The streets of Cairo, Illinois, are lined with boarded-up buildings and empty lots. Now the federal agency is set to gut the city of some of its last affordable housing.
HUD’s flawed oversight of living conditions in federally subsidized housing can leave people living among rats, roaches, mold and other dangerous conditions for years. The lack of solutions for small- and mid-sized cities is the affordable housing crisis nobody’s talking about.
Dozens of parents turned out to an Illinois schoolboard meeting to defend a teacher who was previously suspended for denying a transgender student to change inside a boy s locker room.
(SPRINGFIELD) After months of being criticized by Republicans, a few Democrats, and law enforcement officials around the state on provisions in the cr.