Illinois’ top Senate Democrat dropped his resistance Wednesday to abolishing the state’s scandal-tainted legislative scholarship program and advanced a measure that would kill the waivers this fall. The legislation carried by Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) that moved out of a Senate subcommittee also included a provision that would set up a task force to examine whether to continue $364 million in tuition waivers beyond those that legislators themselves hand out. Until recently, bowing to pressure particularly from within his own caucus, Cullerton had held out hope of reforming and preserving the legislative scholarship program that allows lawmakers to dole out free tuition to whomever they want.

About 100 people packed into a conference room at the 95th Street Library in Naperville Monday night to meet with Will County officials about the planned extension of 95th Street. The plan was for residents to watch a slide presentation of the project’s progress and ask questions of county officials afterward. But things quickly grew testy when several residents demanded someone speak to the crowd about concerns many had about the necessity of connecting Naperville-Plainfield Road with Boughton Road in Bolingbrook.

About two months after it opened, Frankfort Township’s newest senior apartment complex is 100 percent occupied. Some of the tenants of the Lighthouse Pointe complex have familiar names. Records show that some township employees or their families have benefited from the project as tenants or as real estate agents, starting with the acquisition of the property last year. None is accused of wrongdoing, and officials say other brokers were solicited and the final tenants were found only after waiting lists were gone through .