Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — A long-awaited bill to reform the Prisoner Review Board will soon go to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk after receiving approval…
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Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — A bill to ban the sale of firefighter protective gear containing “forever chemicals” is gaining momentum in the Illinois General…
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Capitol News Illinois WARNING: This story includes content related to suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline…
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Capitol News Illinois Two of the country’s largest collections of Native American human remains are held by museums in Illinois. To the director of one…
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Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — On May 19, 1875, a Cook County jury handed down a verdict in a case concerning the health and welfare…
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Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — A growing number of state lawmakers are moving to repeal a 2015 Illinois law penalizing companies that boycott Israel to…
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Capitol News Illinois Capitol News Illinois, a nonprofit news service, announced today that Beth Hundsdorfer has won a Driehaus Foundation Award for Investigative Reporting for…
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Capitol News Illinois With just over two weeks to go before their spring adjournment, lawmakers in Springfield are facing a tight deadline to pass major…
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Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — A Senate committee on Wednesday advanced a measure aiming to limit the circumstances under which tenants can be evicted due…
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Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD – House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch made the extraordinary move of removing an appropriations committee chair on Wednesday with two weeks…
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