Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Small clinics and hospitals are drowning in denied and delayed claims from Illinois Medicaid managed care organizations. To cope, some have stopped accepting Medicaid altogether. Meanwhile, MCOs see increasing profits, but aren’t meeting patient care metrics.
A new organization hopes to improve the justice system experience for victims of crime in McLean County.
When Chicago police responded to a shots-fired call at Riis Park in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on a May afternoon, witnesses told them a young man standing next to a scooter had fired a gun onto the park’s football field.
A new law will require the Illinois State Board of Education to identify days where major school events may conflict with cultural or religious holidays.
Longtime Chicago lobbyist Jay Doherty was sentenced Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for his role in a yearslong bribery scheme between his biggest client, electric utility Commonwealth Edison, and former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Republican attorney Tim Bass of Paloma officially announced his campaign to be the next at-large circuit judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois.
A new Illinois law could help address the shortage of emergency vehicle drivers across the state.