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Illinois Republicans do an about-face on mail-in voting: ‘We have to play to win under the existing rules’

CHICAGO — As another election approaches, the Illinois Republican Party and its allies are facing a conundrum — urging followers to cast ballots by mail while trying not to alienate followers of former President Donald Trump, who continues to insist that mail-in votes are “automatically corrupt.”

Chicago Tribune

3 projects with close ties to Gov. Pritzker’s allies land $141M in state funding

Rebuild Illinois has earmarked money for a river port in Cairo, extending a passenger rail line near Belleville, and helping developer Elzie Higginbottom erect an apartment building and hotel in Chicago’s Illinois Medical District.

Chicago Sun-Times

Predatory Loan Prevention Act hurts borrowers it set out to protect

If by “helping” Gov. J.B. Pritzker and others meant eliminating choices, they succeeded. Research shows that the PLPA made unsecured installment loans less available to subprime borrowers.

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6th, 21st Ward candidates discuss future of South Side ahead of runoff: Time to ‘resurrect dreams of residents’

Four community leaders vie for City Council seats left open by the departures of longtime alderpersons Sawyer and Brookins.

Chicago Sun-Times

Conservatives are targeting suburban Chicago school boards. And the elections are becoming political battlegrounds

Two years ago, at the urging of her teenage daughter, clinical psychologist Donna Marino ran for school board in far west suburban Oswego, Illinois, thinking her background in mental health could help students recover from the isolation, stress and trauma brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions taken…

Chicago Tribune

If a hospital still asks you to mask up, do it

Advocate Health is relaxing its pandemic rules on mask-wearing and patient visitation, but many hospitals are keeping their mask mandates.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chan Zuckerberg life sciences hub to open in Fulton Market

The center, backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan, will research inflammation’s role in human diseases. Its funding includes $25 million in a capital grant from the state.

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Clout-heavy lawyer James J. Banks makes a push in video gaming

The former Illinois Tollway board member is new to the industry. But his Belmont Bank has been lending money for years to Rick Heidner, a giant in the business.

Chicago Sun-Times

COVID anniversary reminds us of ‘quiet’ Chicago: PHOTOS

Three years ago, the hustle and bustle that is Chicago went silent.

Chicago Sun-Times

How a gun violence spike in 2016 created a movement of Chicagoans that is still building

Over the last six years, support for community-based violence prevention has swelled in Chicago. It started with a “really shocking and enormous” increase in shootings.

Chicago Sun-Times

Warnock's campaign chief sees lessons from Dems in Georgia

When Quentin Fulks went back home to Ellaville, Georgia, last year, people kept telling him how proud they were to watch a native son lead Sen. Raphael Warnock’s reelection bid

The Independent UK

Five days paid leave guaranteed for Illinois workers under law signed by Pritzker

Starting next year, workers will begin to earn paid leave on their first day at a rate of one hour of leave for every 40 hours worked, up to 40 hours of paid leave for the year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois enacts mandatory paid leave 'for any reason'

Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason

The Independent UK

Illinois has to get smarter as it builds its behavioral health infrastructure

The people in charge need to be better than this, so this new attempt to bring new workers into the system and keep them there cannot fail.

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ICC chief Carrie Zalewski pulling plug on job, says it’s not sparked by looming ComEd trial involving father-in-law

She says she doesn’t expect to be a witness in the trial of four people accused of trying to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan to benefit ComEd. Ex-Ald. Mike Zalewski, her father-in-law, has a role in the trial but isn’t charged.

Chicago Tribune

Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas' Facebook account liked posts that called Chicago ‘hell hole’ and attacked Democrats; he again denies involvement

CHICAGO — Paul Vallas’ Facebook account liked a series of comments that attacked Democrats, referred to Chicago as a “hell hole” and “S---cago” and labeled Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker “the king of full term abortion,” a Chicago Tribune review of his social media found.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bid to block Illinois’ new assault weapons ban now before federal appeals court

The case of Naperville gunshop owner Robert Bevis appears to be the first to challenge the ban in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A federal judge found it constitutional.

Chicago Sun-Times

Director of Illinois Department of Corrections resigns

Rob Jeffreys, who has led the department since June 2019, is stepping down.

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Illinois' state witness protection program finally gets millions in funding, but has yet to get off the ground

CHICAGO — For the second year in a row, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is proposing the state spend tens of millions of dollars on a witness protection program that went unfunded for the first nine years of its existence.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois Supreme Court takes up accelerated appeal of ruling that struck down state ban on high-powered guns

CHICAGO — The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to an accelerated hearing schedule for the state’s appeal of a downstate judge’s ruling that struck down a state ban on certain high-powered semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois judge strikes down state's ban on high-powered guns

CHICAGO — A downstate judge on Friday struck down the ban on high-powered firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines that Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law earlier this year, a ruling the Illinois attorney general’s office immediately appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Chicago Sun-Times

As a teacher, I’m waiting for our leaders to take a bold stand for honest education

It’s time that elected officials elsewhere in the country follow Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s lead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Walgreens’ abortion pill decision sparks Pritzker meeting and protestor demands ‘they follow the law’

Walgreens’ decision not to sell the pills in 20 other states prompted immediate condemnation from Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who met with CEO Roz Brewer about it on Friday. The pharmacy made the policy change after 20 Republican attorneys general threatened legal action.

Chicago Sun-Times

Founding fathers didn’t own AR-15s or large capacity magazines, Pritzker and Raoul argue in defense of ban

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed the brief to answer challenges to the assault weapon ban, arguing the nation’s founding fathers owned guns that could only shoot a single shot before reloading — proving assault weapons weren’t in “common use” at the time.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago mayor rivals Paul Vallas, Brandon Johnson pledge support for city’s 2024 Democratic convention bid

Hoping to allay concerns after the defeat of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson jointly agree to back the effort to land the 2024 Democratic convention.

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