The Illinois House of Representatives, shown during floor debate early in the final scheduled week of the 2024 spring legislative session. (Andrew Adams / Capitol News Illinois)

The nursing home industry is still reeling from COVID-19, which exacerbated pre-existing challenges in long-term care — difficulties hiring and retaining staff and a population more reliant on government-funded care chief among them.

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Illinois state legislators are considering a proposal that would help facilitate carpet recycling, but the effort has what one might call wall-to-wall complications.

Lawmakers who signed an open letter describing a culture of sexual harassment and misconduct in Springfield discuss the problem.