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WBGZ Radio 5/31/2021 | By Kevin Bessler - Illinois Radio Network Democrats released revised legislative maps Thursday evening and approved them the next night without any support from Republicans, who criticized the data used to draw the maps and the process by which the legislative districts were drawn. Last Friday, Democrats released draft legislative boundaries, but no data to back up how the lines were drawn. They held several hearings where community groups demanded the data be released. Early Friday morning, the amendments to the bills that contained the updated maps were filed and for...

Partisan outrage over new proposed district lines for the Illinois Supreme Court was on full display Friday in the Illinois General Assembly.

Partisan outrage over new proposed district lines for the Illinois Supreme Court was on full display Friday in the Illinois General Assembly. The House

A bill to allow special education students who turn 22 to continue with their classwork until the end of the school year has passed unanimously through the State Senate.

The House passed the maps shortly before 10 p.m. on a straight, partisan 71 to 45 vote. They passed the state Senate in the same fashion earlier in the day. "We are not going to let Republicans gridlock the process, solely for political gains," state House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch said minutes before the vote. "It’s not going to happen. Not here. Period."