Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced today that 179 teams of assistant attorneys general and investigators from her office will be monitoring elections throughout Illinois on Tuesday, March 15, to ensure that voters’ rights are protected and polling places are accessible.
Madigan urged voters to call her office if...
A record number of suburban Cook County residents in Illinois are registered to vote in Tuesday’s Presidential Primary Election, according to Cook County Clerk David Orr.
The 1,443,261 registered voters in suburban Cook County are the most ever registered to vote for a Presidential election, primary or general, Orr said.
The...
Champaign, Illinois — Venture philanthropists are dramatically reshaping public education policymaking in the U.S. by funding integrated networks of think tanks and advocacy organizations that work together to push through to implementation education laws that these wealthy donors favor, a new study suggests.
This trend is concerning because these policy...
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the results of recent investigations into illegal tobacco sales in Chicago, following an expansion to the City’s enforcement units to more aggressively intervene in businesses selling tobacco products illegally. In the last few weeks alone, City tobacco enforcement units have uncovered 192 violations, resulting in...
Chicago –The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) announced today that Illinois’ the unemployment rate in January rose 0.2 percentage points to 6.3 percent and nonfarm payroll jobs increased by +1,500, based on data released by IDES and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Illinois’ average job growth since...
Chicago — Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced her office’s annual top 10 consumer complaints for 2015 that again show consumer debt and identity theft ranked as the top concerns among Illinois consumers in the last year. Another pervasive issue has made the list for the first time – education-related...
For the second year in a row, the city of Chicago’s Small Business Center (SBC) in the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) is hosting “Food Truck Fests” from March through October at Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington St. and Willis Tower, 233 South Wacker Drive from...
Ameren Illinois recently became the 24th member of Operations Technology Development (OTD), a collaboration between some of the country’s leading natural gas utilities to develop, test, and implement new technologies for the natural gas industry. OTD leverages members’ resources and capabilities to address growing issues like aging infrastructure, new...
Full accreditation recognizes that the office has met or exceeds national standards in key areas of operations, staffing and procedures. The professional recognition comes just over three years after President Preckwinke and Dr. Stephen Cina, the Chief Cook County Medical Examiner, vowed to attain the national accreditation. Two years ago,...
Champaign, Illinois — For people who want to control their weight or reduce their intakes of sugar, sodium and saturated fat, tap water may be what the doctor ordered.
A new study that examined the dietary habits of more than 18,300 U.S. adults found the majority of people who increased...
