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House passes bill to allow recreational pot sales in Buffalo Grove Daniel Didech Updated 5/25/2021 6:30 PM State representatives passed a bill Tuesday that could clear the way for Buffalo Groves medical cannabis dispensary to begin selling recreational marijuana. Proposed by Rep. Daniel Didech, a Democrat from Buffalo Grove, the measure would allow the Sunnyside dispensary to sell pot for recreational use out of its new location at 830 Milwaukee Ave.   Sunnyside had a recreational ...

WBGZ Radio 5/12/2021 | By Andrew Hensel - Illinois Radio Network Bobcats get a bad rap, said Jennifer Kuroda, president of the Illinois Bobcat Foundation.  Taxidermists pose them to look menacing: teeth bared and poised to attack. In reality, bobcats are small creatures – the average adult weighs 19 pounds. Bobcats are very shy and extremely unlikely to attack humans, Kuroda said. Forty years ago, the wild bobcat population in Illinois was nearly wiped out. To reestablish the species, the h...

(The Center Square) – Bobcats get a bad rap, said Jennifer Kuroda, president of the Illinois Bobcat Foundation. Taxidermists pose them to look menacing: Teeth bared and poised to attack. Bobcats are small creatures – the average adult weighs 19 pounds. Bobcats are very shy and extremely unlikely to attack humans, Kuroda said. Forty years ago, the wild bobcat population in Illinois was nearly wiped out. To reestablish the species, the hunting and trapping of bobcats was banned. Over many yea...

Wondering whom to call? Here are suburban lawmakers committee seats in the Illinois House for 2021-22.

Wondering whom to call? Here are suburban lawmakers committee seats in the Illinois House for 2021-22.

State lawmakers are considering a number of changes to Illinois gambling laws, including a measure that would lift the prohibition on gambling on in-state colleges and universities. Other measures discussed by the House Executive Committee Wednesday would legalize and regulate certain internet gambling programs, or I-gaming, and ban “sweepstakes” machines which mirror video gambling but are otherwise not regulated by the state the same way slot machines are. Rep. Mike Zalewski, a Riverside ...

Originally published on March 16, 2021 11:32 am The Illinois House Ethics and Elections Committee advanced a bill Monday that would expand ballot drop boxes and curbside voting throughout the state. House Bill 1871 would make changes similar to those passed ahead of the 2020 presidential election during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill was introduced last month by Democratic Rep. Katie Stuart of Edwardsville. Under HB 1871, Illinois may use federal funds distributed to states for election admi...

The Illinois House Ethics and Elections Committee advanced a bill Monday that would expand ballot drop boxes and curbside voting throughout the state.

Illinois may use federal funds to create and maintain secure collection sites for mail ballots.

Lawmakers from both parties told officials from Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration on Thursday, March 11 that the General Assembly should have some say in how the state spends the $7.5 billion in federal funds that Illinois expects to receive from the newly-enacted American Rescue Plan. Those comments came during a virtual hearing of the House Revenue and Finance Committee that took place just hours after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill into law. “I think th...