A recap of the week's news from Capitol News Illinois

Gov. JB Pritzker isn’t considering using federal American Rescue Plan Act funding to pay down a multi-billion-dollar Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund deficit, and he’s watching the state’s COVID-19 hospitalization numbers closely.

Southern Illinois' COVID case count is climbing fast, and with low vaccination rates some are worried a surge is on the horizon.

Sunday the Arbor District in Carbondale will hold a meeting to discuss the city’s proposed TIF District expansion.Those neighborhoods include part of the Northeast, Northwest side and the Arbor District.

A 15 yr old boy and a set of twin boys were last known to be with a woman known as Cassandra Carter and traveling in a 2012 white Ford Explorer, plate # BB72781.

Last week a Federal Judge in Texas declared the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful, something that US Senator Dick Durbin disagrees with.

The Cape Girardeau Municipal Band Summer Concert Series continues. To learn more browse to: https://www.semoevents.com/events/18666

These grants are only available to municipalities considered Non Entitlement Units with less than 50,000 population.

With the country seeing an increase in the highly contagious DELTA variant of the COVID 19 virus, health officials are urging people to not let their guard down.

Journey back Inside The Blanket Fort as we continue our discussion with SIU Graduate students James Nash and Kyle Stolcenberg, the producers of the new Blanket Fort Radio Theater podcast "The Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang."