Last week, CTA employee Julian Mobley went to work and never came home. He was fatally stabbed while serving the people who rely on Chicago's transit system.

The man charged with his murder, Chevazz Campbell, reportedly has seven prior felony convictions, including a case in which he stabbed a 17-year-old girl, allegedly because she was taking up too much space on the sidewalk. Despite that history, Campbell was on electronic monitoring at the time of Mobley's murder.

Three years after Illinois implemented the elimination of cash bail, the consequences of the state’s pretrial system are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

Since the Pretrial Fairness Act took effect, defendants released into Illinois communities have been accused of committing violent crimes, while failures in electronic monitoring have raised serious questions about public safety and accountability.

A new law will require all new schools being build in Illinois to include a storm shelter that can withstand an EF4 tornado. The legislation was inspired by the devastation left by deadly tornadoes which ripped through Illinois in 2012 and 2013.

Read Public Act 098-0883.

Follow live blog coverage of the Governor's budget address from the Illinois House Republicans on March 6th at noon, right here on The Caucus Blog.