Supporters of the Illinois Invest In Kids scholarship program may be looking to make the program more accessible to families and donors alike.

The program allows donors to get a 75% income tax credit toward donations to fund school choice scholarships for qualified families throughout the state.

In a small southern Illinois town earlier this year, a 58-year-old employee at the Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center was accused of sexually assaulting a person with a “severe or profound intellectual disability.”

The victim, who was unable to give consent, was only identified in court records with the initials “E.K.” and the alleged assailant was later identified as a mental health technician at the 270-bed, state-run home who also was accused of a separate sexual assault of a girl under 13.

D&P Construction Co., Inc. — a waste-hauling business the FBI said nearly 20 years ago was secretly controlled by mob figures — has been hired to provide “refuse and debris removal services” on two taxiway construction projects at O’Hare Airport for a consortium led by F.H. Paschen and Turner Construction, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

D&P has been paid just under $20,000, according to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago Department of Aviation, which oversees O’Hare and Midway Airport.

The Chicago Transit Authority is proposing a no-harm 2023 budget today that includes no fare hikes or service cuts and continues to ramp up spending on capital projects.

But that good news may not continue much longer. Officials hint a staggering fiscal cliff lies just a little farther down the road, with the CTA and other Chicago-area transit agencies preparing to seek more financial aid from Springfield and Washington, D.C.