Springfield News
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DEC 03, 2019
Illinois has automatically registered 136,512 new voters and updated information for 548,644 in the past year, according to a new report from the Illinois State Board of Elections on the status of automatic voter registration — a law signed in 2017, but delayed by old technology and other obstacles.
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The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s staff has been cut nearly in half since 2003 and those who remain can’t keep up with the workload, according to a new report published Thursday by two former agency directors and researchers from the University of Chicago Law School.
Bubbly Creek. [USGS Illinois Water Science Center]
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The first day of the week-long petition filing period to get on the March 17 primary ballot saw 406 candidates turn in their signatures to the State Board of Elections headquarters in Springfield on Monday.
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Monday marks the first day of the week-long candidate filing period, in which the petitions passed to get on the March primary ballot must be turned in to the State Board of Elections for certification. Meanwhile, the Illinois State Board of Education reported to the General Assembly last week that 31 former agency employees had their social security numbers exposed to a third party in error.
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NOV 22, 2019
A months-long review of the Department of Children and Family Services’ child abuse and neglect hotline concluded what both the agency and mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect have known for years: the hotline needs far more employees in order to quickly answer every call.
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Cook County’s Public Guardian is urging a federal judge to accelerate a lawsuit that challenges the Department of Children and Family Services practice of allowing foster children to languish in psychiatric hospitals beyond medical need if the agency can’t find a place for a child, saying the situation has gotten worse.
