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The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final flurry of legislative action this spring, the sponsor says.

A bill passed in this year’s legislative session would rewrite the definition of a “forcible felony” to allow Illinois State Police to use images obtained from automatic license plate readers in cases involving human trafficking and involuntary servitude.

Gov. JB Pritzker is preparing for Thursday’s House hearing on Illinois immigration policies with the help of Dana Remus, former White House counsel to President Biden. The governor can’t afford any missteps.

The hospital network plans to expand behavioral health services in Urbana, relocating cardiovascular surgeons and specialists to OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington.

Illinois lawmakers filed more than 7,500 bills this spring session, and 615 of them crossed the finish line. While most bills failed to escape legislative committees, there were some that got close to becoming reality.

Hundreds of workers will lose their jobs as Champaign-based Health Alliance plans to cease operations by the end of the year.

In the days following the end of the session, Illinois State Senator Dave Koehler of Peoria looked back at the tense spring session.

The school’s flagship campus, which has the second largest number of international students of all public universities in the country, could be hit hard by Trump’s plan to revoke Chinese student visas.

WGLT spoke to state Rep. Sharon Chung, a Democrat from Bloomington, about what got done and what didn't this spring.

A supplemental environmental impact statement filed this spring by Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will likely advance the operating license renewal request filed by Constellation Energy, owner of the Clinton nuclear power plant.