The state’s largest unfunded debt will likely continue to linger when lawmakers return to finish the final three weeks of the legislative session.

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released results of its 2017 census of every farm in the country. That includes the 72,651 farms in Illinois, which generated $17 billion in revenue that year, a $3 billion increase from 2012, the last time the once-every-five-years census was conducted.

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Gov. J.B. Pritzker is setting aside a controversial proposal to reduce the state’s payment to its severely underfunded pension plans for the coming budget year after tax revenue collected last month far exceeded expectations.

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

The Illinois Department of Transportation is hoping that some personal stories get people to be safer on the roads before hitting the highways this summer.

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Some Illinois State Police troopers clocked in Monday wearing hardhats instead of uniforms as part of an operation to catch drivers speeding through construction zones.

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CHRISTOPHER — From the time he was in middle school, Kody Vanfossan was fascinated by firefighting.

Here’s a link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.

CARBONDALE — Two pillars of the Carbondale and SIU communities died over the weekend — Harvey Welch and Seymour Bryson.

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The city of Rockford is ramping up its efforts to land a new casino.

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A Department of Children and Family Services worker who had in-home interaction with Andrew “A.J.” Freund and the worker’s supervisor have been placed on administrative duties as the state agency investigates what it could have done differently to prevent the 5-year-old boy’s death. That’s according to Acting DCFS Director Marc Smith, who was grilled during a legislative hearing Friday afternoon in Chicago, just two days after Freund’s body was found and his parents were charged with the boy’s murder.

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

A man who fatally shot a would-be carjacker in the Loop has been cleared through investigation and will not be charged with a crime, Chicago police said Sunday morning.

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