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Sean Grayson Sonya Massey

Capitol News Illinois

Illinois Prisoner Review Board denies Grayson early release

SPRINGFIELD – Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson will remain in prison, at least for the time being. The Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted unanimously Friday to deny Grayson’s application for compassionate release.  Grayson is serving a 20-year sentence for second-degree murder for the 2024 killing of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman who had called authorities to report a possible prowler outside her home. He had applied for release under Illinois’ Joe Coleman Act, citing his diagnosis of […]

todayJuly 31, 2026

cell phone ban

Capitol News Illinois

Gov. Pritzker signs school cell phone ban

ELGIN -- Students in all Illinois public schools will soon have to abide by rules barring them from using cell phones or other personal electronic communication devices during school hours unless they have been given specific permission to use them. Although many districts already have similar policies in place, Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday that will require all districts to have “bell-to-bell” device bans in place before the start of the 2027-2028 school year. The goal, Pritzker said, is […]

todayJuly 29, 2026

Carol Ammons Aaron Ammons

Capitol News Illinois

Ammons, husband pleads not guilty to corruption charges

URBANA — State Rep. Carol Ammons and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, entered not guilty pleas to federal corruption charges Thursday while their supporters claimed their prosecutions were racially motivated. The two were charged in an indictment handed down July 7 in the Central District of Illinois. They made initial appearances in separate hearings before a federal magistrate judge who summarized the charges and explained their rights. Their trial was tentatively set for Sept. 22, although that is likely to […]

todayJuly 16, 2026

Illinois Department of Human Services

Capitol News Illinois

Illinois DHS reports yearslong data breach

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) -- The Illinois Department of Human Services disclosed recently that it mistakenly uploaded private health-related information about hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans to a publicly accessible website and left it there for more than three years before it discovered the mistake. But the agency would not explain this week why it took officials so long to discover the problem or why officials waited more than three months after it was discovered to notify the individuals affected […]

todayJanuary 6, 2026 15 7

Lake County Highland Park shooter

Capitol News Illinois

Highland Park shooter pleads guilty

WAUKEGAN (Capitol News Illinois) — Robert Crimo III, the man accused of carrying out a mass shooting in Highland Park in 2022 that left seven people dead and prompted the passage of a ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines in Illinois, pleaded guilty Monday to all charges stemming from that shooting. Crimo’s trial on 69 counts of murder and attempted murder, was set to begin Monday in a Lake County courtroom. But before the start of opening arguments in […]

todayMarch 4, 2025

Illinois math scores

Capitol News Illinois

Effort planned to boost student math scores in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Illinois education officials plan to launch a statewide initiative over the next several months aimed at boosting student performance in math. State Superintendent of Education Tony Sanders made that announcement during a recent media briefing to unveil the most recent school report card. That annual report shows how individual schools, districts, and the state as a whole are performing across a wide range of educational measures, including academic performance in English language arts, and math. “This […]

todayNovember 3, 2024

Illinois Trump

Capitol News Illinois

Illinois ballot challenge of Trump to move forward

CHICAGO (Capitol News Illinois) -- A Cook County judge ruled Wednesday that a case seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the March 19 Republican primary ballot in Illinois will move forward independently of a similar case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Following a brief hearing conducted by videoconference, Judge Tracie Porter denied a motion by the Trump campaign to delay the proceedings until after the Supreme Court rules in a similar case from Colorado. She said she […]

todayFebruary 7, 2024

Illinois Trump

Capitol News Illinois

Trump faces ballot challenge in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) -- Illinois is now among the growing list of states in which former President Donald Trump will have to fight to have his name appear on the 2024 election ballots. A group of five voters filed a joint objection to Trump’s candidacy Thursday, arguing that Trump should be disqualified under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits anyone who took part in an insurrection against the United States from holding federal office. The objection alleges […]

todayJanuary 5, 2024

Illinois Native Americans

Capitol News Illinois

Pritzker signs bills expanding protections for Native Americans

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker signed a package of bills Friday extending cultural protections to Native Americans in Illinois and requiring the teaching of Native American history in public schools. At a bill signing ceremony in Schaumburg, Pritzker highlighted three historic sites that were significant in Native American history in Illinois – the Buel House along the Cherokee Trail of Tears in Pope County; the Pierre Menard Home in Randolph County; and the Kincaid Mounds that contain the remains of a Native American […]

todayAugust 8, 2023 1

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