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  • FEB 04, 2019
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    Progressive group gives lawmakers ‘D’ grade for racial equality

    The Chicago-based Center for Racial and Gender Equality gave lawmakers overall a “D” grade as part of its Racial Justice Scorecard for the 100th General Assembly, but highlighted several new laws that the group said advanced the push for equality.
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  • FEB 04, 2019
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    Executive order to spend appropriated money on HIV programs that Rauner administration left unspent

    Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration direct the state’s Department of Public Health and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to spend all of the money — $1.2 million — earmarked for for HIV prevention.
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  • FEB 01, 2019
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    Pritzker appointments still half white, half women as list grows

    Gov. JB Pritzker speaks to reporters in his ceremonial Springfield office on Jan. 14 — his first full day as governor. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
    Gov. JB Pritzker announced another round of appointments to his administration Thursday, bringing the group of publicized early picks to 33.
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  • FEB 01, 2019
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    Madigan’s political offices ‘inspected’ this week, but photos taken likely won’t be public: court documents

    House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) speaks with reporters on May 30, 2014. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
    Attorneys for House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) asked a federal judge on Thursday to keep the photographs taken during an inspection of Madigan’s political offices earlier this week sealed from public view.
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  • JAN 31, 2019
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    Sexual harassment task force details suggested law changes in report

    The Sexual Harassment Task Force launched in the wake of sexual harassment allegations in the Capitol at the beginning of the #MeToo movement issued its final report Wednesday after more than a year’s worth of work.
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  • JAN 31, 2019
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    Minimum wage bill starts to take shape as Dems want early win for Pritzker

    While the call for a $15 minimum wage has been echoing in Springfield — and across the country — for several years, Democrats are confident that a bill to raise the wage in Illinois finally has the right political conditions to become reality.
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  • JAN 30, 2019
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    Capitol notebook — Pritzker wants lawmakers to abstain from votes in wake of Madigan tape revelations; House rules approved; Senate committees to look at minimum wage bill and liquor delivery

    House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) speaks with reporters on May 30, 2014. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]
    With the General Assembly back in session, there was action across the Capitol on a host of issues — as the revelation that House Speaker Mike Madigan was caught on tape by the FBI was the topic of the day.

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  • JAN 29, 2019
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    Morning briefing — Pritzker: ‘Strong sentence would have been better’ for officer Van Dyke; Pay step increases will begin April 1; Department of Agriculture says top need is broadband

    Gov. JB Pritzker talks to reporters in Springfield last week. [BlueRoomStream]
    Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday said he supports Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s effort to review the 81-month sentence handed down earlier this month to former Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke for the second-degree murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. The Pritzker administration also said Monday that AFSCME members who had been denied step increases since 2015 will begin seeing their pay rise starting April 1. Meanwhile, the new head of the Department of Agriculture shares Pritzker’s desire for an expansion of broadband service in Illinois, calling it a top priority.
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  • JAN 29, 2019
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    House to vote on new rules while GOP weighs options to get bills heard

    The Illinois House will take their first votes of the 101st General Assembly on Tuesday, approving House rules — as is standard at the start of every new legislative session.
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  • JAN 28, 2019
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    Inspector General’s report finds Lightford’s husband should not have been hired at CTA

    A new report from Illinois’ Office of the Executive Inspector General has found that the husband of State Sen. Kimberly Lightford (D-Maywood) was wrongfully hired at the Chicago Transit Authority in 2016 after he bragged about being married to Lightford.
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