The update to the state’s Vital Records Act that took effect on July 1 at the conclusion of Pride Month was enacted under HB0009, which allows people to change the gender on their birth certificate by signing a statement affirming their gender identity or intersex condition.

Matt Hart, executive director of the Illinois Trucking Association, said trucking companies have been settling numerous frivolous lawsuits after they put safety technology in trucks. “The trucking industry invests $9.5 billion each year to keep truck drivers safe and the motoring public safe. In Illinois, BIPA deters trucking companies from investing in new safety technology that could make our roads even safer.”

“We’ve banned assault weapons. We’ve banned high capacity magazines. We’ve banned switches that turn regular guns into automatic weapons and here in Illinois those are things that will keep people safe and alive, but we need a national ban,” Gov. JB Pritzker said.

The drugstore giant’s announcement comes six weeks after it rolled out plans to cut 504 corporate jobs in Chicago and Deerfield, or about 10% of its corporate workforce.

The tax burden per household in Illinois, according to the MoneyGeek.com study, is $14,778 in annual taxes, or 16.9% of household income, the highest in the nation.

“Consider the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago as an example of the effect of these school attendance zones. Here, two public elementary schools a mere mile apart and in the same school district have drastically different education performance levels. According to the Illinois Report Card put out by the Illinois State Board of Education, 27.6% of students are not proficient in language arts at Lincoln Elementary School, while 96.9% of students at Manierre Elementary School are not. Due to geographic boundary lines, families are restricted from sending their children to a local elementary school with far better student learning outcomes.

The verdict against the railroad operator, which had been issued Oct. 12, 2022, marked the first of its kind in any of the thousands of class action lawsuits filed in Illinois courts under the law known as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

The union-backed legislation would grant Illinois’ second-largest electric utility a temporary monopoly over the construction of new transmission lines across nearly three-quarters of the state. Gov. JB Pritzker promised to veto it.

In 2020, in Chicago’s predominantly Hispanic precincts, Trump improved his raw vote by 45 percent over 2016. Beneath this discontent is an emerging gulf between the cultural outlook of many Hispanics and the increasingly left-wing values of the Democratic Party.

There are twice as many children ages 0-6 with all parents in the workforce as there are licensed child care slots, a 2022 report by the Illinois Child Care for All Coalition found. “The lowest income families will never be able to compete in a market like that,” said Danette Connors, of the YWCA in Chicago.

Jim Dey: “There’s a disconnect between the rage expressed by protesters and what actually took place that can not be bridged. The unwillingness of the former to acknowledge the facts of the latter shows a dangerous unwillingness to understand, let alone embrace, even the slightest modicum of personal responsibility.”

In addition to advocates with organizations such as Mujeres Latinas en Acción, the protest also drew faith and political leaders, including state Reps. Lilian Jimenez and Norma Hernandez and state Sen. Karina Villa. “I’m the daughter of an undocumented mother,” Jimenez said. “I saw the impact that the program had on those who had never had health insurance.”