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Published April 7, 2021 • Updated on April 7, 2021 at 2:51 pm Getty Images Municipal elections were held across Illinois on Tuesday, with voters heading to the polls around the state to make their voices heard in local races impacting their communities. While state law allows mail-in ballots to be counted for up to two weeks after they arrive, provided they are postmarked by Election Day, county election officials responsible for tabulating votes released preliminary results after polls closed Tuesday night. Get the answer to your most-asked COVID vaccine questions on our mobile NBC 5...

'Art and Pep' spotlights the life and love of Chicago civil rights leaders Thu. April 1, 2021 9:20 AM by Ross Forman photo credit // artandpep.org 'ART AND PEP is the love story behind the long battle to love – and live – freely,' says director Mercedes Kane Art Johnston was doing a two-year theatre program at Northwestern University when some guys in the theatre department told him that about bars in Chicago “for people like us.” Johnston soon thereafter walked into a gay bar in 1973 named Shari’s, where a bartender that...

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 the legislature would like a say in appropriating money, given our role,” Rep. Michael Zalewski, D-R...

The House Human Services Committee on Tuesday moved bills aimed at closing disparities in access to pharmacies and allowing transgender and intersex individuals to change their sex on their birth

The House Human Services Committee on Tuesday moved bills aimed at closing disparities in access to pharmacies and allowing transgender and intersex