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Richard Ingram, who resigned Monday as executive director of the Teachers' Retirement System, is shown speaking at Fremd High School in Palatine in 2012.

Executive director of massive Illinois teachers pension fund resigns after investigation into ‘performance issues’

August 6, 2020 at 7:05 p.m.

The executive director of the massive Teachers' Retirement System resigned earlier this week after being placed on administrative leave days earlier following an internal investigation into "performance issues." The Teachers'...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker warns of ‘extraordinarily painful’ cuts, job losses if Washington doesn’t provide pandemic relief funding to states

August 5, 2020 at 6:14 p.m.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned Wednesday that the state faces "extraordinarily painful" budget cuts if the federal government fails to provide states with relief funding to make up for tax...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker answers questions from the media after he unveiled a new mask awareness campaign called "It Only Works If You Wear It" during a press conference at the IEMA State Emergency Operations Center on August 3, 2020, in Springfield, Ill.

Pritzker says U. of I.’s COVID-19 saliva test could be made more widely available; says colleges and universities should not open without strict enforcement of mask mandate

August 4, 2020 at 6:21 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday his administration is in talks with University of Illinois officials about making a saliva test researchers there have developed for use on campus more widely...

Illinois launches $5 million mask awareness campaign, Pritzker opens door to fines for those who disregard rules

August 3, 2020 at 5:26 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Monday unveiled a $5 million multimedia campaign to push the use of face masks to slow the spread of COVID-19, and said he is open to...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton before Pritzker's State of the State speech at the Illinois State Capitol on Jan. 29, 2020.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker lays out plan to overhaul state’s juvenile justice system, shift to smaller, ‘community-based’ regional facilities

July 31, 2020 at 7:18 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administration announced Friday a planned overhaul of the state's juvenile justice system whose hallmark is a move from juvenile facilities that mimic adult prisons to smaller regional...

Margaret Orozco pushes her bike to get tested for coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020.

Illinois puts 11 counties at ‘warning level’ for coronavirus resurgence as daily case count pushes close to 2,000

July 31, 2020 at 3:19 p.m.

Eleven of Illinois' 102 counties have been put on a state "warning level" based on key metrics for measuring the resurgence of COVID-19, officials said Friday, as the state logged...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at Illinois State Capitol on May 20, 2020. The governor made downstate visits on July 30, 2020, warning about the rising number of coronavirus cases.

As daily COVID-19 case count in Illinois reaches level not seen since May, Pritzker takes reopening reversal warning downstate: ‘We’re at a danger point, everybody’

July 30, 2020 at 5:56 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker took his admonition that parts of Illinois could be headed for a reopening reversal downstate on Thursday, as the state continues to see elevated levels of COVID-19...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker at a news conference at the University of Chicago's Harper Center on July 23, 2020.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker warns of a possible ‘reversal’ as COVID-19 numbers rise in Illinois: ‘Things are not headed in the right direction’

July 29, 2020 at 6:29 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker warned on Wednesday that Illinois could be headed for a "reversal" in its reopening as the state continues to see a resurgence in coronavirus case numbers, and...

Deerfield's Rafi Feldman rounds third base before scoring a run against Buffalo Grove's Jacob Schwerdlin in Buffalo Grove on July 18, 2020. Youth sports and adult recreational leagues in Illinois will be limited under stricter state rules in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker lays out stricter rules for youth sports, with risk levels based partly on amount of contact between participants

July 29, 2020 at 5:16 p.m.

Youth sports and adult recreational leagues in Illinois will be further limited under stricter state rules in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus after outbreaks of the...

Lobbyist Mike McClain, seated, talks outside House Speaker Michael Madigan's office on the last day of the Illinois General Assembly at the state Capitol in Springfield on May 31, 2016.

Feds subpoena AT&T as part of investigation into Speaker Madigan and lobbying

July 23, 2020 at 1:14 p.m.

Telephone giant AT&T has been subpoenaed by federal prosecutors amid a widening criminal probe encircling House Speaker Michael Madigan's political operation, a source with knowledge of the investigation told the...

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