These prohibitions forbid state officers or employees, or their spouse or immediate families living with them, from accepting compensation for one year from any person or company directly affected by certain decisions made by the state officer or employee
Press release stating that higher education leaders applauded the passage of Senate Bill 575 to strengthen high school graduation requirements, a linchpin of Governor Rod R. Blagojevichs Higher Standards/Better Schools plan. James L. Kaplan, Chairman of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, called the new standards an important advance in broadening access to college and improving retention and degree-completion.
It might be hard to imagine now, but your children will be heading off to college sooner than you think. The question is - will your savings be ready, too? To help you prepare for the high cost of education, the Illinois State Treasurer's Office, working with Citigroup Asset Management, has created the Bright Start College Savings Program. Bright Start is a tax-advantaged Section 529 Plan that helps parents, grandparents, relatives and friends nationwide save for a loved one's college education. So why wait, when you can get started today? After all, the day is coming sooner than you think.
In February 2005, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, in collaboration with the Illinois Integrated Justice Information System initiative, conducted a review of two private providers of conviction records. This review compared six subjects' criminal history information as compiled by two private providers with the subjects' official rap sheets and discovered that the quality of those records varied depending upon their source. In addition to recommending further research in this area, several recommendations are presented to increase the accuracy of privately compiled criminal history records and warn users of the disparity between the official and unofficial compilations.