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Gov. Pritzker says Speaker should quit if he wont answer questions about bribery investigation
Gov. Pritzker. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker says House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) faces a reckoning. The governor says the actions outlined in We...
Nov 19, 2020
Durkin: Time for Madigan to go
House Speaker Michael Madigan. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – If House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) is listening, Illinois Republicans have a message for him — ...
Nov 19, 2020
More than a dozen lawmakers don’t support Madigan as speaker
House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago). (Photo courtesy: WikiMedia/Illinoislawmakers) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – By an informal count, Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) would not have the sixty votes nee...
Nov 19, 2020
Sen. Durbin calls on President Trump to work with President-elect Biden on COVID vaccine distribution
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (Photo courtesy: Dick Durbin/Facebook)By Blake HaasBLOOMINGTON – Coronavirus cases are on the rise, and Illinois’s Senior U.S. Senator says President Trump needs to w...
Nov 18, 2020
McLean County Board race shows every vote counts
Democratic challenger Val Laymon is declaring victory after the final count shows she defeated incumbent Republican Jacob Beard by eight votes. (Photo courtesy: HOI/ABC)By Heart of Illinois ABCBLOOMIN...
Nov 18, 2020
Gov. Pritzker announces new COVID-19 mitigations
Gov. Pritzker announced new COVID-19 mitigations on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker says the best way to avoid a stay-at-home order is to act as if...
Nov 17, 2020
Gov. Pritzker says the rise in COVID-19 cases is threatening hospital capacity
Gov. JB Pritzker at the coronavirus press briefing. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Gov. JB Pritzker says the current coronavirus rise is threatening the capacity of hospi...
Nov 16, 2020
Former Gov. Edgar reflects on Illinois fiscal trouble Gov. Pritzker faces
Former Gov. Jim Edgar, announcing a new statesmanship award to be given by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, says statesmen solve problems, even when it makes peo...
Nov 16, 2020
Sen. Durbin: Republicans want “to do away” with Obamacare with no plan in place
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File) By Dave Dahl SPRINGFIELD – Those who had to buy their own health insurance before the Affordable Care Act became law are recalling the bad o...
Nov 13, 2020
Republican senator and a Democratic representative call for hearings on the state’s response to COVID-19
State Sen. Sue Rezin (R-Morris). (Photo courtesy www.ilga.gov) By Dave DahlSPRINGFIELD – A Republican senator and a Democratic representative Thursday shared a Zoom call to say not enough i...
Nov 12, 2020
