law

Who gets the dog? A new law will decide for Illinois pet owners in 2018.

There's been a lot of ink spilled and voices raised over the topic of budget cuts and their effect on the Winnebago County Sheriff's office. This morning, Winnebago County Sheriff Gary Caruana joined us on the WROK Morning Show to give his thoughts.

You might want to think twice before riding your hoverboard on this Northern Illinois town's sidewalks.

We hear about efforts like this every now and then, usually pushed by older residents in a community. However, in Gary, Ind., it's the youth pushing for a ban on saggy pants. The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that the Gary Youth Council, whose members are teens, plans to ask the City Council to endorse an ordinance requiring community service for those under 18 who wear sagging pants in publi

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Parents in Illinois citing religious objections in refusing to have their children immunized will have to get a doctor's signature confirming they've been informed of the risks. A bill signed into law this month requires parents of children entering kindergarten and grades six and nine to provide a Certificates of Religious Exemption with a health care provider's signature

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network Potentially life-saving drugs which are still in the testing phase will now be made available to certain patients in Illinois. Under newly signed legislation, patients who have been given two years or less to live can get medicine which has been only been through one round of federal testing...

As the scheduled end of this legislative session in Springfield approaches, the budget situation is sucking up much of the attention. But other pieces of legislation are making their way through the House and Senate. One bill heading for the Governor's desk would make it a crime to leave the family pet outside in extremely hot or cold weather...

State Rep. Joe Sosnowski recently joined the show to discuss the possibility of changing the Illinois Constitution to pave the way for pension reform in the state. It's not the first time I've heard the argument. As Sosnowski writes in an op-ed: I believe it is time to remove the single, most significant barricade to enacting meaningful pension reform, the pension protection clause...

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network A new law prohibiting secretly recording conversations has passed the General Assembly, replacing a law the Illinois Supreme Court tossed out in the spring. “What this bill does, most importantly, is to restore Illinois to a two-party, or all-party, consent state,” said the House sponsor, State Rep...