Gov. JB Pritzker said Tuesday that he “will not hesitate” to re-impose restrictions on the state if he sees signs that the coronavirus is making a resurgence in Illinois.

However, the governor would not say exactly what indicators he would use to determine that the state needs to take additional steps to prevent the spread of the virus.

Public schools across the state will receive an additional $50 million from the governor’s emergency education relief fund, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Tuesday.

The money will go toward closing the digital divide and training educators and families to assist students in using technology.

S&P Global Ratings called Illinois’ spending plan, which relies on borrowing billions from the Federal Reserve, “precariously balanced” as nonprofit groups weigh in how federal aid should be distributed to states.

The organization Truth in Accounting hosted a webinar titled “Federal aid to the states … with strings?” on Tuesday.

Illinois took in $52 million in tax revenue from adult-use marijuana sales in the first six months.

Since recreational marijuana became legal, dispensaries statewide have sold $239 million worth of product. The state collects both general sales taxes and taxes specific to marijuana.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently authorized $60 million dollars in emergency grants for 3,500 hard-hit Illinois businesses, but a business group said the state’s minimum wage increase could impede recovery.

Mark Grant, Illinois director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, said restaurants and bars are among those that will be eligible for the emergency grants.

Enforcement of city sticker and residential permit parking requirements won’t kick in until Aug. 1 — a two-week extension meant to allow motorists extra time to come into compliance.

The extension also comes as the city tries to keep up with a surge in city sticker and parking permit demand, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office said Tuesday.

McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks has two weeks to deposit $2,100 with the county’s circuit clerk’s office in connection with a judge’s May ruling finding Franks in indirect civil contempt.

Kane County Judge Kevin Busch found Franks in “friendly” contempt on May 19 for failure to disclose who funded a series of potentially defamatory flyers leading up to the March 2018 primary election. The flyers, which depicted McHenry County Clerk and Recorder Joe Tirio as a cartoon robber with a secret tax-payer funded slush fund, launched Tirio’s two-year-long probe into the players responsible for the flyers, known only as the Illinois Integrity Fund.

In a reversal, Arlington Heights trustees are now poised to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, at least to start, at the existing medical pot dispensary in town.

Board members Monday endorsed a proposed pilot program that would allow Verilife, at 1816 S. Arlington Heights Road, to begin selling to recreational users for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time. The committee-level board vote held virtually Monday night directs village staff to begin formal discussions with Verilife brass, who for months continued to lobby board members to reverse the ban imposed last November.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and local Ald. Tom Tunney (44^th) have agreed to loosen restrictions on the number of Friday and Saturday night games at Wrigley Field during this pandemic-shortened, 60-game season to minimize the health risk to players.

The one-year exception to the night game ordinance is on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting of the City Council’s License Committee.

Allies of two female Chicago police officers facing union discipline for kneeling in support of protesters gathered Tuesday outside the Fraternal Order of Police headquarters in the West Loop.

Officer Carmella Means was photographed holding a Black Lives Matter sign when she knelt, with a raised fist, outside the union’s headquarters in partial uniform while off duty. Officer Abigail Antunez was on duty when she knelt during a protest outside Chicago’s police academy.

Anyone involved in a traffic case in McHenry County now has the option to appear in court virtually, in line with ongoing accommodations prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A virtual courtroom hosted by the video conference platform Zoom will allow anyone with a petty traffic citation to attend court remotely in courtroom 102 at the Michael J. Sullivan Judicial Center in Woodstock. Parties aren’t required to call the McHenry County’s Circuit Clerk’s Office to request a remote appearance. Instead, the virtual courtroom is accessible through any smart phone, laptop, or desktop browser by going to https://zoom.us/my/mchenrycourtroom102 and using the meeting identification, 890-297-5604 and personal link name, mchenrycourtroom102.

As the start of a new school year looms, Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 is working out the complexities of reopening plans that will let parents choose how their children will learn in the midst of a pandemic.

The Illinois State Board of Education has issued broad guidance for bringing students back to school, but individual districts must navigate an assortment of logistical challenges extending into nearly every aspect of their operations.