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An Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigator receives a starting salary as high as $72,000, compared to just $43,000 for an equivalent position in Missouri.
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The Lovejoy apartment complex, soon to be built in downtown Alton, is to be complete by the end of 2026 and house 120 family units. In all, the project will cost more than $50 million. The company building the complex received more than $1 million in federal funding for construction on Tuesday.
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The new Metro East facility will serve lower-income families near O’Fallon, Shiloh, Lebanon and east Belleville. Center directors said they observed a need for such a facility as St. Clair County residents moved east.
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The Illinois State Board of Education found Grant Community Consolidated School District 110 as being in "financial difficulty" last week. The teachers' union says the superintendent should resign.
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The East St. Louis race riot in 1917 is one of the most violent race massacres in the country and the most violent riot in the area. This riot was a predecessor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921, and Viola Fletcher, one of the last survivors of the riot, said Tuesday at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville that reparations are due to survivors and their descendants.
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The courthouse will remain open to the public, but the southwest entrance and the pedestrian crosswalk tunnel between the South First Street public parking garage and courthouse will be temporarily closed.
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Thomas Clatterbuck, a law student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Joshua Loyd, an entrepreneur and Army veteran, will face off in the March 19 primary for the GOP nomination.
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The commission was formed by the Illinois General Assembly in 2021 to consider new funding formulas for its public universities.
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More than half of Illinois' teachers surveyed said they are ready to embrace social studies standards that include teaching LGBTQ+, Asian American, and pre-enslavement Black history in its public schools.
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While both Republican candidates voting records align with National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America, they differ on an issue going before the U.S. Supreme Court this week.