(The Center Square) – Elected leaders in St. Louis – the location of Missouri's only clinic licensed to perform abortions – introduced a bill today to use federal COVID-19 funds to facilitate women's access to abortion hours after a state…
(The Center Square) – The organization representing gas station owners in Illinois wants motorists to know the state has some of the highest gas taxes in the country.
Experts weigh in as the first public glimpse of a confession Brian Laundrie left in a notebook in the Florida swamp where he killed himself last year reveals his final words.
The Chicago City Council blocked a vote to repeal the lower speed camera ticket threshold, responsible for $59 million in tickets last year. Mayor Lori Lightfoot now has until July 20 to save a policy that issued more tickets than Chicago has residents.
President Biden will call on Congress to suspend the federal gasoline and diesel tax for three months. Instead of suspending it, Gov J.B. Pritzker delayed the next motor fuel tax hike until after the election, hitting Illinois drivers with two hikes in 2023.
Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton was sentenced to one year in federal prison for embezzlement from a no-work union job. He sponsored the Amendment 1 proposal to make government unions nearly untouchable in Illinois.