Courts across Illinois are facing a shortage of court reporters, with the average age of people in the profession rising and fewer young people taking it on as a career.Tammy Bumgarner, court reporting services director for the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, estimates that about 25 percent of the roughly 2,000 licensed court reporters in the state work in courtrooms.Currently, there are 42 court reporter vacancies across Illinois with an immediate need to fill 20 of those positions, Bumgarner told The …