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New inspector general to victim: Hand over your cellphone and passwords

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- The newly appointed Inspector General in Springfield told the victim of alleged sexual harassment by a lawmaker to turn over unlimited access to her cell phone and social media account. Anti-abuse advocate Denise Rotheimer says Julie Porter, the woman lawmakers tabbed to be the Legislative Inspector General, asked for a little more of her private life than she wanted to give up. “What she was asking for was way too overreaching and unrelated to the […]

todayDecember 2, 2017 69

Business & Lifestyle

Chicago’s Best BBQ refutes false media reports about their business

CHICAGO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- A restaurant which has been active in Chicago's 34th Ward for the past three decades is fighting back against false media reports and "fake news" which has recently been levied against the business. In a press release made available Thursday, Best BBQ has proudly provided quality products and service to their customers since the late 1980s and expect to be around for the next three decades with continued support from the community. The release refutes the […]

todayDecember 1, 2017 46

Business News

Illinois considers following other U.S. states in buying hacking insurance

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- With data breaches becoming more and more common, states are beginning to join corporations in getting insured for data breaches. Despite a 2016 breach of voter data, Illinois is still on the fence about getting coverage. A survey of 42 state chief information officers released last month showed a growing number of them are putting taxpayer dollars into insurance plans against data breaches. Thirty-eight percent said their state had taken up an insurance plan compared to 20 percent […]

todayNovember 28, 2017 45

Business & Lifestyle

Read this before you buy someone Bitcoin as a gift

This story is part of a new MarketWatch series, “Gifts that pay off.” Between now and Dec. 25, we will look at gifts that could potentially earn the recipients money or improve their lives. (MarketWatch) -- Digital currency Bitcoin has gone from a strange fringe trend to a mainstream technological phenomenon in the past year, exploding in value to more than $10,000 per coin. While some people warn that the currency is a bubble doomed to pop, others say it’s […]

todayNovember 28, 2017 96

Business & Lifestyle

Illinois’ stagnant sales tax revenue indicator of flat economic activity

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- The state of Illinois is collecting more from individual workers' and businesses’ income, but the indication from other revenue sources is the state’s economy is flat. A tax professional says state lawmakers haven’t advanced solutions to grow the state’s economy. Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability (COGFA) Revenue Manager Jim Muschinske said individual income tax revenues are up from the year before, as are corporate tax receipts. From October of last year to this […]

todayNovember 28, 2017 19

Automotive News

Illinois could be one of the first states to have driverless vehicles on its roads

SPRINGFIELD (Illinois News Network) -- The head of the Illinois Department of Transportation says driverless cars are closer to the state’s roadways than you think. IDOT Director Randy Blankenhorn told a City Club of Chicago crowd earlier this month that the state is actively courting driverless vehicle testers to begin running on Illinois’ roadways. He says a task force with his department, the state police, the Secretary of State, and others are working to ensure Illinois is ready to be one […]

todayNovember 28, 2017 22

Ballot Access News

First day candidate filings for Montgomery County offices: November 27

HILLSBORO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Petitions were filed Monday by candidates wishing to be on the March 20 primary ballot through Montgomery County Clerk Sandy Leitheiser's office. Those filing candidate petitions Monday for the Democratic Party primary includes: Bryant Hitchings - State's Attorney, special election Nikki Lohman - County Treasurer Steven Traylor - County Board District 3, East Fork 3 Precinct Committeeman Ron Deabenderfer - County Board District 6 Jim Moore - Hillsboro 5 Precinct Committeeman Ted Ellizondo - North Litchfield […]

todayNovember 28, 2017 43

Governmental Watchdogs

In a tough year, some new Illinois laws to welcome

SPRINGFIELD (Heartland Newsfeed/Illinois Policy Institute) -- While 2017 was a bad year for Illinois taxpayers, there are bright spots among the bills that passed the General Assembly. There’s no doubt 2017 was a rough year for taxpayers across Illinois. The General Assembly voted for a state budget that included a massive income tax hike with no real reforms, which hit the pocketbooks of millions of Illinoisans. Despite this, some of the bills that passed the General Assembly and were signed […]

todayNovember 26, 2017 40

Business & Lifestyle

DABROWSKI: A near-perfect way to hike property taxes in Illinois

Local officials and union leaders have employed a near-perfect method to pressure residents into accepting higher taxes year after year: Sell the idea that communities around them are more generous than their own. To do that, they consistently point to neighboring communities’ higher salaries, benefits and programs to justify additional spending, then push their own residents into accepting higher taxes to pay for that spending. And if that’s not enough to make the sale, the threat of strikes and binding arbitration only builds additional […]

todayNovember 26, 2017 76

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