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  • HEADLINE HEADACHES — VICE IN THE SUBURBS — KINZINGER WANTS GAETZ OUT – Politico

    HEADLINE HEADACHES — VICE IN THE SUBURBS — KINZINGER WANTS GAETZ OUT – Politico0

    TGIF, Illinois. Enjoy the weekend and get ready for the General Assembly to return to work next week for two months of big-issue legislating. BREAKING FROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE: Prince Philip, the queen’s husband, has died at age 99. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spent the week having to talk about the police shooting of Adam Toledo

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  • Is India Running Out Of Vaccine Doses? – NPR Illinois

    Is India Running Out Of Vaccine Doses? – NPR Illinois0

    MUMBAI — About 100 vaccination centers abruptly shut down Friday in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, amid a shortage of doses and as the country confirmed its highest daily jump in coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. People who had appointments to get their shots arrived to find printouts taped to hospital gates warning them that

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  • Immigrants Charge Illinois Jail With Medical Neglect – WBEZ

    Immigrants Charge Illinois Jail With Medical Neglect – WBEZ0

    William Russell is begging the federal government to deport him immediately. If he can’t be deported to Jamaica, Russell is asking to be released from an immigration detention center in southern Illinois so he can get adequate medical care. Russell fears that he will die if he remains in detention at the Pulaski County Detention

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  • Late night accident in Coles County last night –

    Late night accident in Coles County last night –0

    Coles County, feature BY JOHN KRAFT & KIRK ALLEN ON April 9, 2021 Ashmore, IL. (ECWd) – Just inside the Coles County line, between Ashmore and Kansas, was an accident around 10 p.m. last night. It appears a vehicle hit a guardrail. We saw this on our way back from the Shelby County Board meeting.

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  • EPA Chief’s Justice Pledge Tested by Chicago Metal-Plant Fight – Bloomberg Law

    EPA Chief’s Justice Pledge Tested by Chicago Metal-Plant Fight – Bloomberg Law0

    Southeast Chicago residents living with lead in their Little League fields and neurotoxins in their air have fought city and state officials for years to prevent a massive metal shredding plant from moving into their neighborhood along the Calumet River. And now that new EPA Administrator Michael Regan is insisting that community-focused environmental equity will

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  • FOIA in Illinois: 7 things people would like to change – Chicago Tribune

    FOIA in Illinois: 7 things people would like to change – Chicago Tribune0

    The promise of the Illinois Freedom of Information Act is that average citizens should be able to receive information about how public agencies are making decisions, simply by asking for documents and records. However, the statute — and the ways in which the statute is sometimes interpreted — is far from perfect. Here are seven

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