SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, July 21 (TNSLrpt) -- The Illinois Auditor General issued the following report involving Department of Innovation and Technology -- Compliance Examination. Here are excerpts: * * * INTRODUCTION This digest covers the Department of Innovation and Technology's (Department) State Compliance Examination for the two years ended June 30, 2024. A digest covering the Department's Financial Audit as of and for the year ended June 30, 2024, was previously released on April 29, 20 more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, July 21 (TNSLrpt) -- The Illinois Auditor General issued the following report involving Environmental Protection Agency - Trust Fund Commission -- Compliance Examination. Here are excerpts: * * * SYNOPSIS * (24-1) The Commission did not have adequate controls over the administration of its accounts receivable. FINDING, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATION INADEQUATE CONTROLS OVER ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE The Commission did not have adequate controls over the administration of i more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, July 21 (TNSLrpt) -- The Illinois Auditor General issued the following report involving Environmental Protection Agency -- Compliance Examination. Here are excerpts: * * * This digest covers the Environmental Protection Agency's (Agency) State Compliance Examination for the two years ended June 30, 2024. A separate digest covering the Agency's financial audit of the Water Revolving Fund as of and for the year ended June 30, 2024 was previously released on February 20, 2 more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, July 21 (TNSLrpt) -- The Illinois Auditor General issued the following report involving Office of the Treasurer, Fiscal Officer Responsibilities -- Financial Audit. Here are excerpts: * * * INTRODUCTION This digest covers the financial audit of the Office of the Treasurer, Fiscal Officer Responsibilities' (Treasurer) as of and for the year ended June 30, 2024. There were no findings disclosed during our audit. AUDITOR'S OPINION The auditors stated the financial stat more PR

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, July 21 (TNSLrpt) -- The Illinois Auditor General issued the following report involving Pollution Control Board -- Compliance Examination. Here are excerpts: * * * SYNOPSIS * (24-001) The Board failed to maintain adequate controls over personal services. FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS INADEQUATE CONTROLS OVER PERSONAL SERVICES The Board failed to maintain adequate controls over personal services. We noted the following: - For two of eight (25%) employee f more PR

EDWARDSVILLE, Illinois, July 22 -- Southern Illinois University's Edwardsville campus issued the following news: * * * SIUE Center for Crime Science and Violence Prevention Helps in the Fight Against Crime with Innovative Data Extraction Tool One element in the fight against crime is being able to promptly and accurately access and record the related data. The Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Center for Crime Science and Violence Prevention's (CCSVP) recent creation of an extraction  more PR

COLUMBIA, Missouri, July 22 (TNSjou) -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release: * * * Recreating Mazon Creek's 300-million-year-old ecosystem A new study from the University of Missouri sheds light on how exceptional fossil preservation at Mazon Creek captured the diversity of life across land, delta and sea. * More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago -- including what is now the Mazon Creek ("muh-ZAHN" more PR