A recent report from the Illinois Policy Institute think tank uses Census migration data to show what the group calls an “inflection point in its economic crisis.”

In 2014 the state had the second largest net loss of people moving to other states in the nation, behind New York. This trend, which recorded a “mass exodus” of 95,000 residents to other states last year, makes it crucial for newly elected governor Bruce Rauner to push for doing away with the 2011 tax hikes. Other states that had big losses in domestic migration included New Jersey, California and Pennsylvania.

States with the largest increases tended to be in the south:

A wide-ranging network of suburban bus routes could transform the way people commute and shop, connecting people to job centers in Naperville, Elgin and Elk Grove Village, according to an ambitious $2.3 billion plan shared by Pace on Tuesday.

Express buses with high-tech amenities would take riders from the south suburbs to O’Hare International Airport. Or from McHenry south to Oswego via Randall Road. Or from Evanston to O’Hare along Dempster Street.

And buses would travel on the shoulder of the Jane Addams and Edens expressways, bypassing car traffic.

Police officers in Wicker Park and Logan Square will pilot a new body camera program within the next few weeks.

Officers in the Shakespeare District, who generally work from 2 p.m. to midnight, will test cameras clipped to their body and glasses that will “record all routine calls of service, investigatory stops, traffic stops, foot and vehicle pursuits, emergency driving situations and high-risk situations,” according to a police news release.

Officers will tell people who come in contact with them that they are being recorded.

The district will be testing 30 such cameras over a 45- to 60-day period, after which the Chicago Police Department will determine what to do with the program.

Gov. Bruce Rauner marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day by signing an executive order requiring labor unions and companies that do business with the state to report on how many minorities and veterans participate in apprenticeship and training programs.

Some trade groups have been criticized for a lack of minorities among their ranks. Such training programs can lead to stable, good-paying jobs, and the new governor said the idea is to “see firsthand in the light of day what is going on.”

“There’s a saying that you can’t manage what you don’t measure,” said Rauner, who signed the order at a Southwest Side high school. “I want to measure the results. … Then we’ll decide from there, when we know the facts and we see the trends, what appropriate action we can take further.”

It’s a new era in law enforcement. In the age of smart phones, YouTube and Facebook, police officers across the country have unwittingly starred in online videos viewed and shared thousands of times as they become viral.

Generally, the videos are taken by citizens alleging police misconduct, as was the case with a video shot by SIU student Matt Fedora and posted on his personal Facebook page Friday.

In the video, Fedora accuses a Carbondale police officer of sleeping on the job in the early morning hours in the parking lot of the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday will introduce an ordinance to transfer at least 20 acres of public parkland to the city if President Barack Obama decides to build his library and museum in either Washington Park or Jackson Park on the South Side, according to a source close to the process.

The move, designed to strengthen the University of Chicago’s bid to place the library in one of the two parks, would allow the Chicago Park District to transfer either 20 acres in Jackson Park or approximately 21 acres in Washington Park.

The transfer, however, would take place only if the U. of C. is selected to host the presidential center. If one of the other three bidders — the University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University in New York or the University of Hawaii in Honolulu — is chosen to host the library, the land would remain in the hands of the Park District, according to the intergovernmental agreement.