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CDC’s new COVID guidance drops requirements for exposure quarantines in Illinois schools

August 13, 2022 — by Muddy River News

SPRINGFIELD – With new guidance from the CDC that addresses the need to keep students in classrooms while protecting residents from COVID-19, the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois State Board of Education announced in a Friday press release they are adopting new operational guidance for schools and early education from the CDC that eases some restrictions […]

Filed Under: Illinois Politics Tagged With: CDC, Illinois Department of Public Health, Illinois State Board of Education

Pritzker announces $34.6 Billion transportation investment over six years

August 13, 2022 — by JERRY NOWICKI, CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Department of Transportation on Friday laid out a $34.6 billion six-year spending plan for road, bridge, transit, rail, airport and port upkeep.

Filed Under: Illinois Politics, Politics Tagged With: IDOT, Illinois Department of Transportation, JB Pritzker

Illinois State Fair underway

August 12, 2022 — by CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS

The theme of the 2022 fair and butter cow is “Grow with Us” and the fair was officially underway Thursday night with the Twilight Parade along Sangamon Avenue into the Fairgrounds on Springfield’s North Side.

Filed Under: Illinois Politics, Politics Tagged With: Butter Cow, Illinois State Fair

Pritzker eying Indiana firms after abortion law signed; Eli Lilly says it will look to expand outside Hoosier State

August 10, 2022 — by PETER HANCOCK, Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD – Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said this week he is actively reaching out to businesses in Indiana and other states that have recently passed restrictive abortion laws in hopes of luring those companies to Illinois. “Well, already I’ve reached out to companies that are affected in Indiana. I want to make sure that they […]

Filed Under: Illinois Politics Tagged With: Abortions in Illinois, Eli Lilly, Gov. JB Pritzker, Illinois Right to Life

Bailey blasts end of cash bail

August 10, 2022 — by Capitol News Illinois

The Illinois Supreme Court Pretrial Implementation Task Force has been in the process of breaking down several aspects of the SAFE-T Act as Illinois approaches 2023.

Filed Under: Illinois Politics, Politics Tagged With: cash bail, Darren Bailey

Grain Belt Express promises to follow eminent domain law, but agriculture groups skeptical

August 7, 2022 — by Matthew McFarland, Missouri Times

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — After a strongly worded demand from all of the Missouri agriculture community, the Grain Belt Express has agreed to follow the eminent domain law passed this past session as it builds its Tiger Connector line through Audrain, Callaway, and Monroe Counties. The Farm Bureau called out Invenergy, the owner of the Grain Belt […]

Filed Under: Missouri State Government Tagged With: Grain Belt Express, Missouri Public Service Commission

Missouri Democrats hope Kansas, Illinois will help pay for out-of-state residents’ abortions

August 7, 2022 — by Tessa Weinberg, Missouri Independent

Missouri’s top Democratic lawmakers have yet to receive a formal response to letters urging governors in Kansas and Illinois to help pay for abortions for out-of-state Medicaid patients, though a Kansas lawmaker said it is highly unlikely given Republican dominance of the state’s legislature. In letters sent Wednesday and first reported by the Associated Press, House […]

Filed Under: Missouri State Government Tagged With: abortions in Missouri, Crystal Quade, Dinah Sykes, John Rizzo

Regulatory work behind push for 1 million electric vehicles in full swing in Illinois

August 6, 2022 — by JERRY NOWICKI, Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD – Ten months after Illinois lawmakers passed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act which set a goal of putting 1 million electric vehicles on state roads by the end of the decade, state agencies are engaged in a flurry of regulatory planning aimed at meeting those goals. The effort to electrify the state’s transportation sector and ensure the […]

Filed Under: Illinois Politics Tagged With: Electric vehicles

Illinois Attorney General’s Office: “Adams County has acknowledged that its closed session discussions…were improper” 

August 5, 2022 — by J. Robert Gough, Publisher

QUINCY — The Illinois Attorney General’s office has received the recordings of the closed sessions of the Adams County Board and Finance Committee meetings for May and acknowledged the board’s actions were “improper”.

Filed Under: Politics, Top Stories Tagged With: Barney Bier, Bret Austin, Illinois Attorney General, Josh Jones, Kent Snider, Kwame Raoul

10-day sales tax reduction on clothing, school supplies begins Friday in Illinois

August 4, 2022 — by JERRY NOWICKI, Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD – Beginning Friday and lasting through Aug. 14, the state will reduce its sales tax rate from 6.25 percent to 1.25 percent for certain clothing items costing less than $125 and school supplies. The “tax holiday” was included in Gov. JB Pritzker’s “family relief plan,” one prong of several bills making up the Fiscal […]

Filed Under: Illinois Politics Tagged With: Gov. JB Pritzker, Illinois sales tax

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QUINCY — The second time was the charm. In 2020, The City of Quincy Quincy applied for a $1.03-million IDOT grant to help pay for the Sixth Street Promenade, but it was rejected. But today, Governor JB Pritzker announced that Quincy was of several communities to receive part of $215 million … ...Read Full Article about Quincy’s Sixth Street Promenade to get $2.4 million state Main Street grant; Pittsfield getting $2.8 million for work on Monroe Street

Tribune report shows six of 10 Illinoisans drinking tap water with toxic chemicals; Conte says chemicals found in Quincy but don’t pose serious threat

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QUINCY — A recent investigation by the Chicago Tribune says more than 8 million people in the state — 6 out of every 10 Illinoisans — are drinking tap water with toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body. Recent testing by the … ...Read Full Article about Tribune report shows six of 10 Illinoisans drinking tap water with toxic chemicals; Conte says chemicals found in Quincy but don’t pose serious threat

QU adds fraternity, sorority; university hopes to raise $175,000 to upgrade houses on 18th Street

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QUINCY — People driving north on 18th Street past Quincy University in the past week may have noticed fresh paint and other modifications to the houses that make up the school’s Greek Row. Through a donation of $25,000, QU has started the first phase of a remodeling … ...Read Full Article about QU adds fraternity, sorority; university hopes to raise $175,000 to upgrade houses on 18th Street

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