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Backlog of firearms to be processed at the Chicago police firearms laboratory at the Homan Square police facility, June 9, 2021.

Rep. Marie Newman: Without universal background checks, Illinois’ gun laws are only as good as its neighboring states’

February 28, 2022 at 4:23 p.m.

A dangerous debate on gun reform is brewing in Indiana. Despite appeals raised directly by local law enforcement leaders, for the second time in two years the state's Republican-dominated legislature...

A person walks by the U.S. Post Office on South Ewing Avenue, March 1, 2021, in the East Side neighborhood of Chicago.

Op-ed: Banking at the post office? Service would help millions of ‘unbanked’ Americans

April 12, 2021 at 5:36 p.m.

Last month, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan, the boldest economic relief package since President Roosevelt's New Deal nearly a century ago. For many, the most notable portion of the...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with senators from both parties on the need to invest in modern and sustainable American infrastructure, in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11, 2021.

Op-ed: $1.9 trillion for a COVID-19 relief package should be the minimum — not the max

February 17, 2021 at 12:23 p.m.

This week marks the 12-year anniversary of President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the historic stimulus package passed in 2009 to lift the nation out of the Great...

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