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Community colleges weighing options for offering cannabis programs

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Some community colleges and four-year universities in Illinois are exploring the possibility of launching educational programs to train people in the business of growing and marketing marijuana in light of a new state law legalizing adult-use recreational marijuana.

UPDATED: IDES site back up after ‘database error’ puts online unemployment claims on hold

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

UPDATED Thursday, July 11: IDES site back up: State officials are working to fix a “database error” that rendered the Illinois Department of Employment Security website unable to process unemployment claims or mandatory certifications online Tuesday or Wednesday.

Census advocates forge ahead amid citizenship question uncertainty

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

SPRINGFIELD – Amid national uncertainty about whether a citizenship question will be included on the 2020 U.S. Census, advocates in Illinois are not changing their approach to ensuring all...

Pritzker signs bills doubling line-of-duty death benefits, addressing human trafficking

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

While Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been touring the state to promote his signing of capital infrastructure and marijuana legalization legislation, several other bills he signed have received...

Abortion rights advocates plan to tackle Parental Notification Act next

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law one of the most liberal reproductive health care measures in the country last month, but advocates and legislators say their work ensuring abortion is...

Higher education official hopeful new funding will stem tide of student outmigration

Monday, July 1, 2019

The interim director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education is hopeful a combination of added infrastructure and operations funding for state universities and colleges will help entice Illinois...

State leaders scoff at legal challenge to state bonds

Monday, July 1, 2019

State officials in Illinois reacted with scorn this week to a legal filing in Sangamon County that challenges the constitutionality of two sets of bonds the state issued in 2003 and 2017 totaling...

Pritzker hails infrastructure bill as ‘job creation plan the likes of which our state has never seen’

Friday, June 28, 2019

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers, business leaders and labor representatives in Springfield Friday as he signed a package of bills enacting a $45 billion...

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Community colleges weighing options for offering cannabis programs