Springfield News

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    Rep. Barbara Hernandez (D-Aurora) speaks on a bill in the House in 2022. [Blue Room Stream] 

    Illinois lawmakers took bipartisan action Friday to help DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) recipients become police officers.  

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    Rep. Marcus Evans (D-Chicago) speaks on the House floor Friday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line] 

    A proposal that could establish a wind farm in Lake Michigan passed through the House despite opposition from a representative who represents the lakefront on Chicago’s South Side.  

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    Rep. Marcus Evans (D-Chicago), yellow ties, and members of the speaker’s office staff confer over a question of parliamentary rules Friday night. [Blue Room Stream] 

    The House concluded its deadline week to pass bills on to the Senate abruptly Friday night after a procedural error over debate rules angered Republicans and a growing number of Democrats left session for the night.  

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    Illinois Capitol.   

    The House passed multiple bills dealing with education, disability benefits for first responders and cooling in apartment buildings on Thursday as the House faces a Friday deadline to move bills out of the chamber.  

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    A controversial bill that brought the gas stoves debate to Illinois fell short in the House. The Senate passed a bill that would ban smoking e-cigarettes in indoor places in the same way as other tobacco products. The Senate also passed a bill to start the process for designing a new flag. 

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    The bill prohibits libraries from banning books. (Hannah Meisel)

    As book bans around the country by local schools or libraries make headlines, the Illinois House passed a bill aimed at limiting libraries’ ability to ban books. 

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    The proposed airport in Peotone would be focused on cargo. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]

    The House passed a bill Tuesday requiring the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to seek interest from potential developers for a third Chicago-area airport to be built in Peotone in a years-long process that has been slow to move forward.  

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    Rep. Margaret Croke (D-Chicago) speaks on the House floor Tuesday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line] 

    The House gave approval to a bill that would require parents to split the cost of pregnancies, which can be sought through a court order similar to childcare 

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    Participants in the Illinois March for Life rally outside the Illinois State Capitol Tuesday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line] 

    Less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, anti-abortion activists from the national March for Life movement are taking their pitch to eradicate abortion in Illinois directly to state lawmakers. 

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    Rep. Jen Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview) speaks on the House floor Thursday. [Blue Room Stream]  

    The House voted Thursday to approve a bill that will treat rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft the same under state law as other forms of transportation such as taxis and even public transportation providers.  

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