News Around Illinois – February 19, 2020
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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is set to deliver his annual budget address Wednesday. Rep. Greg Harris is the No. 2 Democrat in the Illinois House.
CHICAGO — Highlights from imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s political career and legal saga: — 1993: Blagojevich begins a three-year stint as an Illinois
The move would free Blagojevich, once seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party, from federal prison four years before he would have been eligible for parole and clear his convictions.
For many farmers, 2019 was the first year of growing hemp, since it became legal under the 2018 Farm Bill. In addition to the normal challenges of…
Craig Morton owns a Medicine Shoppe pharmacy franchise in the south-central Illinois town of Salem, where he says he sees the impact of high prescription
SPRINGFIELD – State lawmakers and public health advocates want to make it more convenient for Illinoisans to get rid of their unwanted medicine. If you
President Donald Trump is essentially unopposed in next month’s Republican primary, but Illinois voters still have some important decisions to make.
CHAMPAIGN – Three law enforcement officials will be honored for their work investigating the killer of a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois.
Erika Weaver is one of four candidates running for the Democratic nomination for Congress in Illinois’ 15th District (four Republicans are also running).
Kevin Gaither received 29.1% of the vote, when he challenged incumbent U.S. Rep. John Shimkus in 2018. This year, with Shimkus out of the picture,
John W. Hursey Jr. is a high school English teacher from Collinsville, who says he’s a Democrat the traditionally Republican 15th District will support, because
CHICAGO – A Chicago woman and her husband, who became the United States’ first person-to-person transmission of the new virus from China, have been released
