1+ hour, 27+ min ago   (140+ words) AdVantageNews.com A local lawmaker helped push through a new law that targets wire thieves. The Recyclable Metal Purchase Registration Law, sponsored by Democrat State Representative Jay Hoffman of Swansea, makes it a violation to sell or purchase telecommunications…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (116+ words) AdVantageNews.com Godfrey Attorney Bryan Dooling The Village of Godfrey passed a six-month extension on its moratorium on acceptance of data center applications at this week’s meeting. Although there have not been any developers approaching the village about placing one…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (413+ words) Server racks in a data center. The executive vice president of a coalition advocating for data center development says reversing course on incentives in Illinois could have “detrimental” economic consequences. Last week, Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the Aspen Climate…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (187+ words) Pritzker signs school cell phone ban AdVantageNews.com As Illinois students return to school this fall, school boards and families will begin discussing and implementing a bell-to-bell cell phone ban, stemming from a new law that provides few exceptions for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (108+ words) AdVantageNews.com If you are a customer of Verizon, you may have experienced an outage on your cell phone or internet service last evening and overnight but it appears service is coming back on line. Verizon confirms a service disruption…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (96+ words) Verizon outage reported AdVantageNews.com If you are customer of Verizon, you may be experiencing an outage on your cell phone or internet service. Verizon confirms a service disruption parts of the St. Louis and Riverbend areas since Tuesday evening…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (438+ words) After legislation to heavily restrict the development of new data centers across Illinois failed to progress in the legislature, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signaled Monday he is more than open to projects – but only if corporations pay for the impacts the developments…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (558+ words) A pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution rests on an American flag. Illinois may now face one less potential hurdle enacting a law requiring social media and other online platforms to verify the age of users and restrict content harmful to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (92+ words) State Representative Amy Elik (R-Alton) Gov. J.B. Pritzker is asking state lawmakers to work on data center policy. The governor outlined his regulatory proposals on Friday in a statement that included his decision to pause tax incentives for data centers. Republican…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (563+ words) Major bills in both the state Senate and House may heavily regulate data centers in the state. With the proposal spanning hundreds of pages, both those in favor and against the bill have a lot of arguments. With a little…...