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Illinois lawmakers passed a major elections reform bill Monday that moves the state's 2022 primary to June and works to expand access to voting.

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times file Next year’s primary elections would be pushed back by three months under a bill that passed the Illinois House on Monday. It now awaits a vote in the state Senate. An amendment to Senate Bill 825 would, among other things: move the primary from the third Tuesday in March to June 28, 2022; make Election Day a state holiday for schools and universities; require high schools to allow on-site voter registration; change the circulation dates for candidates’ petitions. Another amendment to that bill would update the term “alderman” to “alderperson.” R...

The state's 2022 primary would be in June instead of March and the November election would be a state holiday.

Patty Wetli | June 1, 2021 1:51 pm Andrew Moyer, in his Peoria laboratory, discovered the process for mass producing penicillin. (Credit: The Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture) Illinois has a state pie (pumpkin), a state mineral (fluorite) and a state exercise (cycling). Now it has an official state microbe. Thanks to our sponsors: By unanimous vote, Penicillium rubens (strain NRRL 1951) was added to the State Designation Act during the latest legislative session. Though it may have been one of the quirkier bills passed by the General Assembly, the design...

Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, speaks against legislation to limit where pet stores can source cats and dogs from. Barickman was one of 12 senators to vote against legislation, while a further 4 voted "present." A bill to limit where Illinois pet stores source their cats and dogs from passed the State Senate in the final hours of the General Assembly's session. Supporters of the bill want to close what they call a puppy mill pipeline. The bill would allow pet store owners to offer cats and dogs for sale "only if the dog or cat is obtained from an animal control facility or animal shelt...