On May 31, 2013, the Illinois legislature passed a carefully negotiated bill to permit and regulate horizontal hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking. Gov. Pat Quinn signed it into law on June 17.
A year later, fracking hasn't started here because the state's Department of Natural Resources hasn't completed the rules to regulate it under the law.
No drilling, which means no jobs. Don't expect either to come soon. Read the Chicago Tribune editorial.