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Pritzker signs bill targeting ‘predatory’ health insurance practices

Peter Hancock
Jul 10, 2024 7:49 pm - Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation Wednesday that puts new controls on the state’s health insurance industry, including bans on practices companies have used to reduce costs by controlling the amount of health care services a patient receives.
Transit agency leaders push back on calls to merge Pace, CTA, Metra

Andrew Adams
Jul 10, 2024 8:03 pm - It was standing room only in a downtown Chicago committee hearing Tuesday as activists, transit experts and lobbyists hung on the words of the region’s transit agency chiefs.
Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to assault weapons ban in Illinois

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jul 02, 2024 3:29 pm - The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden.
Struggling with falling demand for farm equipment, Deere & Co. announces nearly 600 layoffs

By MATT OTT
Jul 01, 2024 11:47 am - Deere & Co. is laying off nearly 600 workers as the farm equipment manufacturer deals with declining demand. Deere confirmed Monday that the production positions being cu...
Officials evacuate area after train derails in suburban Chicago

Jun 27, 2024 6:46 pm - MATTESON — Emergency officials ordered what turned out to be a relatively brief evacuation after a freight train derailed in suburban Chicago on Thursday. The Canadian Na...
US Sen. Dick Durbin undergoes hip replacement surgery in home state of Illinois

Jun 27, 2024 2:43 pm - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois underwent hip replacement surgery Thursday and will remain in his home state of Illinois until he's cleared by his doctor for travel to ...
Illinois may soon return land the US stole from a Prairie Band Potawatomi chief 175 years ago

By JOHN O'CONNOR
Jun 24, 2024 6:52 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Il...
State highway shootings decline as critics sue over ‘dragnet surveillance’

By Jerry Nowicki
Jun 23, 2024 7:59 am - Illinois State Police say an automated license plate reader program has helped the agency identify witnesses or suspects in 82 percent of highway shooting cases this year, including all eight that resulted in a death.
Suspect in shooting of 3 deputies in Illinois had multiple firearms, sheriff says

Jun 13, 2024 1:49 pm - DIXON — A man accused of shooting and wounding three sheriff's deputies during a standoff at a home in northern Illinois had multiple firearms in his possession, authorit...
3 deputies shot while responding to northern Illinois home, suspect also wounded, official says

Jun 12, 2024 6:09 pm - Three sheriff’s deputies were shot Wednesday while responding at a northern Illinois home, and the suspect was also wounded, authorities told reporters.

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