A civil suit alleging that Illinois gambling and cannabis entrepreneur Jeff Rehberger Jr. raped a Highland girl when he was 17 and she was a 15-year-old minor has been moved from Chicago to Edwardsville.

A sharply divided City Council on Wednesday upheld Mayor Brandon Johnson’s veto of a Chicago ban on hemp-derived products, despite warnings that the unregulated products are endangering children.

Gov. JB Pritzker used part of his State of the State address Wednesday to launch one of his strongest proposals yet aimed at social media giants, calling for sweeping limits on youth access, a fee on the companies profiting from Illinois users, and a statewide push to remove cell phones from classrooms.

The State of Illinois is considering making a change to DUI law by lowering the blood alcohol limit from 0.08 to 0.05.

Zuley has ties to alleged coercion of suspects in Chicago and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. He testified as part of State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s effort to block Anthony Garrett’s bid for a retrial. Garrett was convicted of the boy’s murder.

Gov. JB Pritzker will propose a statewide zoning law in his State of the State address on Wednesday, drastically limiting the authority local governments have to control what types of housing structures can be built on land that’s zoned residential.