The Latest Breaking News from Illinois

If Gov. J.B. Pritzker does cut a deal and convinces the Belvidere Assembly Plant to stay and even expand, he’ll have overcome some gargantuan hurdles.

The alleged scheme ran almost two years.

SPRINGFIELD — An Illinois appellate court on Tuesday upheld a downstate judge’s decision to temporarily block Illinois’ recently enacted ban on high-powered weapons and high-capacity magazines from being enforced on more than 850 people and a handful of licensed gun dealers named as plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the ban.

Tony Sanders has led Elgin Area School District U-46, the state’s second-largest district, since 2014. He will take over as head of the state board of education in late-February.

Beyond the bureaucratic red tape, the disaster proclamation allowed Gov. J.B. Pritzker to put in place multiple executive orders. Should the pandemic worsen, he would have to make another disaster proclamation in order to issue those sorts of orders again.

An Illinois appellate court has upheld a temporary restraining order on enforcement of the state’s three-week-old law banning semiautomatic weapons

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Everyday Illinoisans and law enforcement won’t sit by while the majority party turns our criminal justice system into a model that penalizes lawful gun owners, diminishes law enforcement’s effectiveness and eases penalties for those who commit violent crimes.

Illinois law bars insurers from charging out-of-network rates for neonatal care at in-network hospitals. But that didn’t keep it from happening to Brenna Kearney and her husband Casey Trumble. Only a reporter’s questions got things fixed.