Illinois
Since Prime Healthcare acquired St. Mary of Nazareth and seven other area hospitals, several nurses at the Chicago hospital say conditions have deteriorated, prompting them to speak out and consider unionizing. They were fired soon after.
Illinois will soon join 35 states that have already prohibited or limited cellphone use in classrooms after state lawmakers took action on Sunday. The legislation is expected to go into effect for the 2027-2028 school year.
A bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature would bar new immigration detention centers from being built within 1,500 feet of certain community buildings.
The legislation removes hormone and abortion medications from the state’s prescription monitoring program, require insurers licensed in Illinois to cover at least six months of hormone prescriptions by 2028, and creates a framework for youth in foster care to have a say when they are being moved out of state.
The Interchange Fee Prohibition Act was set to take effect on July 1 but lawmakers voted to put it on hold for a year.
Thousands of property listings are back on Zillow’s website, after Lisle-based Midwest Real Estate Data cut off the company’s access to its listing data feed.
The loss of Zillow’s Chicago-area listings makes a behind-the-scenes real estate fight public. And it could hinder consumers in their search to buy a home.
The state has about 1.5 million lead pipes still in use, with more than 400,000 in Chicago.
The concentration of plastics shows the need for laws to prevent them from entering the water, an environmental group says.
Proposal could bump gas bills by an average $72 a year for the company’s 2.3 million customers in the northern part of the state.
The risk for hantavirus to spread in Illinois remains very low, state health officials emphasized.
Access to mifepristone via telehealth and through the mail is likely to remain uninterrupted into next year at least as the case plays out, including a potential appeal to the high court.
AI data centers are helping drive up costs for consumers as demand is beginning to threaten the power supply.
A baby hasn’t been illegally surrendered in Illinois since July 2023, according to the Save Abandoned Babies Foundation. That’s a total of more than 1,000 days and counting, nearly double the previous record.
The public health agency believes the person, who resides in Winnebago County, was exposed to rodent droppings while cleaning a home.
Parent company Instructure temporarily took the system offline while it investigated a hack last week, locking out students and faculty around the country.