Illinois is the first state to adopt a new law providing students flexibility to modify their sports uniforms.

The Inclusive Athletic Attire Act allows student athletes, male or female, the freedom to modify sports uniforms according to their cultural, religious, physical comfort and modesty preferences without the need for a waiver or a penalty.

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In the last 40 years, the Democratic Party has elected politicians who have messed up the state of Illinois with complacency, corruption and taking money out of the state’s public pension funds for their own self-interest.

St. Charles aldermen and residents are voicing concerns about the size of a 340-unit apartment community proposed near the city’s east side.

Wisconsin-based Continental Properties wants to build the apartment community on the 27 acres north of Smith Road at Pheasant Trail known as the Petkus property. The site is in unincorporated Wayne Township, but St. Charles could annex it under the conditions of a boundary agreement between West Chicago and St. Charles.

When she presented her budget, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot proposed a program that would give $500 a month to 5,000 low-income households for one year.

The city said it would help those who were hit hard by the pandemic and are in need of additional economic stability.