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Oportun Inc., a small-dollar loan company, disclosed to investors that it is the subject of a probe by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following reporting by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune

The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers - Everything looks the same on either side of the Texas-New Mexico border in the great oil patch of the Permian Basin. There are the pump jacks scattered across the plains, nodding up and down with metronomic regularity.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Needs to Order his Appointed IDPH Director to Immediately Implement the Illinois Nursing Home Care Act - Sec: 8 against those Nursing Homes that aren’t in compliance.

Bill Would Make General Assembly Conservators of the Peace; Grant Arrest Powers (Illinois) - A Bill introduced by Illinois State Representative Curtis J. Tarver, II, would make all State Representatives and State Senators Conservators of the Peace:

According to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, there are major disparities in who is shown public health information about the pandemic

“I am absolutely, firmly and totally committed to this NorthPoint job creation opportunity. There is no way under Heaven’s earth that I will passively sit by and watch 10,000 sorely needed jobs in my district evaporate into thin air. We will fight until the finish about this!”-US Congressman Rush

The Southland Journal Sues the Village of Robbins for FOIA Violations (Cook County, IL) - The Southland Journal filed a lawsuit against the Village of Robbins in Cook County Circuit Court on February 26, 2021. The lawsuit states that the Village of Robbins willfully failed to provide the requested records from the November 25, 2020 FOIA Request. A copy of the complaint can be read by clicking the download link below:

Racist hate campaign flyers in Bolingbrook

Trustee Desiree Watkins is running for Village President in Olympia Fields, Illinois in the April 2021 municipal election

Nelson Cruz, who has maintained his innocence for two decades, wanted a hearing to determine if the judge handling his case had been impaired. His request was rejected.