The Latest Breaking News from JB Pritzker

The return on this investment is massive, and doubly important as independent colleges and universities in Illinois enroll more students annually than the state’s public universities.

CHICAGO — When a group of Democratic state senators joined Republicans in rejecting two of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s nominees to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board last month, it became clear that crime has become such a big issue in this year’s elections it is even driving some divisions within the…

“I’ve beaten every a—h—- who’s come after me with that,” Duckworth told Biden, recounted in “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.”

Darren Bailey’s conservative campaign is targeting those he says have been forgotten and left behind. “The Republican establishment and the Democrats, they don’t have any idea some of these people exist and what they’re thinking,” he told the Sun-Times. “I think that what we do here in Illinois,…

Automated license plate readers can catch suspects, but they also invade people’s personal lives.

Three other Illinois counties have also seen their risk level elevated from “low” to “medium” under the latest CDC guidelines. The entire state was in the “low” category until about a month ago when coronavirus cases began to rebound.

The $10,000 came from a hospital company that won support in Springfield from Speaker Chris Welch. ShawnTe Raines-Welch’s spokesman says the money was unsolicited, spotted as violating a ban on contributions from outside Illinois and quickly given back.

Pritzker held a last-minute Chicago news conference to take a victory lap over the upgrade. The Democratic governor, facing a reelection battle, has spotlighted the state’s fiscal rating upgrades and debt paydowns during his tenure in at least one campaign TV ad.

The endorsements from Illinois Family Action, Illinois Federation for Right to Life and Illinois Citizens for Life come a day after Bailey reported a $2.5 million campaign contribution from Dick Uihlein, bringing the total the Lake Forest businessman has donated to $3,525,000.