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The lessons of our construction workforce reckoning

By Frank Manzo IV
Aug 13, 2023 1:00 am - "Our most valuable asset is our employees" has become an overused cliché in the American business lexicon. As our nation has transitioned from pandemic-related hyperinf...
Inspired by attacks on bakery, state law allows doxing victims to sue online harassers for money

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 11, 2023 5:00 am - The UpRising Bakery and Cafe in Lake in the Hills made national news last year when its plan to hold an all-ages drag brunch sparked not just outcry and protests but thr...
Illinois Supreme Court upholds state's ban on semi-automatic weapons

By JOHN O'CONNOR AP Political Writer
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the state's ban on the sale or possession of the type of semi-automatic weapons used in hundreds of mass killings nat...
After court ruling, local leaders say they will enforce state gun ban 'as any other statute'

By Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Local law enforcement officials said after Friday's Illinois Supreme Court ruling that they will enforce the state's ban on the sale of high-powered weapons, "We'll enfo...
Harris to young activists: 'Your generation is critical' to ending gun violence

Chicago Sun-Times
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Vice President Kamala Harris told young activists and leaders gathered in Chicago on Friday they mean "everything" to the future of solving the violence epidemic - as th...
State mental health center renamed for Elizabeth Packard. Here's her story of exposing abuse.

By JERRY NOWICKI and MOLLY PARKER Capitol News Illinois
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - In June 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane in Jacksonville by her husband, a Calvinist minister, for, ...
Pritzker vetos bill that would lift nuclear moratorium

BY JENNY WHIDDEN jwhidden@dailyherald.com
Aug 11, 2023 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday vetoed a bill that would have enabled the construction of new nuclear reactors in Illinois for the first time in more than three decades. T...
Madigan was 'different from any other politician I've seen,' FBI agent testifies

Chicago Sun-Times
Aug 10, 2023 1:00 am - Brendan O'Leary spent more than two decades working for the FBI - most of it in Chicago, and most of it investigating public corruption. But when it came to Illinois' fa...
Opening statements expected Wednesday in Mapes trial

Chicago Sun-Times
Aug 08, 2023 1:00 am - Opening statements are expected to begin Wednesday morning in the perjury trial of a onetime top aide to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan after lawyers comp...
Pritzker signs bills mandating teaching of Native American history, repatriating remains

By Peter Hancock Capitol News Illinois phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com
Aug 07, 2023 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a package of bills extending cultural protections to Native Americans in Illinois and requiring the teaching of Native American history in ...

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