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CHICAGO — As another election approaches, the Illinois Republican Party and its allies are facing a conundrum — urging followers to cast ballots by mail while trying not to alienate followers of former President Donald Trump, who continues to insist that mail-in votes are “automatically corrupt.”

Rebuild Illinois has earmarked money for a river port in Cairo, extending a passenger rail line near Belleville, and helping developer Elzie Higginbottom erect an apartment building and hotel in Chicago’s Illinois Medical District.

If by “helping” Gov. J.B. Pritzker and others meant eliminating choices, they succeeded. Research shows that the PLPA made unsecured installment loans less available to subprime borrowers.

Four community leaders vie for City Council seats left open by the departures of longtime alderpersons Sawyer and Brookins.

Two years ago, at the urging of her teenage daughter, clinical psychologist Donna Marino ran for school board in far west suburban Oswego, Illinois, thinking her background in mental health could help students recover from the isolation, stress and trauma brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions taken…

Advocate Health is relaxing its pandemic rules on mask-wearing and patient visitation, but many hospitals are keeping their mask mandates.

The center, backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan, will research inflammation’s role in human diseases. Its funding includes $25 million in a capital grant from the state.

The former Illinois Tollway board member is new to the industry. But his Belmont Bank has been lending money for years to Rick Heidner, a giant in the business.

Three years ago, the hustle and bustle that is Chicago went silent.

Over the last six years, support for community-based violence prevention has swelled in Chicago. It started with a “really shocking and enormous” increase in shootings.

When Quentin Fulks went back home to Ellaville, Georgia, last year, people kept telling him how proud they were to watch a native son lead Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection bid