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SPRINGFIELD, IL (WSIL) -- Illinois State Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza will unfreeze and release $870,629 to ShawneeLec, Inc. of Equality, Illinois, after the state contractor paid back wages and fines.
Local control. Economic development. Are they compatible? The governor finds himself squarely in the middle. Again. Democrats passed House Bill 4412 in the last days of the 102nd General Assembly, but Gov. JB Pritzker hasn't yet signed it into law. Aside from the fact he's been busy with bigger proposals and an inauguration, there are political reasons at play. Chiefly,
More than 100 concrete workers demonstrated outside of Seattle's AGC Headquarters building on Wednesday morning, demanding better worker rights.
By Greg Bishop - Illinois Radio Network Just how much transparency there should be when it comes to public works projects is an area of debate as lawmakers advance a measure requiring private contractors’ salaries to be public if they’re working on a taxpayer-funded project. State Sen. Chris Belt, D-Centreville, said to better enforce prevailing wage his amendment to Senate Bill 1767 creates an electronic database for private sector contractors working on projects paid for by taxpayers to post salary information of their workers on those projects. “It will provide greater transpar...