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Public leadership program aims to bring sustainable food system to Illinois

CHICAGO (INC/PNS) -- From farm to table, a public leadership program is working to bring more sustainable food systems to the greater Chicago area in Illinois. The HEAL Food Alliance's School of Public Leadership (SoPL) is helping warehouse workers and urban farmers to build inclusive, worker-focused food systems. Felix Ortiz, community health navigator at the Joliet-based Warehouse Workers for Justice, is a member of the program's newest cohort. He additionally said the initiative helps his organization develop new tactics to advocate for better conditions […]

todayMarch 7, 2022 120

Illinois DCFS

Capitol News Illinois

DCFS Director comes under fire for child deaths, improper placements

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) -- A Cook County judge this week found the director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in contempt for the fifth and sixth time this year for housing two girls in locked psychiatric facilities unnecessarily. Director Marc Smith faced four previous contempt citations for failing to place children in proper homes in violation of court orders. Each of the six contempt citations included a $1,000-per-day fine for Smith. After being found in contempt, […]

todayMarch 4, 2022 65

Ryan Pedon Illinois State

NCAA Basketball

Pedon newest Illinois State men’s basketball head coach

NORMAL -- Ryan Pedon is no stranger to basketball. Pedon played basketball for the College of Wooster from 1996 to 2000. After graduating, he went to become a graduate assistant at Miami (OH) until 2002 while getting a Master's degree in sports organization. He would return to Miami as an assistant coach in 2005 after serving as director of basketball operations for Kent State. In 2010, Pedon left Miami for Toledo, also as an assistant. In 2013, he became an […]

todayMarch 4, 2022 174

Baby Sophia Davis

Capitol News Illinois

Baby dies amid child abuse allegations

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Sophia Faye Davis loved to eat noodles. She slept with a stuffed hippo that made soothing sounds and reflected stars on her ceiling. She sang and danced as she pounded on the keys of her toy piano. These are the memories of her only child that Cassy Needham clings to – not the final month of Sophia’s life that was filled with child abuse allegations, failed investigations, and ignored pleas for help that ended with […]

todayMarch 4, 2022 60

Illinois mask mandates

Illinois

Illinois mask mandates ending for most Monday

[media-credit name="ARTURO REY/UNSPLASH PHOTO" align="none" width="640"][/media-credit] SPRINGFIELD (The Center Square) – For most of the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois residents have been mandated to wear masks indoors per Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s executive orders. That ends Monday. Earlier this month, Pritzker announced Feb. 28 will be the end of his statewide mandate for people to wear masks indoors in most settings, regardless of whether they’re healthy or not. He’s embroiled in a court battle over his mandates […]

todayFebruary 25, 2022 61

Illinois Restaurant Association Sam Toia

Illinois

Illinois restaurant group opposes minimum wage hike

SPRINGFIELD (The Center Square) – If a new bill becomes law, Illinois workers who get tips will receive the state’s minimum wage in addition to their tip money. State Rep. Camille Lilly (D-Chicago) has introduced House Bill 5139, which would allow servers and bartenders to receive the state’s minimum wage starting in 2025 in addition to their tips. “This is the beginning of addressing poverty for each and every worker across the state of Illinois,” Lilly said at a press conference introducing […]

todayFebruary 24, 2022 88

Illinois Supreme Court

Capitol News Illinois

State files appeal to Supreme Court on mask mandate ruling

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – The Illinois Supreme Court is being asked to review the state’s mask mandate and other COVID-19 mitigation orders for K-12 schools on an expedited schedule. Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a petition for appeal Tuesday, along with a motion for an emergency stay of a Sangamon County judge’s order to block enforcement of the rules. On Feb. 4, Sangamon County Circuit Judge Raylene Grischow issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of the rules which, […]

todayFebruary 24, 2022 54

Illinois Appellate Court of Appeals Springfield Pritzker

Capitol News Illinois

Illinois appellate court: No ruling on COVID-19 restraining order

SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) – Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration said Friday it will ask the Illinois Supreme Court for an “expedited review” of an appellate court’s decision not to rule on a lower court order that invalidated COVID-19 mitigation measures for roughly 170 school districts that were parties in a set of consolidated lawsuits. Late Thursday night, the 4th District Court of Appeals said it would not review the temporary restraining order issued Feb. 4 by a Sangamon County judge, calling the issue “moot” […]

todayFebruary 18, 2022 95

Illinois

Illinois

Volatile weather in Illinois to create problematic conditions

SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is advising the public that a major storm with heavy rains, flooding, and double-digit snowfalls will create slick conditions, impacting travel across much of the state starting tonight through Thursday. The mixture of precipitation and rapidly changing weather likely will produce the potential for sudden icing on roads, with high winds leading to blowing snow and reduced visibility. “The Illinois Department of Transportation’s snow-and-ice teams will be prepared and out in force," […]

todayFebruary 16, 2022 30

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