as ever. The state remains effectively bankrupt, its financial situation exacerbated (if that’s possible) by the tax and spending spree the Legislature just wrapped up. Nothing the Legislature did is going to change that.”

A republication of our Wirepoints article.