Carlile said on the county party's Facebook page on Thursday that the committeeman admitted to the interaction with Ward 8 candidate Teresa Tran and resigned before Carlile could ask him to do so.

Warren did say however that the Bears will be taking their time to make sure they get the new Stadium right.

The state will instead follow policy it adopted earlier this year that is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which calls for all children to receive the MMR, flu, COVID-19 and hepatitis shots.

Board members voted 19-6 against the proposal.

A Ward 4 resident shared with the Springfield City Council during Tuesday's Committee of the Whole meeting details of her experience being displaced from her home the past 16 months after a company contracted by the city of Springfield reportedly caused the property to flood with blackwater.

During a Tuesday morning ceremony at the Executive Mansion, Governor JB Pritzker signed an executive order renaming the structure as the Governor Jim Edgar Executive Office Building.

Pritzker said at an agriculture event in McLean County that Indiana Governor Mike Braun claimed he is bringing the Bears to the Hoosier State as a re-election ploy, but Pritzker does not believe that is happening.

He's signed over 350 of the nearly 400 bills that lawmakers sent his way, leaving him with about 20 more to consider in short order.

That's a $350 million increase over last year. Despite the increase, however, fewer districts will be funded at or above 90 percent of their adequacy target. And the adequacy gap in school funding will grow to $6.8 billion dollars.

One of the members purportedly named to the group, Representative Kelly Cassidy of Chicago, issued a statement Wednesday saying she would not participate in the working group because she was not assured that the effort was merely for public relations.