Auditors wrote that DCFS took between 431-906 days to inform schools about investigations of abuse and neglect when state law requires notification within 10 days. DCFS also waited 218-290 days to report cases of infants testing positive for drugs to law enforcement. “What we have here is an audit of an agency that takes its responsibility so lightly that we’re leaving abused and neglected children in our wake,” Rep. Steve Reick said. “This cannot be allowed to stand.”

State Rep. Bill Hauter said workers have been leaving the state to find work in other places due to waiting for licenses. “This is costing patients their care, their suffering and it is costing Illinois its highly trained professionals.”

“I’m not a quitter,” said Daphne Williams, of Smarty Pants Early Learning Center. “If I have to cut corners and lower tuition a little bit, I will.” Williams, a mother herself, said that’s because she’s knows the alternative will impact working women the hardest.

A new report ranks Illinois first among 11 Midwestern states for the amount of clean power capacity under construction, and second for new clean power capacity. The American Clean Energy Association said wind, solar, and energy storage plants currently provide almost 14% of the electricity produced in Illinois.

Jonathan Turley: “Krishnamoorthi did not challenge my analysis. He attacked me personally. In a truly bizarre moment, Krishnamoorthi denounced me as a defender of a criminal child molester and polygamist.”

In 2019, Gov. J.B. Pritzker enacted a measure consolidating about 650 first responder pension funds into a fund for police and a separate one for firefighters. A challenge to the consolidation has been in state court ever since to determine the constitutionality of combining the funds.

Oguzhan Dincer, an economist at Illinois State University and the director of the university’s Institute for Corruption Studies, said, “…(W)hen voter participation goes up, corruption goes down…When Rod Blagojevich ran for his second term in Illinois, everybody was complaining about how corrupt he was, and voter participation was only about 40 percent. When more than half of the people don’t even bother voting, politicians know it, right? They think, ‘Hey, I’m invincible.'”

The study shows that while real estate taxes can be over $10,000 for homes in California, the taxes paid in Illinois are significantly higher when compared to median home values.

The state said it will run one shelter and the governor’s office also stated that they had plans for a shelter dating back to the Lightfoot administration, but the city didn’t take the state up on its offer until a few weeks ago.

The complaint filed by the SEC accuses former CEO Anne Pramaggiore of participating in, and at some points, directing a bribery scheme, which involved bribing the former House Speaker to pass legislation favorable to ComEd.