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CHICAGO – Little less than a year after a young Mississippi woman captured national headlines successfully challenging a local school policy that denied her ability to wear a tuxedo to a public high scho
Updated to Add Tuesday, March 15th, 3:15 p.m. - HB 3156 was passed out of the Agriculture Committee on a 13-0 vote, over opposition from the ACLU of Illinois. HB 1919 was not called for consideration before the committee adjourned.
CHICAGO – With the stroke of his pen, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn today ended the embarrassment caused the state by a broken, dysfunctional and dangerous death penalty system -- a system that had seen 20 men exonerated and released over the past several years.
Updated to Add: Tuesday, March 8th - The House Agriculture Committee adjourned today after a two hour hearing. The three anti-choice bills discussed below were not called. We believe they will be called next week.
CHICAGO - With early voting already underway in the mayoral and aldermanic elections, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois called on the new city government to adopt a moratorium on the placement of new surveillance cameras in the City of Chicago.
Chicago -- Governor Pat Quinn today signs into law the Illinois Religious Freedom and Protection and