Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon says there's no mystery behind Illinois’ rapidly falling population, which one recent report has at nearly 160,000 departures over the past five years.
During LGBT Pride Month, The Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA) announced that it will include sexual orientation and gender identity questions in its referral and intake processes, expanding the Department's commitment to LGBT older Illinoisans.
An Illinois state senator's comments about the potential confiscation of guns from their owners has gained national attention but came as no surprise to the executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA).
Due to the extreme wet weather conditions experienced this growing season, the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) has introduced a targeted cover crop initiative program.
Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton and Erin Guthrie, Acting Director of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced the recipients of the 2019 Governor's Export Awards during a ceremony at the Union League of Chicago on June 26th.
Rockford anesthesiologist Dr. Lisa Solomon thinks she has the perfect illustration to support her argument against a bill in the Illinois House that would allow appropriately certified registered nurses to administer anesthesia without doctor supervision.
A consortium of seven anesthesia care organizations have combined to form the Preserve Anesthesia Care Team (PACT), a group committed “to maintaining a physician-led, team-based approach” to providing anesthesia care to patients across the state.
Peter Breen, vice president and senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, argues that legislation to eliminate a parent’s right to know if their child is planning to undergo an abortion is so radical that not even many pro-abortion supporters can rally behind it.
A new Office of the Executive Inspector General (OEIG) report finds that former Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (SIUC) President Dr. Randy Dunn “improperly negotiated” several hires during his tenure as well as violated certain established hiring procedures.
Illinois Department of Labor Director Michael Kleinik joined with state and national safety experts to highlight the serious dangers posed by fatigue in the workplace, a growing problem and a focus of National Safety Month.
Legal challenges to the newly minted Reproductive Health Act (RHA) that lifts all restrictions on abortion in Illinois will come in response to narrow applications of the law, Clarke Forsythe, senior counsel at Americans United for Life, told Prairie State Wire.
The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today that nonfarm payrolls were down -2,400 jobs over-the-month and the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent in May, unchanged from the prior two months, based on preliminary data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and released by IDES. The
Truth in Accounting founder Sheila Weinberg views the new $40 billion state spending plan that Gov. J.B. Pritzker has touted as a “real balanced budget” in the same light as all the previous budgets that have long kept Illinois in the red.
The recently approved state budget hardly makes Illinois the beacon of fiscal prudence that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative leaders claim it is, budgetary analysts at Wirepoints say.
Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA) leaders recently saluted members for turning out en masse for an End-of-Session Town Hall meeting in Deerfield hosted by anti-gun rights state Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield).