Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed an executive order that formally restricts the unauthorized collection of autism-related data by state agencies. Pritzker’s order responds to federal efforts under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to create databases of personal information for those with autism “without clear legal safeguards or accountability,” according to a news release from Pritzker’s office.

Board members say Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked school board president, Sean Harden, is leading an effort to vote down a resolution requiring the next interim leader of Chicago Public Schools to have a superintendent license, in order to install the mayor’s chief of staff, Cristina Pacione-Zayas, to serve in the temporary role.

The policy to use city cash to help finance housing construction could set an example for other locales seeking to build affordable homes amid waning federal support.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in Springfield to decry Illinois’ policies that limit state and local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

DePaul University President apologizes to congressional committee for antisemitism on campus during last year’s protests and says what happened was a “hate crime.”

The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, brushing off President Donald Trump’s demands to lower borrowing costs, and said that the risks of both higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen, an unusual combination that puts the central bank in a difficult spot.

US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi becomes the third major Democratic candidate in Illinois seeking to succeed retiring US Sen. Dick Durbin.

Orland Park and Orland Township residents who live near a planned vehicle repossession lot opposed it at a Cook County ZBA meeting.

Park District figuring how much state funding it needs to remediate Tinley Park mental health and Howe Developmental Center property.