Gov. Bruce Rauner continued Thursday to tout the state budget agreement, touring the Rockford office of Children’s Home and Aid to highlight the state’s new $5,000 tax credit for adoptive parents.
With approximately 38,000 people in Illinois living with HIV, Gov. Bruce Rauner Wednesday endorsed a plan to stop the transmission of the disease entirely.
The $500 million included in the recently approved state budget for a new South Loop public-private research facility to be run by the University of Illinois will “plant the seeds for dramatically higher economic growth,” Gov. Bruce Rauner said Tuesday.
With State Rep. Silvana Tabares set to become the next alderman for the Chicago’s 23rd Ward, it will fall to a group of Democratic Party insiders from the city’s Southwest Side and nearby suburbs to pick a replacement.
Illinois Supreme Court Justice P. Scott Neville, Jr. vowed Friday to use his voice for the “poor, homeless, mentally ill, disenfranchised, the left out and the down and out” as the newest member of the state’s highest court.