After a seven-year wait, the state of Illinois will finally begin issuing monarch butterfly specialty license plates, Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Thursday.

A deal on Gov. Pritzker’s big push to make Illinois a green-powered state has reportedly been close for weeks. But the bill stalled in the Illinois Senate earlier this week. 

Should a 1,900 mile pipeline be built to transport oil sand petroleum from Canada to the United States? Eddie Arruza and his panel take up the controversial proposal.