This story is a collaboration between Illinois Answers Project and Capitol News Illinois. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, at a small, round table in a spacious apartment in Chicago’s Hyde Park ...

Housing costs have spiked in Michigan. Rental and mortgage rates are higher than they were just a few years ago. A key reason for this increase in costs is that there isn’t enough supply to meet ...

Prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket rake in millions from wagers on sports and current events but pay nothing in state betting taxes and ignore regulations that govern online ...

A Michigan House committee heard emotional testimony Thursday from law enforcement officials and grieving parents in support of legislation aimed at educating students about the dangers of ...

An Ohio campaign is making a final push for signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot that would repeal a law rolling back the state’s marijuana law and ban the sale of consumable hemp ...

A major tech group suggests Michigan would be sued if it tries to regulate minors’ access to social media. State lawmakers ...

Prediction markets are platforms that allow you to trade shares on specific outcomes, according to Meta Mask.

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A Michigan mother whose 12-year-old daughter died by suicide after being exposed to self-harm content online urged lawmakers ...

One year after a 5-year-old boy was killed in a hyperbaric chamber explosion at the Oxford Center in Troy, Michigan lawmakers are introducing legislation to regulate the industry. State Rep. Sharon ...

Prediction markets, which allow wagers on almost anything in politics, business or culture, takes betting to a new level. They're also raising alarms.

Michigan state Rep. Sharon MacDonell and state Sen. Stephanie Chang have introduced a package of bills to regulate free-standing health spas and wellness centers offering hyperbaric oxygen therapy.