Illinois legislators are trying to help state taxpayers get around limitations in the new federal tax law. But the federal government may negate the plan before it even has a chance to become law.
A bill aimed at preventing workplace violence against healthcare workers passed in the Illinois House on Wednesday May 23. This comes as a new survey from the University of Illinois finds 90 percent of nurses in Illinois experienced violence while working at least once in the past year.
On The 21st: The troubling statistics about violence nurses face on the job - and what people in Illinois are trying to do change that. Plus, the NFL’s decision that NFL players can’t protest the national anthem by taking a knee - and how Chicago Bears players are reacting to it But first, foreign-born people make up 1 in 10 in Champaign County. We talk about a new report about immigrants, which is part of a national study from the New American Economy.