Illinois is raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025, and a Democratic lawmaker says that should be the base pay for all workers.

Here’s a link to the story at Illinois News Network.

For more than a year, state child welfare workers watched over 2-year-old Ja’hir Gibbons and his 5-year-old brother, looking for any signs that they had been physically abused.

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.

State Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady, R-Bloomington, is pushing a bill that would require high schools to offer an early college program.

Here’s a link to the story at Illinois News Network.

The pharmacy’s workers cleared the shelves. A maintenance crew took down the signs. And then they shut the pharmacy’s doors for the final time in July.

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.

Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated” with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election but reached no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice, Attorney General William Barr declared Sunday. That brought a hearty claim of vindication from Trump but set the stage for new rounds of political and legal fighting

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.