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Rita Crundwell was comptroller for the City of Dixon, Illinois, until she was caught after swiping around $54 million dollars and sent to prison for a term of 19 and a half years. Now, she's out of jail.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says that there's $1.77 billion of unclaimed stimulus cash from that first round of payments at the beginning of the pandemic, and a good chunk went unclaimed here in Illinois.

With Arlington International Racecourse (Arlington Park) scheduled to close forever and on the market to be sold and potentially torn down, lots of speculation is going on about the Chicago Bears making that space their new home.

For nearly a week now, bobcats have been a pretty hot topic thanks to a video from North Carolina home's surveillance camera that went absolutely viral.

The American Hotel and Lodging Association's (AHLA) report on the state of the hotel industry in 2021 and going forward is, to say the least, not a pretty picture--especially here in Illinois.

We've been in Phase-3 of the "Restore Illinois" plan since late May, and according to current metrics, the earliest phase four of the plan could begin is this Friday.

Estimates peg Illinois' casino losses during the COVID-19 lockdown at nearly $100 million. Today, the Illinois Gaming Board will meet to talk about reopening strategies.

Our state's first full month of lockdown resulted in more recreational marijuana sales than we had in February and March, when we were free to move around.

As several Ivy League institutions recently discovered, taking bail-out money when you have a multi-billion dollar endowment is just not a good look.

How would you react to finding out that your stimulus check was $8,198,300 more than the $1,700 you were expecting?