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* Report: Abraham Lincoln hotel spending money in violation of loan terms

* Lawmakers may license midwives, give parents options

That means most parents who want to deliver at home must do so without assistance or seek out midwives — who may have varying levels of training and risk being accused of practicing medicine without a license.

* Audit: State was underpaid for flights

* Foreclosures on the rise

* Transit chief puts focus on funds

* Phil Kadner: Will Illinois allow illegals the chance to drive?

* Judge drops federal lawsuit over 2004 state Supreme Court race

* To pay or not to pay for interchange

The trend of forcing towns to chip in for new ramps on Illinois’ toll roads faces its biggest test yet with the renewed effort to build an interchange linking Interstates 57 and 294.

* U.S. Justice Dept. launches civil rights investigation of Cook Co. Jail

* Some laid off janitors to be rehired by county

* Did Stroger really chop ‘from the top’?

* Half the Cook Co. health cuts were doctors and nurses

posted by Paul Richardson
Tuesday, Apr 17, 07 @ 8:28 am

Comments

Good. It’s about time IL licensed midwives. Many women in my area choose to give birth with a midwife. Some are immigrants so the experience of going to a hospital to give birth is strange to them, some are advocates of alternate living who also don’t want the hospital experience. Also, the cost of a hospital delivery is quite high compared to a midwife, so that may have an impact on people’s choices. I see no reason for the docs to protest this as any licensed midwife would have the experience to direct obviously problematic pregnancies to a doctor and if something goes wrong during what looked like a routine delivery, there’s always 911. The birthing centers sound interesting, but I don’t know if they’ll prove popular. Some people choose not to give birth in a hospital because they fear the authorities, so state birthing centers would have the same issue.

Comment by cermak_rd Tuesday, Apr 17, 07 @ 10:40 am
Stroger chopping from the top? Ha! When half you’re health care cuts are doctors and nurses, and most of the rest are support specialists like radiologists, you’re chopping front line! But all the politically-connected bureaucrats can celebrate. Life is good under Todd. He’s got his priorities straight.

Comment by NE Tuesday, Apr 17, 07 @ 11:42 am
“Foreclosures on the rise”. This is news??? Anyone who’s looked in the legal notices of any state and local newspaper has been noting this for a year. All of a sudden it’s news?? And it will only get worse give the administrations in both this state and Washington.

Comment by Disgusted Tuesday, Apr 17, 07 @ 6:50 pm
RTA’s passing the hat again? Why are we crying to Springfield. If transit funding is so important to the region let’s solve the problem locally, not ask Springfield to tax us and hope they send most of our money back to us. Then we would have 100% control of how it was spent and it wouldn’t have to depend on the yearly drama of the Springfield budget sausage machine.

Comment by NoGiftsPlease Tuesday, Apr 17, 07 @ 8:23 pm