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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. Good Wednesday morning, Illinois. I’m Daniel Payne, your guest host while Shia Kapos is off this week. While she’s away, Illinois Playbook won't publish Thursday but will be back on Friday. TOP TALKER The General Assembly will briefly...

Several Chicago nonprofits are collaborating to provide new, free bystander intervention trainings for the public. The newest trainings are specifically meant to combat hate crimes and discrimination against Asian Americans and muslims.

US Lawyers Write to President Biden on Farmers' Protests, Modi Govt's Repressive Tactics 'Your administration comes to office at a time when minority communities across India are in peril,' notes the letter, urging the US President to act. U.S. President Joe Biden addresses National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff during a visit to NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., February 11, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria World15/Feb/2021 New Delhi: More than 40 lawyers of south Asian descent have written an open letter to US President Joseph Biden, asking him to take note of the farmers’ protests an...

Community organizations call for removal of president of DePaul-partnered police union Cailey Gleeson, News Editor|February 7, 2021 Seventy-eight local and national organizations wrote a letter on Feb. 1 to the Chicago Police Board and Mayor Lori Lightfoot calling for the removal of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara in light of his possible dismissal from CPD for racist comments. The letter has been getting national attention, said CAIR Deputy Director Sufyan Sohel. “I think the George Floyd murder really brought to issue of who are police officers,” Sohel sa...

Chicago Muslims applaud Biden's reversal of Trump's travel ban WLS Share: "I'm so happy. It's very good," he said. President Biden signed an executive order reversing former President Trump's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries. "A lot of people from the Syrian refugee community are asking, does this mean that our family members can now apply for visas if they need to," said Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, the executive director of the Syrian Community Network. The ban sparked demonstrations at O'Hare International Airport and airports across the country when it went into effe...