J.B. Pritzker

The minimum wage will increase to $12 an hour, FOID card renewals will be streamlined and public colleges and universities won’t be able to require standardized tests for admission.

Search and recovery efforts continued Saturday and were expected to take three additional days, said Edwardsville Fire Chief James Whiteford.

U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, on Tuesday announced he'll run for a sixth term in Congress, ending months of chatter about his possible entrance in the Republican primary to unseat Gov. JB Pritzker in 2022.

Lawmakers and EV companies, like Rivan Automotive, say the provisions in the new law are the next step in promoting Illinois as "the Silicon Valley of EVs."

“Masks, vaccines, and testing requirements are life-saving measures that keep our workplaces and communities safe," the governor said.

The mandate will cover 55,000 workers. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive order requires day care professionals submit to weekly COVID-19 testing until they are fully vaccinated.

The first hearing is set for Nov. 5 in Macoupin County.

But the three-judge federal court panel in Chicago declined to order a bipartisan redistricting commission be formed to redraw the maps.

The vaccine mandate applies to state employees, contractors and vendors who work in congregate facilities and certain health care workers, school personnel and higher education employees.

As Gov. JB Pritzker attempts to overhaul how the state reimburses nursing homes with Medicaid patients — a move they say will engender more accountability and equity — an unpublished report paints a complicated picture that neither fully bolsters Pritzker’s argument for an overhaul nor the resistance from the nursing home industry warning its cash-poor facilities will close en masse.