Prairie State Wire

State investigation finds former Illinois VA official committed sexual and racial harassment

By Amanda Smith-Teutsch | Sep 24, 2019

The former assistant director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs sexually and racially harassed his employees, according to the Illinois office of the Executive Investigator General.

More than half of Illinois' police and fire pension funds are underfunded, Wirepoints reports

By Amanda Smith-Teutsch | Sep 17, 2019

Financial decay is happening at all levels of Illinois state government, according to the president of state news aggregation and research site Wirepoints.