Dan Petrella

St. Francis de Sales Catholic High School students in class at the Southeast Side school on June 7, 2023. The Catholic high school of approximately 200 students has some students who receive a controversial tax credit scholarship.

Democratic legislators introduce bill to extend controversial private school tax credit program

October 24, 2023 at 7:33 p.m.

Illinois House Democrats introduced a bill Tuesday that would extend a controversial private school tax credit for another five years, which supporters say could prevent thousands of children whose tuitions...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker announces expanded reproductive health care protections on July 31, 2023, at UIC's Student Center West.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker proposes new agency for early childhood services

October 24, 2023 at 6:04 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday offered a broad outline of his plan to create a new state agency devoted to early childhood services, consolidating work now handled by three separate...

The rotunda at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield on April 19, 2023.

Measures to extend private school tax credit, lift nuclear plant moratorium top agenda of state legislature’s end-of-year session

October 23, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

A controversial private school tax credit that's set to expire at the end of the year is one of the biggest unresolved issues Illinois lawmakers could take up when they...

A child pushed in a stroller watches as contractors working at the Inn of Chicago migrant shelter unload supplies and transport them into the shelter on Oct. 3, 2023.

Clocked in 12 hours a day, 7 days a week: How staffing bills for migrant shelters swelled with overtime

March 11, 2024 at 12:31 p.m.

When a security guard clocked out of a Streeterville migrant shelter one Friday in March, he'd just logged his 84th hour at work that week. His bosses told the city...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife, M.K. Pritzker, attend pre-inauguration festivities for then-Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson outside of Michele Clark Magnet High School, in Chicago on May 15, 2023.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife report income dropped by more than $16 million last year

October 13, 2023 at 8:31 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife saw a substantial drop in their state taxable income last year as the billionaire Democrat successfully sought a second term, partial tax records released...

Mayor Brandon Johnson's deputy chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, speaks Sept. 29, 2023, at City Hall, alongside the deputy mayor for immigrant migrant and refugee rights, Beatriz Ponce de Leon, and Ald. Andre Vasquez, as alderman conduct a hearing on the city's migrant response.

Illinois leaders tepid about more quick funding for Chicago’s migrant crisis

March 11, 2024 at 12:34 p.m.

State leaders on Thursday threw more cold water on the prospect of quickly providing new funding to help Chicago's migrant crisis as Mayor Brandon Johnson also grapples with resistance from...

Migrants follow an official after getting off a warming bus near West Polk Street and South Desplaines Street in the West Loop on Dec. 31, 2023.

Mayor Brandon Johnson exploring backup plan to tent cities for migrants as Gov. J.B. Pritzker says more state funding unlikely

October 5, 2023 at 6:41 p.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration is exploring unspecified backup plans should it not hit its goal of setting up tent base camps for new asylum-seekers before winter, a top deputy said...

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