Section: Local

Constitutional amendment would be required to make Illinois like the federal government

Could be $5.6B by June 30

Speech is Wednesday at noon

Set to revert to 3.75 percent after this year unless lawmakers act otherwise

A southern Illinois school district is weighing its options after an activist group has threatened to sue if prayers offered at graduation ceremonies aren’t halted.

Retrials of cases from the era of Abraham Lincoln have helped raise money to conserve rare maps and photographs, including of early Illinois Supreme Court justices.

A director of the Department of Juvenile Justice will be taking the helm of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Lawmakers will be back in Springfield beginning next week, but the leader of the Republicans in the Illinois Senate doesn’t sound hopeful that much will get done over the coming months.

The Illinois Supreme Court says the Gillespie school district can’t sue an architectural firm for building a school over an underground coal mine that later collapsed, causing the school to be torn down.

The city of Clinton is looking into lifting its long-time ban on Sunday liquor sales at certain establishments.