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Gov. JB Pritzker holds a news conference on abortion in Chicago on Monday. [Gov. JB Pritzker/Facebook]
Monday marked 51 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision and the second anniversary of the ruling since the court overturned it last year, leaving issues of abortion policy up to the states.
Gov. JB Pritzker marked the anniversary by continuing his strategy of keeping abortion a top-of-mind political issue with a news conference on the subject and a pair of statements through his political arm that focused on why abortion will be a top issue in the 2024 election.
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Rep. Nabeela Syed (D-Palatine) speaks at a news conference in Springfield on Wednesday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
A Commerce Commission-style board to regulate prescription drug prices in Illinois could be established under a new bill pushed by advocates and a pair of Democratic state lawmakers.
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Gov. JB Pritzker holds a news conference at Rochester Elementary School in Rochester on Thursday. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
Illinois’ Smart Start preschool program, which aims to eliminate deserts to early childhood education and was the centerpiece of Gov. JB Pritzker’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget, had a successful first year that saw the state’s investment create more seats than expected.
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The House Freedom Caucus holds a news conference on Wednesday to discuss their trips to the Texas border and migrant shelters in Chicago. [Ben Szalinski/The Daily Line]
General Assembly Republicans are offering up their solutions for the migrant crisis, chiefly calling for repealing the state’s TRUST Act that makes Illinois a sanctuary state, as discussions begin in Springfield about new steps to grasp the migrant crisis after a year-and-a-half of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott busing asylum seekers to Chicago.
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