Perhaps we should simply consider ourselves under a coronavirus watch.
It’s a difficult position for anyone making public pronouncements about healthcare.Â
The Illinois Department of Public Health recently took a big step in a wise direction when it acquired the ability to conduct in-state tests f…
The population of Illinois is going down. The state will lose at least one seat in the U.S. House of Representatives following the 2020 census.
The coronavirus has many of the things we fear and many more we’ve been taught to fear by popular culture.Â
How the state funds public education has been one of the thorniest of thorny subjects for years -- a Gordian knot of Illinois politics.
He did it for the children.
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