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Healing Through History: IL Senate passes bill helping families receive foster care records
Illinois Politics
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Healing Through History: IL Senate passes bill helping families receive foster care records

  • Mike Miletich
  • Updated Apr 16, 2026

The Illinois Senate unanimously passed a plan Wednesday to help ensure foster families have access to a child's full history before an adoption is finalized.

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Healing Through History: IL plan could help families receive foster care records

Healing Through History: IL plan could help families receive foster care records

  • Updated Mar 9, 2026

A bill moving in the state capitol could help ensure foster families have access to a child's full history before an adoption is finalized.

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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show shatters global viewership records
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Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show shatters global viewership records

  • Updated Mar 3, 2026
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No small feat: Great Dane newly crowned as World's Tallest Dog
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No small feat: Great Dane newly crowned as World's Tallest Dog

  • Updated Jan 20, 2026
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Pritzker signs Clean Slate Act into law, nonviolent felony records to be automatically sealed in 2029

Pritzker signs Clean Slate Act into law, nonviolent felony records to be automatically sealed in 2029

  • Updated Jan 16, 2026

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a monumental bill into law Friday to automatically seal records for people convicted of nonviolent felonies.

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Looking ahead: What Illinois lawmakers could address in 2026

Looking ahead: What Illinois lawmakers could address in 2026

  • Updated Jan 1, 2026

Illinois lawmakers ended 2025 with two bills left on Gov. JB Pritzker's desk and several plans failing to cross the finish line during veto session.

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House passes bill to automatically seal nonviolent felony records, sends Clean Slate Act to governor's desk

House passes bill to automatically seal nonviolent felony records, sends Clean Slate Act to governor's desk

  • Updated Oct 30, 2025
U of I system sets several enrollment records
Education
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U of I system sets several enrollment records

  • WAND Digital Team
  • Updated Sep 10, 2025

URBANA, Ill. (WAND) — The University of Illinois system set a fall enrollment record, with over 101,000 students on its campuses in Urbana-Cha…

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Springfield's 'Dumb' record store proves vinyl's staying power

Springfield's 'Dumb' record store proves vinyl's staying power

  • Updated Aug 12, 2025

Vinyl was a prevalent music method, and local music stores in Central Illinois are keeping it alive.

Positive drug test will no longer stop records expungements in new law
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Positive drug test will no longer stop records expungements in new law

  • Jun 2, 2022

CHICAGO (WAND) - A new law will make it easier for Illinoisans to expunge or seal a felony drug conviction, even if they test positive for can…

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