One is on the border of Homewood and East Hazel Crest. The other is in Waukegan. The gaming board chose it as the finalist for the south suburban license.

The board also picked the finalist for the Waukegan license. Both proposals can go ahead with construction. However, the board still has to approve their final licenses.

The State of Illinois is providing more pandemic-led relief to child care providers across the state.

Governor J.B. Pritzker was joined by Illinois Department of Human Services Secretary Grace Hou last Thursday in Chicago in announcing that $300 million in new relief grants will be made available to child care providers. The state is also extending a previous grant program by providing nearly $50 million to previous grant recipients.

A downstate Illinois lawmaker wants to make it illegal to deny someone a job over their vaccination status.

Republican State Rep. Adam Niemerg filed “The Freedom Act” this week.

First-time recreational cannabis buyers often feel the sticker shock.

With hefty taxes, an eighth of an ounce of fresh cannabis flower typically costs around $80 — far more than the price of black market weed.

A task force with the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority stalled out in trying to advance proposals to the General Assembly on whether people can bring lawsuits against individual police.

The ICJIA’s Task Force on Constitutional Rights and Remedies, a group of lawmakers and stakeholders in law enforcement and civil rights groups, was created as part of recent sweeping criminal justice and police regulations enacted earlier this year.

Gov. JB Pritzker continues to make frequent stops across the state to tout one of the marquee policy accomplishments of his first year in office and its ongoing benefits to Illinois communities.

That is the $45 billion Rebuild Illinois capital infrastructure plan, and on Wednesday he made multiple stops in southern Illinois to publicize the projects made possible by the bipartisan-approved infrastructure package.

Illinois sportsbooks reached a new monthly record for wagering and revenue for the first time since the reinstatement of in-person registration.

With more than $840 million in wagers, Illinois joined the top 18 legal sports betting markets in the U.S. that — using five weekends of football, the opening of the NBA season, and baseball’s postseason — set a market wagering record in October, according to PlayIllinois, which tracks the state’s regulated sports betting market.