Kane County Reporter

Illinois' Syverson on soaring immigrant health care costs: We warned that 'Illinois would become a magnet'

By Tamara Browning | May 20, 2023

Illinois state Sen. Dave Syverson (R-Cherry Valley) stated that the high costs of the state’s free health care program for immigrants lacking permanent legal status is putting pressure on the state’s budget.

Act-of-Duty Bill ensures first responders disabled on the job during COVID-19 ‘get the benefits they are entitled to’

By Tamara Browning | May 17, 2023

Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law on May 10 the Act-of-Duty Bill that will provide disability payments for first responders who got COVID-19.

Illinois State Rep. McLaughlin: Illinois is state of fraudulent IDES claims where ‘the buck stops nowhere’

By Tamara Browning | Aug 23, 2022

An Illinois state representative who is a small businessman and financial expert has criticized Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s administration for failure to report fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims.

DeWitte says bill preventing social isolation in nursing homes is ‘bipartisanship at its best’

By Tamara Browning | Jul 6, 2021

An Illinois Republican state senator and the chief co-sponsor of a bill that would help prevent nursing home residents’ social isolation has thanked a Democratic senator “for bringing this bill forward” as it passed in the Senate.