A bipartisan pair of former high-level officials from President Barack Obama’s administration on Tuesday began their public push to stop state lawmakers from directly drawing their own district boundaries, a change they argue would mean more competitive elections and a General Assembly that better represents the will of the voters.

It bans anyone from denying a child a free public education based on their citizenship or immigration status.

According to the text of Illinois HB 1226, drivers who are 79 years or older will be required to renew their driver’s license in person. Previously, the age for drivers to have that requirement had been 75, according to Illinois law.

A new lawsuit wants to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to stop shorting up to 1.7 million veterans out of their GI Bill benefits, after a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision expanded their ability to claim the education benefits.

Attorney General Kwame Raoul moved Monday to block President Donald Trump’s administration from stripping Illinois and other states in the president’s immigration doghouse of millions of dollars in federal funding for crime victims.

The governor signed 266 laws on Friday, moving closer to finalizing his part in approving — or rejecting — over 430 laws sent to him by lawmakers this spring.

A new state law will empower schools to punish students who use artificial intelligence to bully other kids The law will ban students from using a digital replica to bully one of their peers and asking an AI algorithm to create explicit images of students.

A local group is filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service that aims to block a proposed 70-acre logging project in the Bell Smith Springs area of Southern Illinois.