Lawmakers passed a legislative fix during the recently adjourned fall veto session which proponents say could help the state realize $380 million in annual tax revenue by increasing compliance with existing online retail transaction tax laws.

Supporters say the new law will ensure the state’s full 6.25 percent sales tax rate and any locally-imposed taxes will be collected at the point of destination on sales made through online marketplaces or by remote retailers that do a certain amount of business in the state.

The operator of a Summit bar that’s come under scrutiny as part of a political corruption investigation in the southwest suburbs is an associate of a top political operative for Ald. Edward Burke and state Sen. Martin Sandoval, both facing their own problems with federal investigators.

Mariano “Mario” Martinez — who runs Mars Bar, 6030 S. Harlem Ave. — has personal and professional connections to Rudy Acosta Sr., a Burke precinct captain and Sandoval pal, according to records and interviews.

Soon-to-be interim Chicago Police Supt. Charlie Beck said Friday he’s “never seen a city get high marks” on its first report card after a consent decree, including his hometown of Los Angeles that made a “successful exit” from federal court oversight.

One week after a federal monitor reported the Chicago Police Department had missed 37 of 50 deadlines to implement specific reforms, Beck said that was not at all unusual.

The Woodstock City Council is considering the issuance of $10 million in bonds to resurface city roads and could use a local gas tax to help pay off that debt.

City officials held a public information session about the matter Thursday. The city roads are steadily deteriorating, and the proposal includes plans to resurface up to 22 miles of streets out of a total 117 miles in Woodstock. The project could cost up to $12 million and would focus on roads that have been deemed in “fair to poor” condition, according to city documents.

The cost of running Champaign County government services will rise 5.5 percent next year.

The county board on Thursday approved a $129.6 million budget for 2020, with the increase tied largely to higher personnel and services costs.

Two days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered Illinois schools to immediately stop secluding children alone in timeout rooms, educators and parents tried to grasp the implications of the new prohibition on a practice that had been embedded in schools for decades.

School districts sent letters to parents saying they would no longer put children in locked rooms, while the head of the Illinois State Board of Education apologized to families and said the law that had been in effect “did not sufficiently regulate” isolated timeout, causing “lasting trauma.”