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Land of Lincoln Goodwill president submits resignation

Friday, July 19, 2019

The president and CEO of Land of Lincoln Goodwill resigned Thursday, two days after backtracking on a plan to lay off several disabled employees. Land of Lincoln Goodwill, a central Illinois not-for-profit thrift store chain with more than 400 employees and 15 stores, announced the resignation of President and CEO Sharon Durbin in a news release Thursday.

Suburban Republicans object to Sterigenics settlement

Thursday, July 18, 2019

A group of suburban Republican lawmakers are calling on state and local officials to reverse course on a consent order that would allow a sterilization company linked to increased cancer rates to reopen. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul and DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin on Wednesday filed a motion to enter a consent order with Sterigenics, a medical supply...

Lawmakers call for review of Goodwill’s state contracts after reports of disabled worker layoffs

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

State lawmakers are calling for a review of state contracts and funding awarded to Land of Lincoln Goodwill, a not-for-profit thrift store chain, after a news report revealed the company’s...

Governor calls on flood-affected residents to report damage

Monday, July 15, 2019

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office is urging Illinoisans to report any damages caused by recent flooding to their county’s emergency management agencies in order to increase the likelihood of...

Audit: State’s technology department full of waste, unequipped to deal with disaster

Friday, July 12, 2019

In its first two years of existence, the state’s lead technology agency was not equipped to handle technology disasters, maintained servers and computers with inadequate or nonexistent...

State unemployment site back up after outage; crash tied to 3 percent loss of mainframe data storage

Thursday, July 11, 2019

The Illinois Department of Employment Security’s unemployment claim system is back online Thursday after a more than two-day outage rendered the system unable to distribute unemployment...

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...

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...

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Land of Lincoln Goodwill president submits resignation

Suburban Republicans object to Sterigenics settlement