Rep. Brad Stephens (R-Chicago) said the Legislative Audit Commission questioned Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith about repeated deaths and contempt of court citations.
Rep. Amy Grant (R-Wheaton) is drawing attention to the high number of carjackings that took place in Chicago last year and calls for the SAFE-T Act to be repealed.
Chicago firefighters responding to a fire in the Roseland area on the afternoon of Feb. 12 were thrown off the front porch of the house by a flashover.
With Chicago and Cook counties seeing a pension and retiree health shortfall of $122 billion and state pension obligation bonds at $9 billion, according to a Wirepoints report, one political strategist is blaming "wildly excessive pension benefits" as the culprit.