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Sarah Murmann teaches her dual credit statistics class for seniors at Crystal Lake South High School, March 18, 2025. Murmann testified at a state House committee hearing on legislation that would establish guidelines for teachers and school administrators on how to use artificial intelligence. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

State legislators look to establish rules for artificial intelligence in elections, education and health care

March 19, 2025 at 7:05 a.m.

Illinois legislators are considering several bills to provide rules for artificial intelligence in education, health care and other areas.

A photo of Jayden Perkins, the 11-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in his home on March 13, 2024, is placed at a memorial outside Perkins home in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Family of slain boy accuses state prisoner review board of negligence in lawsuit

March 14, 2025 at 6:25 p.m.

The family of a boy slain while trying to protect his mother from a former boyfriend has sued the Illinois Prisoner Review Board for releasing the man before the killng.

The former Dwight Correctional Center sits on 160 acres on March 6, 2025 in Dwight. It includes dozens of buildings, many constructed in the French Norman style, and built with yellow brick and stone. The women's prison opened in 1930 and was closed in 2013. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Gov. JB Pritzker’s $300M proposal seeks to attract developers to abandoned sites that now draw only vandals

March 11, 2025 at 6:18 a.m.

Gov. JB Pritzker announced a $300 million pitch in February to make an old prison site and four other vacated state properties ready for economic development.

Gov. JB Pritzker, from left, relays the most recent Illinois statistics for COVID-19 as Attorney General Kwame Raoul, Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike and Alicia Tate-Nadeau, right, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency director, stand behind Pritzker at the Thompson Center on March 17, 2020, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

State disaster response director one of two top officials leaving this month

March 7, 2025 at 6:38 p.m.

Two state officials, including one who played a key role in responses to crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, are departing this month.

State Sen Linda Holmes on the Senate floor in Springfield on Oct. 25, 2011. (E. Jason Wambsgans/ baiduhai)

Hearing on ‘right to die’ bill put on hold as legislators work on changes

March 5, 2025 at 6:43 p.m.

A scheduled hearing on a medical aid in dying legislation was called off as legislators sought to refine the bill.

Aaron Bass, 39, at the Kankakee Public Library on Feb. 14, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

People with developmental disabilities can wait years for community placements, state records show

March 3, 2025 at 12:59 p.m.

Across Illinois’ seven remaining state operated facilities for people with developmental disabilities, more than 200 were seeking placement elsewhere as of last month.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during a news conference at the UI Health Mile Square Health Center on Feb. 28, 2025, discussing the impact of potential cuts to Medicaid health coverage. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Gov. JB Pritzker and top Illinois Democrats appeal to public in fight against potential Medicaid cuts

February 28, 2025 at 5:39 p.m.

Top Illinois Democrats led by Gov. JB Pritzker and Dick Durbin made public appeal for help in the fight against potential cuts to Medicaid.

Gov. JB Pritzker provides an update on the new migrant arrivals, during a news conference in Chicago, Sept. 14, 2022. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Audit finds many were improperly enrolled in state health care program for noncitizens, while costs were vastly underestimated

March 3, 2025 at 10:35 a.m.

Gov. JB Pritzker's administration vastly underestimated the costs of a healthcare program for noncitizen immigrants, which enrolled thousands who should have been ineligible, an audit finds.

Illinois Department of Human Services lines up leader for consolidated mental health, substance abuse division

February 20, 2025 at 7:35 p.m.

David Albert, head of the state Division of Mental Health, is expected to lead a new office when it combines with the IDHS division on substance use.

Gov. JB Pritzker walks the floor before delivering his State of the State and budget address before the General Assembly at the state Capitol in Springfield, Feb. 19, 2025. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Gov. JB Pritzker proposes belt-tightening budget with no new taxes, invokes Nazism in bashing Trump

February 20, 2025 at 6:23 a.m.

In his budget and State of the State Address, Gov. J.B. Pritzker invoked the rise of Nazi German in criticizing the Trump administration.

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