High school students often spend hours studying and stressing over the SAT or ACT, but now a new Illinois law will make putting those scores on a college application optional.

It only works when applying to schools in the state.

The office of legislative inspector general in Illinois does not have as much power as some would like. One of those people is the current inspector general, retired judge Carol Pope, who has submitted her resignation to the Legislative Ethics Commission.

Pope called the position a “paper tiger.”

Illinois was named the best state for infrastructure by CNBC.

The network ranked the best infrastructure states in its America’s Top States for Businessstudy. Aspects looked at include roads, bridges, airports, utilities and broadband, along with site availability and sustainability.

Illinois has received 70,000 applications from tenants and landlords for back rent payments because of COVID-19 hardships.

Rodrigo Carrillo, the director of Strategic Initiatives for the Illinois Housing Development Authority, says the department encouraged landlords to initiate applications on their tenants behalf during a three week period.

Governor JB Pritzker plans to sign a potential fix for the state’s broken marijuana dispensary lottery.

The last attempt failed after the pool did not have enough social equity applicants.

JB Pritzker joined a bipartisan group of mayors and governors who met with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday.

The Illinois governor said he asked for more money to be spent on early childhood education.