Monday, July 7, 2025
Lawmakers vote to decrease funding for housing programs by more than $14M.
This plan would require the Illinois Law Enforcement Training & Standards Board to teach police officers how to identify conflicts of interest and options to address those conflicts when officers know a sexual assault victim or the abuser.
A McHenry man who threatened to kill everyone at the McHenry County Courthouse and eat a judge’s face has been sentenced to probation, court records show.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has expanded its list of ZIP codes required to test for lead to include 180 new ZIP codes representing parts of 47 counties.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed a pair of health care-related bills that he said would put more controls on the pricing of pharmaceutical drugs sold through insurance plans while expanding insurance coverage for certain kinds of hospital costs.
Convinced her children were possessed by the devil, a Logan Square woman allegedly fatally stabbed her 4-year-old son 36 times and critically wounded her two other children before setting fire to their home Friday morning, Cook County prosecutors said.