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Attorney Sally Scott of Chicago-based Franczek Radelet provided a brief history of the Unit 4 consent decree, and its 2009 settlement to address racial inequities. But community leaders who worked on the agreement want more changes in areas like discipline and hiring.
A new policy requiring criminal background checks for all new University of Illinois employees will not be implemented on the Urbana campus until November 1st, following a request from the Academic Senate.
Illinois will be among the first states to implement a savings program for the lifelong care of people with disabilities. The financial planning tool is being promoted at a time when many state-funded services for those with disabilities are not being paid.
Attorneys for the former U.S. House Speaker from Illinois say a possible plea deal has been reached in his hush-money case. A May indictment said Hastert agreed to pay someone identified as "Individual A" to keep them from identifying past misconduct.
Illinois is about to enter its fourth month without a budget. One of the state's top Democrats says the problem could be resolved within days, if the governor moved off his insistence that other laws pass first.
