After being closed during 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois State Fair attendance rebounded nicely in 2021. With more than 472,000 visitors, the 2021 Illinois State Fair was the second-highest-attended fair since the department began tracking formal attendance numbers in 2014. Attendance at this year’s fair was surpassed only by 2019’s historic records. The first weekend of the 2021
Job seekers in Illinois are not keeping pace with those seeking work in other Midwestern states. At 7 percent, the state’s unemployment rate in August is the 8th highest in the country, lagging behind the national unemployment rate of 5.2 percent. Illinois payrolls are still missing 43 percent of jobs lost at the beginning of the pandemic. The U of
Democrat leaders continue to choose political power over the will of the people by once again not allowing sufficient public input into revised legislative maps forced through the General Assembly on Aug. 31 and signed into law on Sept. 24 by the Governor. It was the second time in five months Pritzker approved maps drawn up by his fellow Democrats
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