Articles filed under Illinois
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Longest-serving jurist Garman retires from state high courtMay 09, 2022 7:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman, who had planned to seek a third 10-year term in November, abruptly tendered her resignation Monday. ...
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'Call Jane': How Chicago and suburban women defied authority to provide abortions in the 1970sMay 09, 2022 5:30 am - Fifty years ago, Abby Pariser and Sheila Smith were caring for women undergoing illegal abortions at a secret Chicago location when homicide detectives came calling. “Fi...
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DCFS director: 'Stuck kids' docket a problem years in the makingMay 09, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith has faced nine cases of contempt of court in recent weeks for failing to comply with a judge...
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Garman to retire from state Supreme CourtMay 09, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Republican Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman announced Monday that she will retire on July 7, marking the end of a long legal career that has incl...
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Cruising the Great Lakes on an 11-day voyageMay 08, 2022 7:32 am - The COVID-19 pandemic pulled the plug on cruises of the Great Lakes after I experienced mine in 2019. Now these voyages of our inland seas are back ping-ponging between ...
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Illinois pension funds are slow to pull out of Russian assetsMay 07, 2022 1:00 am - Despite strong rhetoric from Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other top state officials demanding public pension funds divest more than $100 million in Russia-based assets, state ...
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It's Chief Justice Roberts' Court, but does he still lead?May 06, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - John Roberts is heading a Supreme Court in crisis. The chief justice has already ordered an investigation of the leak this week of a draft opinion su...
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Audit: Urgent response lacking in outbreak at veterans homeMay 06, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Sluggishness, poor compliance with existing rules and little help from state public health officials crippled the response by Gov. J.B. Pritzker's administ...
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All suburban counties now at medium COVID-19 risk level, with DuPage approaching highMay 06, 2022 1:00 am - The Chicago Department of Public Health is urging masking indoors in public and on transit to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as cases spike, officials said Friday. Fourt...
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What's next in the investigation of the Supreme Court leak?May 05, 2022 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice John Roberts, in ordering an investigation into an 'œegregious breach of trust'ť in the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion...