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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 30, 2025
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    New laws going into effect Jan. 1 eliminate hotel’s single-use plastic bottles, require leave for NICU parents

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    Illinois hotels will eliminate small single-use plastic bottles, employers must give time off to parents with kids in the Neonatal Incentive Care Unit (NICU) and libraries will begin carrying opioid overdose reversal medication under new state laws going into effect Jan. 1. 

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 29, 2025
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    Gun storage requirements, AI regulation, end of Illinois’ grocery tax among new laws going into effect Jan. 1

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    The New Year means more than 300 new laws will go into effect in Illinois.  

    Measures enhancing gun storage requirements, prohibiting police from enforcing a waiting period before filing a missing person's report and regulating the use of artificial intelligence (AI), will become law Jan. 1. 

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 23, 2025
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    Raoul, coalition of attorneys general sue Trump administration over CFPB defunding, earn temporary block of HUD funding changes

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    Attorney General Kwame Raoul and a coalition of attorneys general sued the Trump administration Monday to stop the defunding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 22, 2025
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    Illinois Accountability Commission hears testimony on federal agents’ use of chemical agents on protestors

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    Federal immigration agents at the Broadview processing center in September. Paul Goyette from Chicago, USA, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

    The Illinois Accountability Commission held their first public hearing last week, hearing testimony on the use of chemical agents on protestors in the Chicago area. 

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 19, 2025
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    RTA approves 2026 budgets for Chicago transit agencies that avoid service cuts, layoffs

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    The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) board of directors approved 2026 operating budgets for Chicago-area public transit agencies that avoid layoffs and cuts to services.  

    The board also approved a capital program that utilizes new funds from a transit reform and revenue law signed by the governor this week.  

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 18, 2025
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    ISBE hears revenue projections for upcoming fiscal year, approves legislative agenda

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    The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) continued its series of budget hearings and approved the legislative agenda for the 2026 legislative session on Wednesday. 

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 17, 2025
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    Pritzker signs $1.5 billion public transportation revenue and reform bill

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    After nearly a year of negotiations and hearings, a $1.5 billion revenue and reform package for transit agencies in Illinois was signed by Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday. 

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 17, 2025
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    Illinois vaccine advisory panel votes to continue universal Hepatitis B vaccine recommendation

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    The Illinois Department of Public Health’s vaccine advisory committee again rejected federal vaccine recommendations Tuesday, voting to continue to recommend the Hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns. 

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 16, 2025
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    Pritzker signs bills raising minimum detention age for youth offenders, protecting lawmakers from doxxing

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    Gov. JB Pritzker signed a series of bills last week, including measures raising the minimum detention age for juvenile offenders, protecting public officials from doxxing and expanding property tax relief for seniors. 

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  • Camryn Cutinello
    DEC 16, 2025
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    Pritzker says he could have gone either way on medical aid in dying bill, has no plans to endorse in Illinois comptroller primary

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    Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday that he could have gone either way on a measure allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives but ultimately chose to sign the bill. 

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