If you've received a text message offering you the chance to update or "upgrade" your Illinois Driver's License to an Illinois Real ID, let's hope you deleted it and blocked the sender.
The Chicago Police Department recently released some new stats on crime, showing that while robbery and burglary were down in 2020, carjackings in Chicago are on a record-setting pace.
Scam artists tend to go where the money is. Considering how many of us have leaned heavily on Netflix and/or other streaming services to get us through pandemic lockdowns, scammers are finding ways to trick you out of your subscription fees.
Wow. 2021 is just full of surprises, huh? Who would have ever dreamed that Chicago would find itself atop the rankings in a measurement of city-level corruption? Or that the ranking would contain the word "again?"
When we initially booked an interview with our friend Adam Schuster, Senior Director of Budget and Tax Research for Illinois Policy, our topic was going to be what Governor Pritzker's recent budget address meant for business owners and everyday Illinoisans.
For the past four decades or so, wolves in upper Great Lakes states like Wisconsin have enjoyed protection from being hunted because of being placed on the Endangered Species List.