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160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of psychiatrist she exposed

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, in part, publicly disagreeing with his positions on religion, women’s rights and slavery.

State announces 3rd manufacturing expansion spurred by new tax credit

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Gov. JB Pritzker announced another milestone Thursday in his administration’s push to expand the state’s role as a manufacturing hub in the renewable energy economy.

UPDATED: Cash bail will end in Illinois as justices rule SAFE-T Act provisions constitutional

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

A landmark criminal justice reform that eliminates cash bail in Illinois is constitutional, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, paving the way for the change to take effect Sept....

Capitol News Illinois to launch broadcast expansion, bolster southern Illinois presence with new hires

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Veteran journalists Jennifer Fuller and Molly Parker will join Capitol News Illinois’ newsroom this month, expanding the outlet’s southern Illinois, broadcast and investigative...

State ends fiscal year with record $50.7 billion in base revenue, sparking small surplus

Friday, July 7, 2023

State revenues once again reached a record high in the fiscal year that ended June 30, creating what Gov. JB Pritzker called a “one-time” budget surplus of over $700 million.

1% grocery tax to resume, gas tax to increase as new fiscal year begins July 1

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

A new state fiscal year will begin July 1, ushering in the reinstatement of a 1 percent tax on groceries and a second increase to the state’s motor fuel tax in 2023.

Pritzker quickly wields expanded authority to freeze noncitizen health care enrollment

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration wasted no time last week in exercising new authority granted by lawmakers to limit the number of enrollees in a pair of state-funded health care programs...

Stalled bills include repeal of subminimum wage for disabled workers, BIPA reform

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

While hundreds of bills cleared the General Assembly in the final month of the legislative session, some big-ticket measures will have to wait until at least the fall. Sponsors of several stalled...

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160 years later, activist Elizabeth Packard honored in place of psychiatrist she exposed

State announces 3rd manufacturing expansion spurred by new tax credit