An Energy Authority’s report found the generators are more expensive to run than buying electricity from the open market, and offered details about the regulatory challenges the utility is facing.

Gov. JB Pritzker took questions from reporters Wednesday during an unrelated news conference.

The program, known as Connect Illinois, is part of the $45 billion capital infrastructure plan that the General Assembly passed last year.

The measure paves the way for local municipalities to contract with private firms to audit local businesses and state sales tax figures in hopes they’ll find a mistake. The firm takes a portion of the recovered revenue as payment.

A group representing convenience stores said it would make Illinois even more of an outlier compared to neighboring states

A 2015 bill to ban red-light cameras in some Illinois municipalities moved forward Wednesday shortly after a former state lawmaker pleaded guilty to taking bribes to protect a red-light camera operator.

“A quick GM-style bankruptcy that would replace ‘Old Illinois’ with ‘New Illinois,’ with help from the federal government, is unlikely to gain any traction…. But Porter’s solution has some interesting points that voters – and the people they elected – would do well to consider as Illinois circles the drain.”

Jesse White’s office is in charge of implementing not only the state’s automatic voter registration program, but also issuing federally-compliant REAL ID cards and a new database to cross-reference lobbyist registration and political donations.

Arroyo, who served in the Illinois House of Representatives for over a decade, faces up to 10 years in prison if he is found guilty.

The House is voting Thursday on the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act). The bill would make it easier for workers to certify unions, change how employers classify workers, prevent workers from being denied rights because of immigration status, eliminate state right-to-work laws, and block laws that protect employees from not paying union dues, among other measures.

A proposal in the Illinois General Assembly would prohibit right-to-work laws in Illinois, making Illinois the only state in the nation to ban the policy in a state constitution.

New data compiled by the ABC7 I-Team pegs Illinois as the most corrupt state in America; number one on the country’s corruption map. According to federal figures, there have been 891 convictions for public corruption in Illinois since the year 2000, the most in the nation.

A cannabis-infused chocolate bar purchased in Illinois’ capital city of Springfield might cost $25 before taxes. But after the state, city and county take a cut, the consumer would end up paying $33.19.

Many problems occurred over the weekend when the state shifted some 19,000 former foster children into its privatized “managed care” health coverage system. More problems may lie ahead as the state works to move approximately 17,000 current foster children into that same system.

A landmark lower court ruling that grants full pension benefits to the widow of a village firefighter who died in 2018 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. “The village maintains this decision sets a dangerous precedent for all property taxpayers; not only for those who live in Buffalo Grove, but for all taxpayers in Illinois,” Village Manager Dave Bragg wrote. “The implications for other cases to occur where legal standards are not met and causation is not proven could prove financially devastating to an already stressed pension system in the state of Illinois.”

“Because the south suburbs have been disproportionately affected by long-term inequity in education funding, it’s no surprise that region benefits from the grant program more than any other part of the state. Of the 39 school districts awarded grants through the Illinois State Board of Education, 20 are in the south suburbs. The Southland is home to nine of the top 10 recipients deemed most deserving of additional state resources, according to a state formula used to determine need.”