The Illinois Senate passed a bill Wednesday which would create a new housing program for individuals living with mental illness or substance use disorders.
The Illinois Senate passed a bill Wednesday which would create a new housing program for individuals living with mental illness or substance use disorders. Chief Senate sponsor Cristina Castro, an Elgin Democrat, said the measure will "help break the cycle of institutionalization for those struggling with mental health issues and addiction."
Reforms include required implicit bias training for medical professionals. Before Vallena Adkinson’s 35-year-old daughter Helen Heath died in March from
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| By Daniel O Boyle Competing casino developments on either side of the Illinois and Wisconsin border highlight the success of tribal gaming in the US - but also the limitations of existing regulation, writes Paul Girvan.
In southern Wisconsin lies the City of Beloit, further south about 20 miles -a 10-to-15-minute drive via the interstate – across the state line in Illinois is the City of Rockford. Both are in a race to develop a significant casino and both are looking to a Native American tribe to develop the casino, but each has followed a vastly different path to reach that goal.