IEPA estimates the remediations have an average cost of $150,000 per site and said its Underground Storage Tank Fund holds more than $80 million as of April 7. Ignoring inflation, five projects per year means it would take 106 years to burn through the entire fund.

How are supposed to kids supposed to know what’s happening on their Chromebooks if they’re looking at their iPhones?

Few love the idea of a central government database, state or federal, tying everyone’s everything into a single record.

Few love the idea of a central government database, state or federal, tying everyone’s everything into a single record.

April 19 marks the anniversary of the clashes at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, between colonial militia and British regulars in 1775 that opened the Revolutionary War.

Rose, who co-chairs the Legislative Audit Commission, dressed down DOC Director LaToya Hughes for helming an agency with 40 shortcomings in fiscal 2023 and 2024.

Stories about “Dixon’s Darkest Day” often focus on its horrific elements. But this column will focus on its heroic elements.

When ethics laws don’t explicitly ban certain conduct, the result is that the powerful are invited to dance in the gray areas until jurists ultimately define the actual rules.

Current law empowers the board to expel implicated students for up to two calendar years. Under SB 2991, the mandatory minimum would be one year.