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Elise Hauptmann, center, hugs her friend Amy Sabor as a group of activists and survivors board a bus on Jan. 5, 2023, in Highland Park for Springfield to lobby legislators to ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity gun magazines.

Illinois House sends Senate bills banning certain semi-automatic weapons, expanding abortion protections

January 6, 2023 at 4:53 p.m.

With Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker seated in the front row of the chamber, the Illinois House early Friday approved a sweeping ban on high-powered firearms about two hours after voting...

A man pays cash bail in the bond office to secure his brother's release on Dec. 21, 2022, at Division 5 of the Cook County Jail.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker ‘comfortable and confident’ cashless bail is constitutional despite court ruling to contrary

January 4, 2023 at 1:49 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Wednesday that he is "comfortable and confident" a state law ending cash bail that was set to take effect New Year's Day is constitutional despite a...

Gov. JB Pritzker cheers with the crowd at his primary election night party on June 28, 2022, at the Marriott Marquis Grand Horizon Ballroom in Chicago. (Erin Hooley / baiduhai)

Gov. J.B. Pritzker ran a cautious reelection campaign. Will he play it safe in second term?

January 3, 2023 at 8:28 a.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker begins his second term Jan. 9 emboldened by a decisive reelection victory, a slew of wins in November by Democratic candidates he helped fund and a series...

Gas prices at a BP gas station on Feb. 4, 2022, in Chicago.

Hikes to minimum wage and gas tax, new state snake and rock among changes taking effect Jan. 1

January 1, 2023 at 8:58 a.m.

Debate around the proposed end of cash bail in Illinois on Jan. 1 dominated the political discourse during this fall's political races and is now the subject of a court...

Gwendolyn Baxter, second from right, speaks about the 2016 shooting death of her son, Larry Harper, in Chicago alongside other supporters on Dec. 12, 2022, during an Illinois House committee hearing at the Bilandic Building about new gun legislation.

Survivors of mass shootings in Highland Park, East Garfield Park voice support for proposed assault weapon ban

December 12, 2022 at 7:20 p.m.

On the surface, Highland Park and East Garfield Park don't have much in common. But in the past six months, both the affluent, largely white North Shore suburb and the...

Tanvi Nayak, 22, receives a bivalent COVID-19 booster from pharmacist Morgan Murphy at the CVS store at 25 E. Ohio St. in October.

Holiday season bringing another rise in COVID-19

December 10, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

In what's become an unwelcome tradition over the past two years, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been on the rise again in Illinois amid the holiday season. This year, the...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker answers questions after signing a bill restricting the sale and possession of unserialized firearms, also known as ghost guns, on May 18, 2022. On Wednesday Pritzker voiced his support for a new proposal that would outlaw assault-style weapons and other gun control reforms.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker aims to get assault weapon ban proposal ‘done in the first half of the year’

December 7, 2022 at 7:22 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who made banning the sale of assault weapons a key component of his successful reelection campaign this fall, for the first time voiced support for the recently...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker holds a post-election news conference Nov. 9, 2022, at the Marriott Marquis.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs amendment to criminal justice overhaul weeks before cash bail set to end

December 6, 2022 at 7:31 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday signed into law changes to a controversial criminal justice overhaul that will eliminate cash bail beginning Jan. 1, making good on assurances he gave during...

The exterior of Pontiac Correctional Center in Pontiac, Illinois, is seen in 2017.

Sexual harassment allegations led to leadership shake-up at Pontiac prison, inspector general report shows

December 7, 2022 at 12:04 p.m.

The hazing and sexual harassment of an employee at Pontiac Correctional Center in 2018 led to a shake-up of the maximum security prison's top staff last year, according to an...

State Rep. Justin Slaughter celebrates after the chamber passed changes to the controversial criminal justice law known as the SAFE-T Act at the Illinois Capitol building on Dec. 1.

Confronted by GOP critics and confused constituents, Democrats made fixes to their sweeping criminal justice law

December 4, 2022 at 12:39 p.m.

After months of blistering attacks from Republicans as well as some criticism from members of their own party, Democratic lawmakers came together during the final legislative session of the year...

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