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House committee passes bill banning kids under 12 from playing on tackle football teams

By LGIS Newsfeed | Mar 2, 2018

With 11 yes votes, a bill banning youth younger than 12 years old from playing on organized tackle football teams passed the House Mental Health Committee on Thursday.

Analysis: 15% of Illinois residents enrolled in food stamps program

By LGIS Newsfeed | Mar 2, 2018

Approximately 1.9 million Illinoisans – or about 15 percent of the state’s population – were on food stamp rolls in January 2017, according to a Prairie State Wire analysis of 66 Illinois welfare offices.

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CMA - Eli Steele talks about race & his movie How Jack Became Black

By LGIS News Service | Mar 1, 2018

Eli Steele talks about race & his movie How Jack Became Black

CMA- Suzanne Venker talks with Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson about the roots of school shootings

By LGIS News Service | Mar 1, 2018

Suzanne Venker talks with Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson about the roots of school shootings

CMA - CNN Senior Economist Stephen Moore joins Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson

By LGIS News Service | Mar 1, 2018

CNN Senior Economist Stephen Moore joins Dan Proft & Amy Jacobson

CMA - Amy Wax joins Dan & Amy to talk campus free speech

By LGIS News Service | Mar 1, 2018

Amy Wax joins Dan & Amy to talk campus free speech

Syverson, Righter help move hospital assessment program bills through Senate

By Angela Underwood | Mar 1, 2018

Sens. Dave Syverson (R-Rockford) and Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) added their voices in support of a pair of Senate bills that had to pass together for the federal authorization of $3.5 billion needed to maintain the Illinois Hospital Assessment Program ending in June.

55 assessors should not have been elected, Edgar County Watchdogs says

By Michael McGrady | Mar 1, 2018

Across thirty-six counties and dozens of townships in the state, the election of fifty-five township or multitownship assessors during 2017 appears to have been illegal because they failed to meet statutory requirements to be candidates for the office.