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Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th), chair of the City Council’s Committee on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said Deputy Chief of Staff Cristina Pacione-Zayas told him late last month of the city’s plan to, as she put it, “right-size” the migrant shelter system without offering details.

With Chicago temperatures expected to dip to dangerous lows, Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants migrant dropoffs from Texas to stop.

The 273 new charging spots statewide add onto Illinois’ current network of 1,249 public stations.

More than 11 million Illinois taxpayers who claim the standard exemption each year will not see an inflation-indexed bump for the 2023 tax year.

In 2016 and 2020, before the Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump did sign the no-longer mandatory oath. “Why wouldn’t he sign it?” says ex-U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who was on the House Jan. 6 select committee.

Five people working with a voting rights organization filed an objection, making Illinois the 18th state challenging Donald Trump over his ties to the 2021 insurrection.

Heidi Mueller, who has served as director of the Illinois Dept. of Juvenile Justice since 2016, was selected after a national search. She will take the reins of the scandal-plagued agency beginning February 1.

Even if you don’t need to diet or exercise more, there’s still an important resolution you can make for 2024.

Primary meddling, dark money and self-funding loopholes help skew Illinois politics to favor moneyed candidates. But there are also solutions — like fighting big money with public funding of campaigns.

Organized labor and the business community are demanding far more robust infrastructure spending, while the governor’s people point to very real cost considerations for consumers.

Teresa Haley apologized Thursday, two days after comments she made surfaced in a video from a recent conference call of NAACP leaders.