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The governor’s top advisers say Pritzker’s new spending plan keeps the state on track to end in the black for back-to-back years for the first time in 25 years. But state House GOP Leader Jim Durkin said, "The governor’s budget address is always a wish-list, and this year it’s clear…

Newman’s campaign cash was used for payments to a law firm connected to an ongoing ethics probe and for high salary payments to the congressional candidate who figures at the center of the case.

Illinois logged another 6,664 COVID-19 cases on Monday – the lowest daily caseload in seven weeks. Hospitalizations and the number of deaths from the virus also dropped yet again. But that encouraging news was tempered a bit by a report of the first case of the Omicron subvariant in Illinois.

CHICAGO - Tras más de 1,200 días en prisión preventiva por el asesinato de Laquan McDonald, el ex policía de Chicago Jason Van Dyke está a punto de volver a casa.

CHICAGO — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s reelection-year budget proposal on Wednesday will dangle the prospect of delivering relief on food, gasoline and property taxes to Illinois voters in a spending plan buoyed by an improved state financial outlook and federal coronavirus relief.

CHICAGO — After more than 1,200 days in custody for the murder of Laquan McDonald, former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke is about to go home.

Prison reform advocates say historically, there have been long waiting lists for virtually every program to help inmates better themselves.

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