The Illinois Department of Employment Security has extended state unemployment eligibility for an additional 20 weeks.

Illinois is one of 19 states that have extended the time period for people who have lost their jobs to claim benefits.

Illinois business organizations are hoping federal lawmakers can limit potential COVID-19 legal liabilities that state lawmakers haven’t tackled.

There have been more than 4,560 complaints filed across the country over COVID-19-related issues, according to a COVID-19 Complaint Tracker from the firm Hunton Andrews Kurth. While cases tracked include legal challenges against stay-at-home orders, the most common complaints in Illinois involved insurance.

An out-of-town developer’s request for $3.15 million in tax-increment financing funds for a long-stalled redevelopment of three historic downtown buildings was tabled by members of the Springfield City Council Tuesday night.

The new developer, Chesterfield Faring Ltd., a New York-based real estate merchant bank, is aiming to complete the long-delayed project, which would add 41 one- and two-bedroom apartments and ground-level retail to the Ferguson, Booth and Bateman-Kennedy buildings at the southwest corner of Sixth and Monroe streets.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has rescinded a requirement widely-criticized as a deal cut with a Chicago-area casino that required anyone hoping to place online bets for sporting events to register in person at a casino.

The move is projected to bring the state millions of dollars per month in additional revenue.

Winnebago County voters will decide the structure of county government after a circuit judge rejected a legal challenge posed by one County Board member to the petitions seeking to place the issue on the November ballot.

Chief Judge Eugene Doherty of the 17th Judicial Circuit Court late Monday ruled that Winnebago County Board member Paul Arena’s legal case failed to meet the standard required to keep the question off the ballot.

Several McHenry County Board members objected to Chairman Jack Franks’ decision to hold a special board meeting Wednesday morning, right before members were set to discuss a new budget policy Franks opposes.

The special meeting, scheduled Friday and announced in a press release Monday, will be focused on hearing testimonials from residents, business owners and nonprofit leaders about how they’ve been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.