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Friday, December 9, 2022
Guards at Pontiac state prison harassed gay co-worker, state investigation finds
And high-ranking prison officials were found not only to have failed to address the problems but to have perpetuated them.In the fall of 2018, a guard at the state’s Pontiac Correctional
Center told his supervisor an incarcerated man had masturbated at the
front of his cell while staring at him. | |
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Friday, December 9, 2022
Illinois hasn’t delivered jobs, job-training promised under clean energy law
Fifteen months after Gov. J.B. Pritzker
signed the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, the state hasn’t begun its
promised workforce development programs aimed at helping minority
contractors and workers.Lisa Benjamin has been running her own general contracting business
in Matteson since 2007 and is eager to expand and do more
energy-efficient, environm...
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Friday, December 9, 2022
Gov J.B. Pritzker signs plan to eliminate debt in unemployment fund
Gov.
J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed into law a measure that officials say
will eliminate a $1.8 billion debt in the pandemic-battered account that
pays out unemployment benefits.An
unexpected surge in revenue fuels the plan, with $1.36 billion paying
off a federal loan distributed to Illinois and numerous other states
when t...
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
Butler comfortable with decision to leave House for railway job as he departs on good terms with his colleagues
One of Springfield’s more popular lawmakers will be leaving
his House position to take a lobbying job at the end of the month, but Rep. Tim
Butler (R-Springfield) is at peace with his decision as he embarks on a new
chapter in his political career.
After winning reelec...
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
Illinois Playbook Calling in the big guns
Good Thursday morning, Illinois. Fifty years ago today in
1972, a United Airlines Boeing 737 crashed while trying to land at Midway,
killing 43 people aboard and two on the ground. Among the dead were Democratic
Congressman George W. Collins, CBS News correspondent Michele Clark, who was a
Chicago native, and Dorothy Hunt, the wife of Watergate conspirator E. Howard
Hunt. WBEZ...
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
Witness slips stack up as Illinois House committee set to debate more gun restrictions Monday
– Efforts in Illinois to ban semi-automatic weapons and
certain magazines, and restrict who can buy guns to 21 and older, could come
sooner than expected.
Wednesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he supports banning
certain weapons and magazines. He expects state Rep. Bob Morgan’s bill, which
also would ban magaz...
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Thursday, December 8, 2022
Illinois lawmakers have a moral obligation to pass gun safety bill
The Protect Illinois Communities Act Is a logical, necessary
step to reduce the harm from assault weapons and large capacity magazines. We
owe it to all whose lives have been irreversibly touched by gun violence. |