Illinois renters will soon have another chance to get some financial help.

Applications open Monday for a new round of rental assistance money, and $250 million in federal money is available from the American Rescue Plan.

Ancestry.com is facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly disclosing genetic information to an unauthorized third party, Blackstone, Inc.

The lawsuit was filed on Oct. 29, 2021, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

Chicago’s police pension obligations could increase by another $3 billion total through 2055 if the state of Illinois passes a proposed law designed to force the city to acknowledge its probable liabilities for annual pay increases to retirees.

Illinois State Senator Robert Martwick introduced legislation in February to remove a requirement that police retirees be born before 1966 to be eligible for a 3% automatic annual increase in payments. Martwick says the state legislature repeatedly has made the required birth date later to include more retirees, meaning the actual costs for Chicago end up being higher than expected. The new law would bring rules for police in line with firefighters, and make the city’s future costs more transparent, he said.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday she is “very excited” by the five “well thought out” bids she was dealt last week for a Chicago casino and plans to send a “final list to recommend” to the Illinois Gaming Board “sometime in the first quarter” of next year.

With police and fire pension funds hovering dangerously close to insolvency and mounting police retirements putting even more pressure on the police pension fund, Lightfoot set an aggressive timetable for moving forward on the downtown casino that had eluded Chicago mayors for decades.

Dr. Phyllis Zee, Chief of Sleep Medicine and Director of the Center for Circadian & Sleep Medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine, joins Anna to talk about the detrimental health impacts of having to change your clock between Standard and Daylight Saving Time. Also joining Anna is State Representative Mike Zalewski who talks about his effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the state.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) emergency temporary standard (ETS) that mandates the COVID-19 vaccine or weekly testing for employees of large companies nationwide is now in effect.

Under the ETS, private employers with 100 or more employees will be required to check that all workers have been vaccinated by January 4, 2022.