Local Government
Aubrey: Prisoner Review Board reform bill clears Senate
Updated from last year's bill, it aims to increase transparency of prisoner releases By JADE AUBREY Capitol News Illinois jaubrey@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - A bill that would reform the Prisoner Review Board passed the Illinois Senate on Thursday, aiming to protect victims and increase trans...
2h ago
Illinois Health & Family Services Dep. marks 60th year of Medicaid service as program future falls into question
2025 marks 60 years of the US's means-tested health insurance program, Medicaid. Medicaid, first envisioned as part of 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, has massively grown in importance for Americans living below the poverty line as US healthcare has uniquely ballooned in costs: roughly 3.4 million peo...
23h ago
Meisel: Sen. Jones sent spending money to former intern before getting him job feds say was a bribe
By HANNAH MEISEL Capitol News Illinois hmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO - Christopher Katz didn't question why he began receiving $300 weekly payments from an executive at Chicago-based red-light camera company SafeSpeed in the summer of 2019 - despite not yet having sat for a formal interview or done any work. ...
Apr 14, 2025
Brandhorst, et al.: 'Chilling silence': Waves of Illinois' international university students lose their visas
JACKSON BRANDHORST, BRIDGETTE FOX, MOLLY PARKER, JULIA RENDLEMAN & LYLEE GIBBS Capitol News Illinois Saluki Local Reporting Lab news@capitolnewsillinois.com The federal government has revoked the visas of some international students studying at universities across Illinois, but college administrators are sharing fe...
Apr 14, 2025
Szalinski: Legislature kills bill that would have expanded resentencing for youth offenders
By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois House shot down legislation Thursday that would have allowed some people incarcerated for crimes they committed when they were under 21 to become eligible for release. In a rare rebuke of a Democrat-sponsored bill, a bi...
Apr 13, 2025
Fox: Bill banning dwarfism slur as mascot passes House
By BRIDGETTE FOX Capitol News Illinois bfox@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - The House passed a bill Tuesday that would ban public schools from using mascots that discriminate against people with disabilities. The bill, if signed into law, currently would affect just one high school in St. Clair County. Freeburg ...
Apr 12, 2025
Szalinski: Senate OKs police hiring reform, Sangamon County recall in response to Sonya Massey's death
By BEN SZALINSKI Capitol News Illinois bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com SPRINGFIELD - The Sangamon County Sheriff's Office came under intense scrutiny after an unarmed Black woman was shot and killed by a deputy in her Springfield home in July 2024. The deputy charged with her murder, Sean Grayson, had a troubled emp...
Apr 12, 2025
Hundsdorfer: Trial of sheriff's deputy accused in shooting death of Sangamon County woman moved
By BETH HUNDSODRFER Capitol News Illinois bhundsdorfer@capitolnewsillinois.com The trial of a former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy accused of the murder of an unarmed Black woman in 2024 will be moved 85 miles north to Peoria County. A Sangamon County judge granted a motion Tuesday for a change of venue without an o...
Apr 08, 2025
