Regional & State News
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Measure excludes certain tax-exempt entities after negotiations
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Department of Corrections officials lay out closure, rebuild timeline to lawmakers
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A Cook County Circuit Court jury this week ordered OSF HealthCare and other health providers to pay $41 million in a malpractice lawsuit.
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The Pritzker Administration is trying to push through different revenue plans in the final weeks of the session. If those are unsuccessful, a letter to agency directors says there could be about $800 million less to spend.
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Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley identified her Friday. He says 20-year-old Hailey Parks of Jacksonville was visiting relatives in the area.
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Delays and other problems with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form and what it means for students looking to pay for college.
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Services now in three agencies to be consolidated under one roof
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A publishing company whose politically slanted newspapers have been derided as “pink slime” is being sued by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul for illegally identifying birthdates and home addresses of “hundreds of thousands” of voters.
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The Fourth District Appellate Court is upholding the 18-month prison sentence Jeffrey Reinking received for illegally returning to his son an AR-15 Bushmaster rifle that he later used in a Tennessee mass shooting that left four people dead.
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But admin’s letter to agency directors serves parallel purpose of warning lawmakers
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State officials kicked off the private renovation of the building which once served as the state government’s Chicago headquarters.
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As state lawmakers hold hearings targeting the role of pharmacy benefit managers – an influential arm in how the health insurance industry prices prescription drugs – multiple state agencies are considering how to better regulate the industry.