SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker and leaders of the Illinois House and Senate on Thursday announced agreement on a state spending plan that aims to fight nagging, near-record inflation by giving $1.8 billion back to taxpayers.
A video released Thursday shows a trooper pleading for a Madison County man to drop his weapon before that man is shot by police near the town of Pana.
County Executive Steve Ehlmann has asked the County Council to name a new 199-acre park near Wentzville after Benjamin Oglesby, a former slave who owned some of the old farm property for 30 years.
If signed into law, the bill would require health care facilities to allow patients to receive least one visitor, regardless of whether the governor has declared a public health-related disaster.
Solar farms require huge amounts of land, and there’s a fast-growing movement, fueled by politicized social-media campaigns, to prevent solar developers from permitting new sites in rural America.