“Walk by a jewelry store late at night and you’ll see a window with empty cases,” U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider said. “Because they know the high value of their product is attractive to thieves. It should be no different for a gun.”

This year marks the 25th anniversary of UIS offering online programs.

The ranking highlights Illinois’ commitment to providing innovative workforce programs, career training, and employment services that create resources for job seekers and ensure businesses continue to thrive.

“I bet a pound of catnip many owners that know how painful and inhumane this action is to cats,” Rep. Barbara Hernandez, the bill’s sponsor, said on Twitter.

The study measured a state’s affordability, quality of life and health care. WalletHub analyst Jill Gonzalez said Illinois wound up in the bottom 10 of the 50 states because of how its economy is made up.

The new hires will work with soil and water conservation districts across the state to walk through conservation practices on a one-to-one basis with farmers in their fields.

Attorney Jerry Stocks said because many sheriffs aren’t enforcing the new law citing constitutional concerns, there is a patchwork of compliance around the state. “We have chaos,” Stocks said.

The justices on Thursday ruled BIPA has an unequivocal five-year statute of limitations on all claims under the law – not a one-year window as employers and business groups had hoped for.

According to new figures from the Illinois Gaming Board, net terminal income — the amount of money put in minus the amount paid out — amounted to $2.71 billion in 2022, a 9.5 percent increase over 2021’s $2.47 billion. At the same time, the number of terminals grew by about 7.6 percent, from 41,826 at the end of 2021 to a hair over 45,000 a year later.

Along with adding statutory language for the state to divest from Russia and Belarus, Illinois’ HB 1293, signed into law in December 2022, includes several other provisions. Among them, state colleges and universities must disclose endowments and donations provided by Russian companies.

Said U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, “Given the significant growth of assets under management in funds that prioritize ESG factors, Congress has a duty to craft policies that provide investor protections and transparency of information to market participants.”

The new reality for the Democrats is that the Republicans control the House, which means Democrats lost seats on committees. U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley will be the top Democrat on the Appropriation subcommittee handling Transportation and Housing, giant matters for Chicago.

As director, she said major efforts will continue in rehabbing state parks, where the backlog in maintenance once topped $1 billion; It is down to $880 million, still far more than can be fixed in four years. Another idea she likes is to put the historical sites under the State Museum, so stories can be told accurately and completely.

Gov. JB Pritzker will need to appoint new trustees to fill two vacancies. The current make-up of the board now includes no one who lives in state Sen. Paul Faraci’s district, which includes the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, besides UIUC’s student trustee.

Fore the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2022.