Democrats in the Illinois Senate on Tuesday night voted to repeal the last remaining abortion restriction on the state’s books, while Democrats on a House panel approved a measure tightening a decades-old law in hopes of curbing a recent wave of lawsuits challenging employer vaccine mandates in Illinois.

After a lawsuit, the Biden administration promised earlier this year that it would make the documents more inclusive for people who identify as nonbinary, intersex and gender non-conforming.

Titan Fever is the show choir at Chatham's Glenwood High School. Choir Director Nick Brockamp and Titan Fever President and senior Ainslie Wilson. Brockamp and Wilson spoke to Community Voices about the choir, their rehearsal schedule and their music selection.

As Gov. JB Pritzker attempts to overhaul how the state reimburses nursing homes with Medicaid patients — a move they say will engender more accountability and equity — an unpublished report paints a complicated picture that neither fully bolsters Pritzker’s argument for an overhaul nor the resistance from the nursing home industry warning its cash-poor facilities will close en masse.

NCAA spending per Division I and national championship participants was $4,285 for men and $2,588 for women in the 2018-19 season. The gap is even larger for single-gender sports, the report shows.

"Black Averageness" is one of the singles off of Shad's latest album, "Tao."