Ill State News

SPRINGFIELD – Following a temporary suspension of Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collections, Illinois EPA Director John J. Kim is announcing ten upcoming HHW one-day collection locations for the spring of 2023.   Operations have also resumed at five previously established longterm HHW collection locations. Illinois EPA offers residents free HHW collection events to safely dispose […]

JEFFERSON CITY – On This Date in Missouri Senate History, the date was March 21, 1826, the day the Missouri General Assembly met in St. Charles for the final time.   Just six years’ prior, the original seat of state government was in St. Louis. Before naming a permanent seat, St. Charles was chosen as

CHICAGO — On May 17, at noon,  Illinois Humanities will be celebrating this year’s Public Humanities Awards and presenting the Beacon Award to Tracie D. Hall, Executive Director of the American Library Association and a national champion for basic and digital literacy skills and equitable access to information for all.    In addition to Hall,

CHICAGO— Governor JB Pritzker today joined 14 other Governors to call on major pharmacies to clarify how they plan to safeguard against threats to reproductive healthcare and protect access to medication like Mifepristone. Governor Pritzker and other members of the Reproductive Freedom Alliance, a nonpartisan coalition of Governors invested in protecting reproductive health care, called on

CHICAGO – The Illinois State Police (ISP) is warning the public about what appears to be an increasing trend in road rage.  While the number of shootings on Chicago area expressways continues to decrease compared to the height in 2021, victims are increasingly reporting road rage as the reason behind the expressway shooting.   In 2022,

SPRINGFIELD — Basic human rights are threatened every day by hatred and intolerance. The internet, social media and constant connectivity through smartphones and similar devices make us more vulnerable than we realize to these threats, especially children. These are two powerful reasons why the Simon Wiesenthal Center, through its innovative Mobile Museum of Tolerance, and the Illinois

SPRINGFIELD – The field of contenders for the 2023 title of The Coolest Thing Made in Illinois has been narrowed further, with voters choosing the Top 8 products to move ahead in the fourth annual “Makers Madness” contest. Hosted by the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association, “Makers Madness” is a bracket-style tournament in which voters across the state

BLOOMINGTON — Illinois Governor JB Pritzker joined Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton, stakeholders, and community leaders at Heartland Community College to highlight his proposed investments in higher education. The Governor’s FY24 budget calls for the largest increase for community colleges in over two decades and historic investments in financial aid, putting Illinois on track to guarantee