Microsoft’s 1st Mt. Pleasant data center fully online with 500 employees
Microsoft says that it has 550 full-time employees on site at the recently completed Fairview data center in Mount Pleasant. …
Group works to promote ‘pro-life safety net’ to care for abortion-vulnerable moms
A pro-life organization is working to provide a “pro-life safety net” to care for mothers and children in post-Dobbs America…
Illinois Quick Hits: $50.8M in cannabis tax-funded grants awarded
(The Center Square) – The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority has announced $50.8 million in Restore, Reinvest and Renew grants. …
Poll: Americans reject legal rights, ‘personhood’ for AI
A vast majority of Americans reject the idea of giving legal rights and 'personhood' to artificial intelligence, according to a…
New gun rules may be needed in IL after SCOTUS marijuana gun rights ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled occasional and "habitual" marijuana use alone cannot be used by governments as a reason…
Exclusive: Report warns of harmful rise in social ideology in medicine
Medical journals’ tripled engagement with non-health related factors such as environmental, economic, and social well-being over the past decade as…
Pritzker defends plan to raise tolls
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says higher proposed Illinois Tollway rates are for many users that travel to…
Illinois Quick Hits: Two charged with Medicare, Medicaid fraud
(The Center Square) – Two Chicago-area defendants have been charged in connection with alleged schemes to defraud Medicare and Medicaid…
Bill filed to repeal ‘punitive’ digital asset tax
(The Center Square) – An Illinois legislator is moving to repeal the state’s recently-passed digital asset tax. …
Chicago court keeps block on Florida suit over kids transgender medicine
Despite warnings from their colleague that they are ripping a hole in the U.S. Constitution and the concept of federalism,…
Damage costs still being assessed from record tornado numbers
(The Center Square) – The National Weather Service has confirmed a record 149 tornadoes have touched down in Illinois this…
Pritzker open to ‘fair’ data center development, local moratoriums
(The Center Square) – After legislation to heavily restrict the development of new data centers across Illinois failed to progress…