“The Governor is pleased that Illinois sportsbooks will open for business by March Madness, generating revenue to rebuild universities, hospitals and other facilities across the state.”

llinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act requires an entity to get express consent from a person before obtaining, storing, or using any of that person’s physical characteristics. Companies often work to avoid the potential liability by not offering certain services to customers in the state: innovation arbitrage.

SIU aims to have medical teams by summer at prisons in Lincoln and Pinckneyville and to add teams next year at two more lockups, which could provide answers for a troubled, $180 million-a-year medical program for 40,000 inmates, officials said Monday.

The trade dispute with China, a disease that halved its hog herd (and thus the demand for U.S. grains to feed them), and robust competition from South America all have had Illinois soybean farmers dealing with a reduction in demand.

“It disincentivizes contractors that use entry-level workers and therefore it kills what we’re doing from the Community Builders standpoint,” one contractor said.

Comment: No mention of Illinois as you’d expect, but the article says, “Taking their cues from states as diverse as Arizona and Virginia, they are shredding red tape at a remarkable clip, freeing their economies and providing a map for what’s needed at the federal level.”

The secretary of state’s office has a new searchable database online to show how much lobbyists spend wining and dining lawmakers, and for the first time it shows how many lobbyists are also elected officials at the local level.

“Decades of discussion and millions of wasted taxpayer dollars is enough. We don’t need an airport in Peotone. The growth and success of Chicago Rockford International Airport has more than made up for what an airport in Peotone was imagined to be.”