The students who self-identify as the “ISU 7″ accuse Dean of Students Andrew Morgan of being a Zionist and infringing their First Amendment rights by “punishing the Plaintiffs for their pro-Palestinian protest.” In May the seven plaintiffs were arrested for tresspassing, suspended and barred from university housing and activities.

Legal gun sales in Illinois increased by 5 percent from 2022 to 2023, marking the second-largest increase in the nation, according to FBI data compiled by SafeHome.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, long believed to be a potential candidate to join Kamala Harris on the ticket, joked on ABC News that while Donald Trump “talks about all kinds of crazy stuff,” JD Vance is “getting known for his obsession with couches.”

Some Illinois schools will likely experience major shifts this school year as federal COVID relief funds end, district budgets get tighter, and students continue to recover from school disruptions during the height of the pandemic.

Under the law, it’s now a Class 4 felony to knowingly provide the wrong human remains to a family, and could bring one to three years in jail. The law also creates several new state regulations for funeral homes, including a requirement that human remains are tagged with a form of ID.

The initiative was lead by students from the Prairie School of DuPage .

According to Attorney General Kwame Raoul, the law prohibits the use of AI to create images depicting child sexual abuse that either involve real children or obscene imagery. It also separately prohibits the nonconsensual dissemination of certain sexual images generated by AI.

Algonquin Village President Debby Sosine said eliminating the grocery tax would cost Algonquin about $2 million in annual tax revenue “We don’t prefer to go into debt and have deficits, we cut our expenses,” she said. “We would have to cut our police, public works and staff and we would have to take our road and park projects and expand them out.”

“If someone else is delivering your ballot to the election authority they have to fill out the affidavit, they don’t have to do that if the post office is delivering it to us or if they’re utilizing a drop box, so there is a little bit of a loophole there,” Tazewell County Clerk and Recorder John Ackerman said.

Saying the state has trampled the free speech rights of business owners, a free market public policy advocacy organizations has petitioned a federal judge to strike down a new Illinois state law threatening employers with fines or other government action if they discuss politics or offer their perspective on union organizing efforts in their workplaces.

In granting the lawyers’ request for a preliminary injunction, Judge Andrea R. Wood found “a probable risk of irreparable harm from falling concrete attributed to the deteriorated masonry walls, ceilings, steel beams, and window lintels at Stateville; and a lack of an adequate remedy at law.”