The new law is known as the Unemployment Insurance Act; the three-year pilot program enabling workers who voluntarily leave ...

The Home Modification Program was recently announced by State Rep. Maurice West (D-Rockford). This program offers grant funding to help people with disabilities make changes to their homes so they can ...

On a recent Sunday, I stood in the kitchen with my brother Daniel, watching as he cracked the fifth and final egg into a bowl ...

A law that takes effect in the new year aims to improves protections for missing people with developmental disabilities. Senate Bill 1548 creates the Golden Search Awareness Program. State Senator ...

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CHICAGO -- Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed a long-awaited bill to stop Illinois organizations from paying less than the minimum wage to workers with disabilities. The bill applies to businesses and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --A proposed change in Illinois law would eliminate the subminimum wage for workers with disabilities, but some fear it could leave the state's most vulnerable out of work altogether. In ...

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New research suggests that culturally relevant and bilingual training advocacy programs like FIRME empower parents to ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Friday denied Illinois' request to end court oversight of its disability services. Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...