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Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday he has "no concerns at all" about a media report that federal authorities are investigating a property tax break he got by taking toilets out of a Chicago mansion he owns.
The University of Illinois’ Media and Cinema Studies department will host its annual Illinifest Student Film Festival Saturday at 5 pm at the Gregory Hall Theater in Urbana. The festival is produced, programmed and curated entirely by University of Illinois students.
The former ethics watchdog for the Illinois General Assembly says the office is “broken.”
If you want to buy a gun in Illinois, you need to get a background check, but you don’t have to submit fingerprints. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office says it’s time to change that. Plus, nursing homes around the state have been closing for financial reasons, and advocates say it’s going to get worse. And you might know FermiLab for its cutting-edge physics research, but they also keep up to 30 bison that you can go and see. The first calf of the year was born just this weekend.
Activists hope a meeting set for Thursday night will attract residents concerned about chemical pollution they believe was not addressed by the cleanup at the site of a long-gone gas plant in Champaign’s predominantly African-American north side.
