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SPRINGFIELD, Ill.- Illinois House and Senate Republicans gathered outside of Governor JB Pritzker’s office Wednesday demanding a bipartisan map. They continue to claim that Democrats are pushing a partisan redistricting process through Springfield. GOP lawmakers criticized Democrats last week for meeting behind closed doors to work on their map. When Pritzker ran for Governor in 2018, he promised to veto any partisan drawn map. However, Republicans now believe he has gone back on that promis...

A young woman’s experience while being held on immigration charges at McHenry County jail is helping spur efforts to end the practice of keeping federal detainees at the jail.

POLITICO Get the Illinois Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Illini for Affordable Rx Happy Thursday, Illinois. In a roller-coaster world of news, todays vaccination report from the govern...

In Washington, D.C., a new president just marked his 100th day in office by celebrating the ambitious start to America’s COVID-19 vaccination program and a relief plan that’s reduced food insecurity by 40%, with an ambitious agenda to fix roads and bridges, tackle climate change, and vastly expand child care, community college, and other government programs. In Phoenix, Arizona, a team of self-made election auditors is hunting for microscopic fibers of bamboo as they recount 2020 e...

A former Trump administration official thinks he has the best solution for flipping Congress to Republican control in the 2022 midterm elections — not by promoting good candidates or ideas that appeal to voters, but by redrawing congressional maps in GOP-leaning states through extreme partisan gerrymandering. Carlos Trujillo, who worked in the Trump White House and is also a former Florida lawmaker, told Axios this week that he believes his home state is the key to Republicans taking control...

Dennys Shareholders Revolt After Top Exec Concedes $15 Minimum Wage Wont Hurt Business By Julia Rock, The Daily Poster On 5/5/21 at 12:55 PM EDT Citing a Newsweek report, Dennys shareholders are demanding that the restaurant chain end its membership in the National Restaurant Association, halt all lobbying efforts against legislation to eliminate a subminimum wage for tipped workers, and start paying all its workers at least a full minimum wage. In a letter sent to Dennys CEO John Miller, s...

This could be the year federal paid leave finally passes Vox.com 8 hrs ago Li Zhou © Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call Inc./Getty Images Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has led the push for paid leave for years. The current pandemic — and its disproportionate effects on women and people of color — have underscored a major issue: the dire need for paid family and medical leave in America. President Joe Biden, by including paid leave in his American Families Plan, is sending ...

(AP Photo/Matt Volz) While Democrats in Washington are busily working to find ways to pass more restrictive gun control laws, Montana is headed in a decidedly different direction. On Friday, Governor Greg Gianforte signed a new bill into law that’s pretty much the opposite of “gun control.” This law prohibits law enforcement officials or other state workers from enforcing federal gun restrictions or spending taxpayer funds on restricting certain firearms, ammunition, or accessories such a...

Catholic immigration advocates say Christian response needed at border Apr 9, 2021 national correspondent A mother from Guatemala seeking asylum in the U.S. kisses her 3-month-old baby while waiting to be escorted by Border Patrol agents in Roma, Texas, April 7, 2021, after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States. (Credit: Go Nakamura/Reuters, via CNS). While democrat leaders continue to point the finger at the previous administration for present challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border, and...

The Border Crisis Today: Americas Crisis For Years To Come. Description: While Democrats are ignoring - and causing - the catastrophe at the border, the crisis is quickly escalating into a nightmare. We now have a humanitarian problem, a monetary burden, a healthcare crisis, a sex trafficking epidemic, and a drug problem - all which are inflicting a lethal devastation to our nation. WILL JOHNSON is the founder of Unite America First. He was a Democrat his entire life until he moved to the sta...