(Editor s Note: This article was published first at Illinois Policy Institute).
Former state Rep. Mike Madigan was the longest-serving statehouse legislative leader in U.S. history, serving as Illinois House speaker for 36 years. On April 22, Illinois House members passed a bill to prevent another Madigan by limiting legislative leadership to 10 years.
House Bill 642 passed with 115 “yes” votes and one abstention. Under this legislation, no person may serve more than 10 consecutive years in any of the following leadership roles: speaker of the House of Representatives, president of the Senate, minority leader of the House of Representatives, and minority leader of the Senate.
It’s a question researcher Katherine Lee asked after her own experience.
”I had spotting when I normally don t have any sort of menstrual symptoms, because I have the Mirena IUD,” said Lee, a postdoctoral research scholar in the Division of Public Health Sciences at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Lee reached out to Kate Clancy, an associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, who then tweeted about it.
“That tweet was sent February 24th, and I m still getting, like, every minute an additional 20 notifications, that have some kind of engagement with that thread two months later,” Clancy said.
Best Life: New spinal surgery for patients with herniated discs
Best Life: New spinal surgery helping patients with herniated discs By Ivanhoe Broadcast News | April 26, 2021 at 8:25 AM CDT - Updated April 26 at 8:25 AM
CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) This year, 1.6 million Americans will undergo spinal surgery for herniated discs, bone spurs and even conditions like stenosis. Now, details from one of the few surgeons in the country performing a new ultra- minimally invasive awake spine surgery that could have patients up and walking the same day.
Retiree Joe Deakin is no stranger to back pain, working over 30 years in construction.
“Lot of heavy lifting and climbing, it took a toll on me,” Deakin recalled.
CHICAGO (AP) The stranger’s call came when Dianne Green needed it most.
Alone in the home where she’d raised four kids, grieving recently deceased relatives, too fearful of COVID-19 to see her grandkids and great-grandbabies, she had never felt lonelier.
Then, one day last spring, her cell phone lit up.
The cheerful voice on the line was Janine Blezien, a nurse from a Chicago hospital’s “friendly caller” program, created during the pandemic to help lonely seniors cope with isolation. Blezien, 57, lives with her rescue dogs, Gordy and Kasey, in a suburban brick bungalow, just six miles from Green’s two-flat apartment in the city.
Illinois COVID-19 Update: IL reports 3,170 new coronavirus cases, 33 deaths; Chicago-run vaccine sites to allow some walk-in appointments ABC 7 Chicago Digital Team
Chicago to allow some walk-in vaccinations at city-run sites starting Friday
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Illinois public health officials reported 3,170 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 33 related deaths Thursday.
There have been 1,312,722 total COVID cases, including 21,755 deaths in the state since the pandemic began.
As of Wednesday night, 2,147 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 511 patients were in the ICU and 238 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported testing 88,336 specimens for a total of 22,008,695 since the pandemic began.