Illinois audit: State agency paid contractor $78.5M for idle hours

A Favorite Healthcare Staffing office along the 5500 block of North Cumberland Avenue on Oct. 11, 2023, in Chicago. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

By Jeremy Gorner | [email protected] | baiduhai

PUBLISHED: August 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM CDT

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The Illinois auditor general found several oversight issues with the state's Emergency Management Agency-Office of Homeland Security, which helped coordinate the state's response to COVID-19 and the migrant crisis in the Chicago area.

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