Tax updates in Illinois. According to Senate Bill 642, the property tax benefit for low-income seniors is being extended.

The new law is known as the Unemployment Insurance Act; the three-year pilot program enabling workers who voluntarily leave ...

The Home Modification Program was recently announced by State Rep. Maurice West (D-Rockford). This program offers grant funding to help people with disabilities make changes to their homes so they can ...

RAMP earns $28,750 grant to grow Project SEARCH, helping students with disabilities gain job skills and internships for ...

A law that takes effect in the new year aims to improves protections for missing people with developmental disabilities. Senate Bill 1548 creates the Golden Search Awareness Program. State Senator ...

On a recent Sunday, I stood in the kitchen with my brother Daniel, watching as he cracked the fifth and final egg into a bowl ...

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CHICAGO (CBS) --A proposed change in Illinois law would eliminate the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities, but some fear it could leave the state's most vulnerable out of work altogether. In ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Friday denied Illinois' request to end court oversight of its disability services. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...

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