On this week's episode of Under the Dome, Doug Finke and Bernard Schoenburg discuss back pay for Illinois state employees and all things related to the Illinois State Fair.
Always had a hankering to see a cow wearing a hard hat?Your wait is over.The butter cow for the 2019 Illinois State Fair made its official debut Wednesday, a sculpture in dairy that reflects the fair's "Building Our Future" theme.
Some of the back wages owed to unionized state employees have started to be paid, but much more still hinges on the comptroller's office getting payroll information from state agencies.
Governors change. State fair traditions don't.Thus, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, armed with a giant pair of scissors, cut the ribbon Thursday to kick off the 2019 edition of the Illinois State Fair.
Leading elected Illinois Republicans recoiled Thursday at the prospect that President Donald Trump would commute disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence and warned it could put the GOP in a deeper hole in trying to fight one-party Democratic control of the state in next year's elections
CHICAGO — Officials from several public universities in Illinois told a panel of state lawmakers Thursday they do not believe there is widespread abuse of court-ordered guardianships that have enabled some students from wealthy backgrounds to obtain need-based student financial aid.“We don’t believe that this is a wide national scandal,” Andy Borst, director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Illinois, said during a special hearing in Chicago.
Just days after giving up on a recount over the post he lost in November, former Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran said Tuesday he is setting his sights on much higher public office and will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate and the right to challenge four-term Democratic Sen.
In the wake of the weekend’s mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, that combined left more than 30 people dead, Gov.
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