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Cases rise, help here

By Tim Kirsininkas COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continued to rise Tuesday as State officials announced that additional resources were being deployed in the State’s vaccination efforts. Public health officials announced 2,931 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 out of 51,625 test results Tuesday to bring the statewide seven-day rolling...

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State House passes bill: Vote-by-mail, curbside voting

By Sarah Mansur The Illinois House passed a bill Thursday, March 18 that would make permanent some vote-by-mail and curbside voting expansions that the state adopted ahead of the 2020 presidential election due to the COVID-19 pandemic. House Bill 1871, sponsored by Democratic Party representative Katie Stuart, of Edwardsville, passed...

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State leaders speak positively in support of Asian Americans

By Sarah Mansur Less than a week after a deadly attack on Asian Americans in Atlanta, governor JB Pritzker and members of the General Assembly’s Asian American Caucus spoke out against the murders and against discrimination generally toward the Asian American community. “I do not pretend to know the pain...

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Funds for education, health care, fiscal goals: Pritzker

By Jerry Nowicki Governor JB Pritzker said he will consider ideas for directing hundreds of millions of new dollars toward K-12 education in the upcoming fiscal year, but proponents of such spending must offer ways to cut government spending, or raise necessary revenues elsewhere. He made those comments in an...

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State ‘getting close’ to next phase of reopening: IDPH

By Tim Kirsininkas Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) director, Dr. Ngozi Ezike, said on Monday the State is “getting close” to the next phase of reopening amid increasing COVID-19 vaccination rates and decreasing positivity rates. Speaking in a Senate Health Committee meeting, Ezike said the State has been working...

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U of I System authorized for saliva-based test

By Grace Barbic The University of Illinois System received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Monday for its saliva-based COVID-19 test. The statewide, seven-day, rolling positivity rate reached 2.4%. The FDA approval allows for the covidSHIELD test to expand beyond the U of I System....

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State bill would strengthen veterans homes’ policies

By Sarah Mansur Two Republican lawmakers Monday unveiled legislation to strengthen internal policies at State-run veterans homes in the case of a disease outbreak, such as the COVID-19 outbreak at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home that resulted in 36 resident deaths since the pandemic began last year. The bill, sponsored by...

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State snow disaster

By Sarah Mansur Dangerous sub-zero temperatures and massive snow accumulation across Illinois prompted governor JB Pritzker to issue a disaster proclamation for the entire State Tuesday. “I have directed my administration to use all resources at our disposal to keep our communities safe amid dangerous and ongoing winter weather,” Pritzker...

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Indoor dining official!

By Jerry Nowicki Two more regions of the State moved to Phase 4 COVID-19 guidelines, meaning five of 11 regions can now allow both indoor dining and organized sports. Region 1 in northwest Illinois and Region 2 in north-central Illinois each moved to Phase 4, which allows for indoor dining...

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Illinois General Assembly pushes legislation on personal injury

By Sarah Mansur Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing “Lame Duck Look Back” series in which Capitol News Illinois is following up on the major bills that passed both chambers of the General Assembly in the January 8-13 lame duck session. The Illinois General Assembly last week...

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Welch unseats Madigan, capping historic week for Black Caucus

By Jerry Nowicki One of the most transformative six-day periods in the history of Illinois government came to an end Wednesday with the election of representative Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, as the State’s House speaker, the first Black man to hold the title. Equally groundbreaking was the fact that Welch...

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Michael Madigan suspends speaker campaign

By Jerry Nowicki One day after State House speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, announced a suspension, but not a withdrawal, of his campaign for another term as speaker, a State representative who has been accused of being a staunch Madigan protector has launched a bid for the post. Rep. Emanuel “Chris”...

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Keep mail-in ballots: State Election Committee bill seeks

By Sarah Mansur The Illinois House Executive Committee advanced an election bill that would make permanent some of the expansions to mail-in voting that were passed for the 2020 general election. The bill would require election authorities to accept mail-in ballots that were submitted without sufficient postage and allow election...

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Statewide seven-day rolling COVID-19 rate takes a dip

By Grace Barbic The Statewide seven-day rolling COVID-19 case positivity rate remained below eight percent for a third consecutive day Tuesday after decreasing for a fourth straight day. Tuesday’s seven-day rolling positivity rate was 7.5%, a decrease of one-tenth of a percentage point from Monday. Illinois reported 6,642 new confirmed...

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Redistrict lines by legislation?

By Peter Hancock Republican Party members in the Illinois House said Tuesday that they hope to use legislation, instead of a constitutional amendment, to change the way State legislative and congressional district lines are redrawn every 10 years. The so-called “fair maps” proposal would authorize the General Assembly to set...

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COVID-19 cases steady in State

By Raymon Troncoso Illinois reported its third consecutive day with more than 100 COVID-19 deaths Tuesday. Meanwhile, most statistics the State uses to measure progress in combatting the coronavirus ticked up slightly. Tuesday, the Illinois Department of Public Health reported 5,644 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in Illinois,...

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Three new laws to start in the New Year

By Sarah Mansur When a new year begins in Illinois, there typically are dozens if not hundreds of new laws going into effect. Not this year. Just like so many other things in this year, the legislative Spring session was stunted by COVID-19. Once the global pandemic reached Illinois in...

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Relief reached by Congress, finally!

By Sarah Mansur The U.S. Congress reached an agreement Monday evening on a roughly $900 Billion COVID-19 relief package that both extends unemployment benefits, provides stimulus checks to Americans within a certain income bracket and funds to small businesses, but it fell short of providing direct funding to State and...

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Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs (IDVA) officials say COVID-19 outbreak slowing at LaSalle Veterans’ Home

By Sarah Mansur Infection control efforts at the LaSalle Veterans’ Home have curbed the spread of the COVID-19 since a deadly outbreak began at the facility last month, according to officials who testified Wednesday before a House committee investigating the matter. That outbreak has caused at least 33 resident deaths,...

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Illinois electors cast 20 ballots for president

By Peter Hancock Illinois’ presidential electors officially cast their 20 ballots Monday for the Democratic Party ticket of Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris, marking the all-but-final step in a bitterly-contested presidential election that incumbent president Donald Trump has refused to concede. “Today, all over the country, electors just like...

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