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FAFSA
Education
10 months ago
Illinois Legislature passes bills designed to give FAFSA help

Measures provide high school time and help to students filling out FAFSA

Senior driver
Local
10 months ago
Senior drivers get a break from IL Secretary of State

The plan received bipartisan support.

Lincoln Monument
IL State News
11 months ago
Lincoln’s blood-stained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction

The auction at Freeman’s/Hindman in Chicago raised $7.9 million, but that includes buyers’ premiums of roughly 28% tacked onto each sale to cover the auction house’s administrative costs.

Julia Kathary (right) listens to her daughter, Connie Kathary (left), talk about her day at school at a marketplace in Indianapolis, Indiana, earlier this year. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Carly Gist for the Saluki Local Reporting Lab)
IL State News
11 months ago
In the fight for youth transgender health care, Illinois remains at the forefront

“If I didn’t transition, I’m not even sure I would still be here,” Indiana high school senior says

State Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth (D-Peoria), left, speaks Tuesday in Springfield with All in One CEO Pamela Frazier.
Local
11 months ago
Negotiator says budget should pass, but summer session will likely be needed

Gordon-Booth: Question will be what federal funding will be made available

State Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, watches as her bill to ban carbon sequestration under, above or through the Mahomet Aquifer, is voted on. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Jerry Nowicki)
IL State News
11 months ago
Bill banning carbon sequestration near Mahomet Aquifer clears General Assembly

The bill comes after recent leaks at a carbon injection site in Decatur

Local
11 months ago
IL House votes against heavy metals in baby food

Companies would then have to clearly label how much of each toxic metal is found in their baby food.