All students and staff members who will be on any of the University of Illinois campuses this fall will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

The agreement would end the federal lawsuit against the former governor and his campaign entity, Citizens for Rauner, that was brought by Peter Garvey, an Illinois resident who received three prerecorded voice mails from Rauner’s campaign in 2018.

At least one person was critically injured and four others were hurt in Naperville after a tornado Sunday damaged more than 130 homes in a subdivision on the city’s far east side, fire officials said.

Exelon has taken a step toward closing the Byron Nuclear plant in September as an energy deal has yet to be reached on the state level.

The elections law, which took effect immediately upon the governor’s signature, instructs election authorities to create a permanent vote-by-mail list which voters may choose to join. It also makes Election Day 2022 a state holiday.

Illinois lawmakers finished a two-day special session Thursday by passing some important legislation but without reaching agreement on the one issue they had hoped to resolve – an energy bill that would phase out all carbon emissions from power plants over the next 30 years.

The Illinois house on Wednesday passed a Firearm Owner Identification card law change that would strengthen law enforcement’s ability to retrieve guns from those with suspended or revoked FOID cards and allow for voluntary fingerprinting to expedite renewals.

Illinois has become the latest state to make Juneteenth an official state holiday

In an Energy and Public Utilities Committee hearing, Senator Bill Cunningham, D-Chicago, said the bill had stalled amid disagreements over decarbonization measures aimed at taking coal and gas plants offline.