Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office on Tuesday launched a new website allowing people to put their name in for temporary state positions that would become available in the event AFSCME goes on strike.

The website, statejobs.illinois.gov, is basic. It only asks for contact information, a preference for what counties a person wants to work in and what job category they’d be interested in filling. It also asks if applicants are interested in temporary work, permanent jobs or both. People who want to apply for specific state jobs should continue to use the existing job application process, which includes listings at work.illinois.gov.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday announced plans to revamp the state’s system for insuring many of its poorest residents, saying the changes could save taxpayers money and improve health.

But it remains uncertain how much money the overhaul might save the cash-strapped state.

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration is seeking to offer more Medicaid services through managed-care programs.

Rauner and two cabinet members announced the plan in Chicago on Monday. It involves choosing a vendor that will provide managed-care services to 80 percent of Medicaid clients.

Christopher Hurley’s letter to the editor, “Weak oversight of workers’ comp insurers should be Illinois’ focus,” advances the false narrative that insurance company profiteering is the cause of expensive workers’ compensation insurance in Illinois. Hurley, a Chicago-based personal injury lawyer, is president of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. His claim about profiteering is demonstrably false, and is an attempt to draw attention away from the real cost drivers that make Illinois home to the most expensive workers’ compensation system in the region. Illinois’ system drives manufacturers and workers out of the state while enriching personal injury attorneys like Hurley.

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is supporting a bill that would require testing of groundwater near quarries where construction debris is dumped.

As Better Government Association investigative reporter Brett Chase points out in a story published Saturday, the legislation floating around the Illinois legislature pits environmental and public health concerns at odds with quarry owners and construction companies.

More than $55 million went back to Illinois municipalities from video gaming in 2016. But how do those communities use those funds?

Springfield Budget Director Bill McCarty says the city received about $1.5 million from video gaming last year. Those funds generally contribute to the city’s capital improvement projects, like sidewalk and street maintenance.

In an extraordinary move, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office is investigating whether a former Chicago police sergeant convicted of corruption tainted far more convictions than those of the three defendants he’s already been held responsible for framing.

Prosecutors confirmed the investigation as a University of Chicago lawyer on Monday withdrew his request that a “special master” be appointed, saying that step was unnecessary now that prosecutors agreed to pore over potentially hundreds of tainted convictions involving ex-Sgt. Ronald Watts and officers he supervised.

A man prosecutors say paid a $15,000 bribe to Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown to secure a job was sentenced to three years of probation Monday for lying to a federal grand jury investigating pay-to-play allegations in Brown’s office.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman spared Sivasubramani Rajaram from prison, saying she took into account the toll the case has taken on his mental health as well as his family. The judge said his actions undermined the public’s faith in the criminal justice system but also commented that his lies did not amount to “the crime of the century.”

Grammy-winning artist Chance the Rapper and Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner plan to meet this week to discuss funding education in Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools upped the stakes of its legal challenge to state education funding on Monday, warning that the school year could end two weeks early and summer school programs could be cut if the district doesn’t get a quick and favorable ruling.

“These possibilities are deeply painful to every school community,” district CEO Forrest Claypool said in a letter to CPS families in which he asked them “to add your voices to this fight.”

A second judge has tossed a case brought by former Gov. Pat Quinn calling for the Chicago Board of Education to be transformed into an elected body.

Cook County Chancery Court Judge Michael Mullen granted the board’s motion to dismiss the case Monday afternoon, ruling mayoral control over the seven-member body does not violate the voting rights of Chicago residents.

Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts said Monday that the team plans to work with city officials to put together an attractive bid to host baseball’s 2020 All-Star Game at Wrigley Field.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to sit down with the city here over the next few months and iron out what it takes to be the leading bidder,” Ricketts said during an appearance at a City Club of Chicago luncheon.

The board of directors responsible for managing the city’s downtown entertainment venues is asking the City Council to think twice before spending millions of dollars from a tax intended to support the venues and other redevelopment efforts on a downtown hotel and conference center project.

While Rockford Area Venues & Entertainment Authority has spent the past seven years stabilizing its once dire operating budget, it has yet to establish a long-term plan to ensure that money is set aside for future building maintenance, repair and replacement needs. The authority is responsible for managing the city’s BMO Harris Bank Center and Coronado Performing Arts Center — downtown venues that RAVE officials say are collectively worth some $200 million.

Construction has begun on a $5.25 million three-story brick-and-glass building at Prospect Road and Kelly Avenue planned to be mixed retail, restaurant and office space. …

The new construction is in both a Tax Increment Financing district and an Enterprise Zone, meaning the owner will receive an exemption on sales taxes on building material purchases and an undetermined break on property taxes. Unlike the nearby Trefzger’s development, the developer did not ask for or receive a loan from the village as an incentive to build.

On Tuesday night, the O’Fallon District 203 School Board will consider a deficit-reduction plan to address what Superintendent Darcy Benway says is a financial crisis.

The district is projecting a $2.3 million deficit by fiscal year 2017-18.