High property taxes, the state tax on gasoline and Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s handling of COVID-19 are all factors in the state’s lack of job growth, according to an analyst.

A report by Wirepoints looks at Illinois’ overall economic performance since Pritzker took office in 2019. The report shows 70,000 fewer jobs in that time frame and that its real GDP growth was 3.2% from 2019 to 2022, which ranked 10th worse in the country. 

The ability of Chicago aldermen to hold down outside jobs would be sharply curtailed under a proposed ordinance.

Ald. Andre Vasquez, 40th, is taking another stab at the measure that was sidelined last term that would bar him and City Council colleagues from holding outside jobs.

They look and operate like typical video gambling machines. But they’re unregulated and untaxed, thanks to loopholes in Illinois’ gaming laws.

And now, so-called “sweepstakes” machines are at the center of the latest public corruption trial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.

Oakbrook Terrace can’t have its red-light cameras at Route 83 and 22nd Street anymore, a DuPage County judge has ruled.

But the city is appealing that ruling.

Each time he stood before a Chicago traffic court judge and told his story, the judge asked his name.

“Jeffrey Kriv,” he’d say. That was true.

Then he’d raise his right hand and get sworn in. What came next was also consistent.

Four restaurants were burglarized in a matter of minutes.

In each case, the suspects used a tool to break in and steal cash. CBS 2’s Shardaa Gray spoke with one business owner whose cameras caught the thieves in the act.

The state is adding nearly 350 electric vehicle charging ports, including some in Central Illinois.

Officials of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday they are giving $12.6 million in grants to add 348 fast charging ports in public places across the state.

Illinois lawmakers passed 566 bills through both chambers of the General Assembly in the recently concluded legislative session – all but one of them in May.

It sets the table for an approximate three-month bill-signing season for Gov. JB Pritzker. That’s because the state’s constitution gives legislative leaders 30 days from a bill’s passage to send it to the governor, who then has 60 days to sign or veto it.