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New program aims to provide seniors with home-based alternative to nursing facility care

“Here in Illinois, we recognize that our elders thrive when they remain in our communities as they age,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. “The PACE program is an innovative model that delivers a much-needed alternative to traditional nursing facility care.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Immigration advocates sue LexisNexis over personal data

Immigration advocates are accusing the data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions of violating Illinois law by collecting and combining extensive personal information and selling it to third parties including federal immigration authorities

The Independent UK

Ascend Wellness Revenue Increases Sequentially Capitalizing On Adult Use Cannabis Sales In New Jersey

Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: AAWH) (CSE: AAWH.U) released its financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, revealing gross revenue increased 16.2% quarter-over-quarter and increased 20.7% year-over-year, to $117.7 million.

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Editorial: Asking other states to help Missouri rape victims should highlight GOP’s cruelty here

It has come to this: Missouri Democrats recently reached out to Illinois and Kansas officials, asking them to secure Medicaid funding for low-income Missouri rape victims who have to travel out of state for abortion services due to Missouri’s extreme new abortion ban. It’s a chilling reminder that Missouri has…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eric Sorensen and Esther Joy King are running for Illinois’ 17th Congressional District on November 8, 2022

Eric Sorensen (D) and Esther Joy King (R) are running in the general election for Illinois’ 17th Congressional District on November 8, 2022. Incumbent Rep. Cheri Bustos (D) is not running for re-election.

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Chicago-based Weigel takes over IHSA football, basketball state finals broadcasts

Weigel Broadcasting announced Monday that it will take over production of the Illinois High School Association’s football and basketball state finals television broadcasts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Six Flags shooting victims were a boy, 17, and a woman, 19, officials say

Gurnee, Illinois, police released new details overnight related to the shooting outside the Six Flags theme park in Gurnee Sunday, which left three people injured, two of them suffering gunshot wounds.

Chicago Tribune

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Murals help kick up interest in Route 66 towns

Edwardsville has a historic theater, Collinsville a giant catsup bottle and East St. Louis its jazz, all Americana from the glory days of Route 66.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Murals help kick up interest in Route 66 towns

Edwardsville has a historic theater, Collinsville a giant catsup bottle and East St. Louis its jazz, all Americana from the glory days of Route 66.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Commentary: Politicians have failed to deal with gun violence. Give medical officials a chance

The past three months have seen mass shootings of schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, and July Fourth celebrants in Highland Park, Illinois. Cries for greater gun control to stop such avoidable, premature deaths grow after each event. President Joe Biden recently signed a gun control measure into law, but overall, little…

Chicago Tribune

I’m an experienced doctor. Let me practice medicine and provide care for those who need it.

Illinois and the U.S. should remove barriers that make it hard for foreign-trained doctors to practice medicine here.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois announces six-year program to invest $34.6 billion in transportation, infrastructure

Much of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s funding for this program is coming from the state’s $45 billion Rebuild Illinois Capital Plan but almost $16 billion more is expected to come in from the federal government.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cook County back down to medium COVID-19 risk level, but hospitalizations and deaths high across Illinois

The risk level was downgraded because Cook County’s case rate has fallen below the threshold of 200 cases per 100,000 residents for the last week — but just barely so.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bally’s play for long-awaited Chicago casino now up to state regulators — but hopes to open temporary site next year face long odds

Bally’s has filed its application with the Illinois Gaming Board seeking approval for a $1.7 billion riverfront casino-resort. The city is hoping a temporary casino can open by next summer. But the board has up to a year to review the application, with the possibility of an extension beyond that.

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Federal Judge Holds Illinois Prison System in Contempt for Inadequate Medical Care

A court monitor's report found evidence of neglect and abuse of dementia patients, including signing "do not resuscitate" orders that they could not understand.

USA Today Sports Media Group

This Illinois disc golf tournament has grown into one of the year’s biggest events

It's part tournament, part festival — presenting the largest purse in the history of the sport ($130,000) in 2021.

Chicago Tribune

Climate change is turning air conditioning into a matter of life and death. But government help is lacking

CHICAGO — If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again.

WEKU

Abortion is legal in Illinois. In Wisconsin, it's nearly banned. So clinics teamed up

After Wisconsin left an 1849 near-total abortion ban in place, some providers began commuting to Illinois to treat patients. These Planned Parenthood partnerships could be a model for the future.

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Pritzker: Bailey owes apology to Holocaust survivors for ‘offensive’ comparison to abortion

Pritzker also called on more Republicans to speak out against the comments. “Why can’t Republicans just stand up and say what Darren Bailey said was wrong?” Pritzker asked. “Why can’t they do that?”

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois, feds must take steps to keep invasive carp out of Great Lakes

The Brandon Road Lock and Dam project near Chicago is needed to prevent carp from wreaking ecological and economic havoc on the country’s largest source of fresh water.

Chicago Sun-Times

Why the crush of pink salmon now? Karre Cromwell catches second pending Illinois record in a month

For the second time in less than a month, an Illinois angler caught a pending Illinois record pink salmon. What is going on?

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois gearing up for significant investment in EV charging network along highways

The federal government will be delivering $5 billion over the next five years across the country — with Illinois receiving over $148 million — so states can build out electric vehicle charging infrastructure to support climate-friendly modes of transportation.

Chicago Sun-Times

We must support our teachers, just like they support our children

The start of the new school year is an opportunity to recommit ourselves to those efforts. A recent report by the Illinois State Board of Education found roughly 5,300 unfilled positions at Illinois schools, including more than 1,000 openings at CPS.

Daily Record

Mum executed in front of two-year-old as she picked him up from babysitter

Beverly Lambert, 25, was killed after being shot in the head twice by a teenager in the American state of Illinois on 4 August.

Chicago Tribune

In wake of Highland Park massacre, law on firearms restraining orders in Illinois seen as confusing and underused

CHICAGO — A group of law enforcement officials and experts from around Illinois and across the country gathered in mid-June to begin crafting a plan to increase awareness among the general public and fellow cops of a 3-year-old state law aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of potentially…

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