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Pritzker OKs legislative maps despite criticism from Republicans, minority voter groups

By JOHN O'CONNOR and SARA BURNETT
Sep 24, 2021 5:26 PM - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed off on new electoral maps the legislature will use for the next decade, despite concerns from certain groups, including some Black and Latino voters, that they weren't able to weigh in and wouldn't be fairly represented.
Biden coming back to Illinois, plans to encourage COVID-19 shots

By Marni Pyke
Sep 23, 2021 4:56 PM - President Joe Biden is heading back to Illinois next week, stopping in Chicago to talk about the importance of vaccine requirements for workers. He'll also likely push a massive infrastructure bill, one congressman predicts.
Illinois to invest more than $40 million in workforce training

By PETER HANCOCK
Sep 23, 2021 4:13 PM - Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday that the state will award more than $40 million in workforce training grants, focusing on communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and youth who are particularly at risk of violence.
U.S. special envoy to Haiti resigns over migrant expulsions

By JOSHUA GOODMAN, MATTHEW LEE, DANICA COTO and ELLIOT SPAGAT
Sep 23, 2021 12:01 PM - The Biden administration's special envoy to Haiti has resigned, protesting "inhumane" large-scale expulsions of Haitian migrants to their homeland wracked by civil strife and natural disaster, U.S. officials said Thursday.
EPA rule sharply limits HFCs, gases used as refrigerants

By MATTHEW DALY
Sep 23, 2021 10:37 AM - In what officials call a key step to combat climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is sharply limiting domestic production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.
Tensions grow as U.S., allies deepen Indo-Pacific involvement

By DAVID RISING
Sep 23, 2021 8:44 AM - With increasingly strong talk in support of Taiwan, a new deal to supply Australia with nuclear submarines, and the launch of a European strategy for greater engagement in the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. and its allies are becoming more assertive in their approach toward a rising China.
Hearing delayed in school workers' court fight about COVID-19 vaccination mandate

By Susan Sarkauskas
Sep 23, 2021 1:00 AM - A hearing on a request to prohibit St. Charles and Geneva schools from enforcing a vaccination mandate on workers has been delayed.
Biden doubles U.S. global donation of COVID-19 vaccine shots

By ZEKE MILLER
Sep 22, 2021 10:51 AM - President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the United States is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world to 1 billion doses as he embraces the goal of vaccinating 70% of the global population within the next year.
Cook measures lowest COVID-19 transmission rate in state, but it's not out of the woods

By Marni Pyke
Sep 22, 2021 1:15 PM - Cook County has the lowest COVID-19 transmissions, but it's still high, data shows. Want to take a COVID-19 booster? Don't "mix and match" vaccines, expert warns.
'That's like the Oscars': Palatine junior high among new Blue Ribbon winners

By Russell Lissau
Sep 22, 2021 6:27 AM - U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker visited Palatine's Walter R. Sundling Junior High School on Tuesday to personally congratulate students and staffers on being named a National Blue Ribbon School.

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