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The alleged thefts total more than $7 million in public funds.

CHICAGO — Illinois state employees fabricated hair salons, paid others to inaccurately fill out forms and drastically inflated income numbers for their side businesses in an effort to fraudulently receive pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program loans, according to recently released reports from the Office of Executive Inspector General. One Department of Human Services employee said on a PPP ...

Former Illinois Department of Natural Resources worker sentenced to probation.

James Mayes admitted to exposing himself to a fellow female IDNR employee.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s transportation secretary violated a long-standing policy by allowing high-ranking officials to delegate certain job duties so they would avoid triggering a revolving-door prohibition, the state's inspector general found.

Eleventh Amendment — case procedure- Where district court erred by entering summary judgment on claim when defendant was immune under the Eleventh Amendment.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision by Judge Charles P. Kocoras, Northern District of Illinois.Zenon McHugh...

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A former campaign worker for the Illinois governor who is featured in an explosive email that surfaced last year says he has no knowledge of the alleged government criminal coverups it mentions

Center of ‘rape email’ denies knowledge of alleged coverup

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The ex-campaign worker for Gov. J.B. Pritzker who is at the center of an email in which a one-time Statehouse lobbyist alleged government coverups of a rape and illegal state hiring says he's completely unaware of the purported incidents that have dogged him since the email became public last year.