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More than 7,500 women came from other states to have an abortion in Illinois in 2019, about 16% of all terminated pregnancies that year

The number of abortions performed in Illinois recently increased by almost 10%, with about 4,000 more terminated pregnancies reported in 2019 than the previous year.

CHICAGO – The 2019 data shows a rise in both the number of in-state women terminating a pregnancy as well as those traveling to Illinois from other states for the procedure. Nationally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a slight increase — about 1% — in abortions nationwide from 2017 to 2018, the most recently reported data; however, from 2011 to 2017 the number of ...

Abortions in Illinois increased almost 10% in one year, with more than 7,500 women traveling from out of state Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune © Michael Thomas/Getty Images North America/TNS The exterior of the new Planned Parenthood Reproductive Clinic location is seen on October 2, 2019 in Fairview Heights, Illinois. CHICAGO – The number of abortions performed in Illinois increased by almost 10% in 2019, with about 4,000 more terminated pregnancies reported than t...

  The council on Tuesday voted to solicit interest in filling the seat left vacant on the nine-person council by the resignation of President Paul Hopkins last week. Hopkins stepped down because he is moving out of the area.    The last two vacancies had been filled by the 10th candidate on the ballot, a move that Councilor Wayne Wilkinson advocated for.    "Im a firm believer that person that is on City Council should have been voted by the people," he said. "I know in the past that...

  The Licensing Board on Tuesday approved the transfer of the liquor license from NAH Bar LLC to 413 Bistro LLC. The Richmond Grill in the hotel has been closed for at least a year.   Berkshire Palate opened on Main Street in Williamstown three years ago — a family affair involving Paul Brassard and his sons Zachary, Nolan and Aaron.    Paul Brassard told the board that the entire operation would be moving from Williamstown and a second location was being planned in Pittsfield.   ...

The brief, which claimed it was “in support of neither party,” came as one of a half-dozen filed earlier this month on behalf of the Center for Medical Progress, which Mr. Daleiden heads, in the case before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Certainly animal-rights activists have a stake in this fight: They have for years gone undercover to expose conditions in commercial meat and dairy operations, then fought so-called “ag-gag” laws criminalizing hidden-camera filming on farms. The...

On Thursday, a spokesperson for Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) told CNN and  National Review that the moderate Democrat who has shown true fortitude in standing up to the radicals in his party will not be holding his own on one of President Joe Biden’s worst nominees. Manchin will support the nomination of Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). This makes Becerra’s confirmation virtually certain, and that is a crying shame for America, on m...

AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File Free speech battles can make strange bedfellows. This month, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) joined with two other animal-rights groups in supporting pro-life undercover journalist David Daleiden, whose sting videos revealed Planned Parenthood officials’ attempts to sell aborted baby body parts. Planned Parenthood employees sued and a judge ordered Daleiden to pay them $15.8 million. Daleiden appealed, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals took up ...

145 years ago The mud absorbed the rays of an April sun yesterday and balmy airs were swept over receding puddles and gurgling rills of dirty water. 130 years ago May be the Men. Yesterday Sheriff Bottsford captured Wim. James, alias O’brien, and Wm. Anderson, vagrants who answer to the description of the murderers of Mrs. Greenwood, near Napa. Photographs were sent to Napa last evening. 120 years ago A Base Range Visitor. Peter Breen, a noted base ranger and politician, is in here form Eurek...