Pritzker calls multi-year road construction plan ‘historic improvement’
Pritzker calls multi-year road construction plan ‘historic improvement’
Lawmakers and Illinois Department of Transportation officials released details of a new $23.5 billion multi-year plan for revamping the state’s roads and bridges Monday at a bipartisan event in Springfield. Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker hailed the plan as one that would stimulate the state’s economy and usher in a new era of bipartisanship and effective government in Illinois.
IDPH: State ‘showing progress’ toward goal of reducing opioid deaths
Jenny Epstein, director of strategic opioid initiatives, said the number of opioid overdose deaths in Illinois decreased in 2018 for the first time in five years. There were 2,167 opioid deaths in Illinois last year, down from 2,202 in 2017. “Although any decrease in deaths is something to be celebrated, this decrease was driven primarily by a decline in deaths among non-Hispanic...