SPRINGFIELD – Illinois could indefinitely quarantine anyone who refuses vaccination, examination, or observation, under a bill pending in the House. Cats and dogs would fare worse than people, as the bill would allow the public health department to kill any animal.
The judge issued a temporary restraining order on Pritzker's authority to force school districts to require students to wear masks and to exclude children suspected of being exposed to COVID from school without due process
It’s time for public officials like Gov. JB Pritzker to check the political winds on their COVID policies. They may cling to their version of science, but the politics have shifted against them, even within their own party. They are rapidly being left behind, putting Illinois and a few other states in outlier status on COVID policy, particularly for children.
Plains All American Pipeline has reached an agreement with Highland residents to settle claims arising from a 2015 oil spill that contaminated Silver Lake.
SPRINGFIELD – Lake County citizen Dan McConchie aims to challenge division of his county into judicial subcircuits as a partner with Madison County at Sangamon County circuit court.
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Supreme Court is ignoring an order of Sangamon County Circuit Judge Ryan Cadigan to reinstate countywide judicial elections in Madison County, according to state’s attorney Tom Haine.
An investigation found $4 billion in funds to be doled out by politicians at their discretion, with Gov. J.B. Pritzker controlling half of it. The extra pork was packed into Illinois’ $45 billion infrastructure plan, including $144 million for Madigan friends – some who never asked for it.
SPRINGFIELD – A Sangamon County judge on Jan. 24 granted a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit State’s Attorney Tom Haine filed over the redistricting of Madison County’s judiciary.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Johnston City challenges from the outset the credibility of Katherine Smith, who alleges excessive force against canine officer Asa McVicker at U.S. district court.
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn rejected Madison County jurisdiction in a wrongful death suit against Mead Johnson on Jan. 20, finding attorney David Cates of Swansea incorrectly identified the defendant as an Illinois business.
Plaintiffs say Gov. JB Pritzker and 140 school districts overstepped the state's public health law in issuing statewide COVID mask, testing and student 'exclusion' mandates, unilaterally rewriting state quarantine rules in the process
SPRINGFIELD – Registration of immunizations in Illinois would change from voluntary to mandatory under a bill Rep. Bob Morgan (D-Highwood) introduced last week.
EAST ST. LOUIS – St. Clair County Chief Judge Andrew Gleeson dissolved Commonfields water district but didn’t do it correctly, according to a federal lawsuit alleging damage from floods of rain and sewage.
