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Published August 3, 2021 • Updated on August 3, 2021 at 4:48 pm NBC Universal, Inc. When a suburban mother got a red-light ticket in her mailbox last fall, she knew that the citation had to be a mistake, and with the help of NBC 5 Responds, she was able to contest it, and to win. The citation that arrived in Sherri Eggett’s mailbox in the fall of 2020 just had to be a mistake, she says. The date of the violation at a red light on South Archer Avenue was dated in Sept. 2020, when she was...

/ An image from the Illinois Department of Employment Security shows the anticipated fund balance of the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund as of June 2021. Since economic shutdowns began and COVID-19 death counts started to rise in March 2020, national unemployment rates have hovered at historically high numbers, stressing state unemployment systems left dealing with an unprecedented number of claims. In Illinois, that’s led to a deficit in the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund – or the p...

In a defeat for Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Illinois House approves shift to elected Chicago school board; broad gun control bill also approved Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune © Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, from left, outgoing Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson and incoming interim CEO of CPS Jose Torres are seen during a news conference at Richardson Middle School in Chicago on June 14, 2021. Torres was selected as incoming interim CEO,...

The Illinois House on Wednesday gave final approval to a comprehensive gun safety measure aimed at modernizing Illinois’ 53-year-old firearms owner’s identification card law while also requiring background checks on private sales of firearms. The bill passed by a 75-40 vote, but a procedural hold was placed on the measure to prevent it from going directly to Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s desk. ...

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed legislation requiring casino...

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers passed measures Friday, May 28, to redraw state legislative and judicial district lines, less than 24 hours after the bills implementing the maps were introduced.

SPRINGFIELD - A bill redrawing judicial circuits in the Metro-East and Chicago suburbs passed the Illinois Senate at 3 a.m. on June 1, without public hearing or input from stakeholders.

State Rep. Jay Hoffman claims the reason for peeling off Monroe, Perry, Randolph and Washington counties from the 20th Judicial Circuit, and making St. Clair County a circuit unto its own, is because of its heavy caseload.

An ethics reform proposal approved by the Illinois House and sent to the state Senate would ban constitutional officeholders from lobbying the state until six months after leaving office or for the rest of their term, whichever is sooner.

SPRINGFIELD –Democrat State Rep. Jay Hoffman (Belleville) proposes to lop Monroe, Washington, Randolph and Perry counties off the 20th Judicial Circuit and make St. Clair County a circuit unto itself.