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Asian population fastest-growing in state Tom Emery, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail Demonstrators hold signs underneath an American flag as they take part in a rally in Chicago against Asian hate crimes.Shafkat Anowar | AP Rising violence against Asian-Americans has added to a tense climate surrounding race in the United States and particularly in Illinois, which has one of the highest Asian populations in the nation. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Illinois had...

Winter upstate is no joke, and with patio dining off the menu and doors closed on the few...

Are vaccines distributed equally across New York? Are vaccines being distributed evenly across New York? 7 Eyewitness News crunched the numbers to find out. and last updated 2021-02-24 16:51:04-05 ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. (WKBW) — Are vaccines distributed evenly across New York? 7 Eyewitness News crunched the numbers to find out. First we calculated the population of each region using 2010 census data. This number is just the population. It does not reflect how many people are eligible for the CO...

Jillian: republicans trying to separate chicago from the rest of the state, caldwell is native of the windy city who is frustrated with the leadership that says this is not the answer. next.

Its not even down state illinois, its will county, very conservative areas, how do they do it? because in illinois specifically the speaker of the house is also the chairman of the illinois democratic party, so they really utilized the influence of the state resources and put together army to take over the states political influence, i think thats pretty problematic, you have the speaker of the house who is the longest serving speaker for over 40 years, this is a problem and we see this across t...

>> support supreme court justices roe v. wade campaigning in alabama while condemning the states new abortion law. >> right now all across the united states there is a well-funded attack coordinated by right wing streamistextremists to deny wome right to control their own bodies and their own futures. rob: 2020 hopefuls and senators kirsten gillibrand and cory booker have made similar about supreme court justices. jillian: d.c. being unhappy d.c. 34reugs super hero. a company cease and decease l...

The committee which was beginning of legislative process in the state of illinois, you know what, i do share the frustrations of representative brad as former republican party, african-american outreach director which by tradition most conservative country for every dollar that goes to state capital in springfield, resources are sent back in cook county which compromises chicago, 40% of the states population, they received 90 cents on the dollar in terms of resources back. jillian: gianno, if th...

The governors mansion, if we really want to change dynamics of the state of illinois we have to put together a coalition of individuals who agree with our traditions on policies of conservatives and makes most sense to me, we cant put resolution that is we know we wont pass, we have to do the actual work on the ground and make real systematic change in the state of illinois, quote from the bill that the republicans are trying to push forward here. majority of residence in down state illinois dis...

Africas young people improve to the world that they could do anything. to present it watching d.w. news from berlin coming up next shift living in the digital age on a tech show this week were asking do our so-called smart phones actually dumb us down state.

Look, heres the thing. all of these people, they have all been members of conservative districts. right? and what politicians do is they play to their districts. at the time kristen gillibrand was coming from upstate new york. upstate new york looks very different than down state. right? a different democratic makeup. >> yep kwhanch. >> what played there is not going to play around the country now that you have the 116th congress, more reflective of america that has embraced the progressive stan...