Articles filed under Political Figures
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Pandemic-related tweaks to Health Care Right of Conscience Act emergeOct 25, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - An amendment to the Health Care Right of Conscience Act that allows an employer to fire a worker for noncompliance with COVID-19 vaccine or test requiremen...
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Pritzker orders COVID-19 vaccines for day care workersOct 22, 2021 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued an executive order today mandating COVID-19 vaccines for all day care providers. The edict, he said, affects roughly 55,000 workers in the stat...
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Clinton, on the mend, 'touched by the outpouring of support'Oct 21, 2021 7:00 am - CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton released a video saying he is on the road to recovery after being hospitalized in Southern California for six days t...
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Pritzker touts job training program for electric vehicle industryOct 21, 2021 1:00 am - As part of his plan to boost the number of electric vehicles on the road, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday announced a training program for the manufacture and repair of t...
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Jan. 6 panel plans contempt vote as Trump sues over probeOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - A House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is moving swiftly Tuesday to hold at least one of Donald Trump's allies in conte...
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Pritzker aims for holidays to drop indoor mask mandateOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he'd like to rescind Illinois' indoor mask mandate in time for the holidays, but he stopped short of saying what metrics needed to be hit in orde...
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Images: Colin Powell dies at age 84Oct 18, 2021 1:00 pm - Colin Powell, the boundary-breaking military leader and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stained by his faulty c...
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Pritzker extends deadline again for state workers to get COVID-19 shots; fourth deal with unions struckOct 18, 2021 1:00 am - State workers in congregate settings, such as prisons and veterans' homes, now have until Oct. 26 to get their first COVID-19 vaccination after Gov. J.B. Pritzker extend...
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Suburbanites remember Colin Powell as a 'class act,' 'gentleman'Oct 18, 2021 1:00 am - Charles Gregory still remembers the feeling of “awe” from his first encounter with retired Gen. Colin Powell. Gregory got two chances to meet the late former U.S. secre...
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Colin Powell, exemplary general stained by Iraq claims, diesOct 18, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Colin Powell, the boundary-breaking military leader and diplomat whose sterling reputation of service to Republican and Democratic presidents was stain...