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Politicians who operate in ways that bring them personal benefit could end up on a slippery slope.

With cases on the rise statewide, only about 41% of eligible Chicagoans have gotten their recommended COVID-19 booster shot. And almost a quarter of Illinois counties are now at the CDC risk level in which older people and the immunocompromised are urged to mask up indoors.

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — The call came into the southern Illinois abortion clinic on a recent weekday: A young woman from Missouri was on the line, frantic because she no longer had the money to pay for her $470 procedure, which was scheduled for the next day.

A California kid in the 1970s, he accompanied his mother to demonstrations, including marches for abortion rights. The governor says it inspired his fight for women’s and LGBTQ rights: “Those are all things that I think my mother would want me to do.”

Unlike commercial farmers, organic farmers say they’ve largely been insulated from the impact of world events and that their prices will be competitive.

As a pharmacist who has worked across the state for more than two decades, I’ve seen the harsh impact of the opioid crisis first-hand. I urge Gov. Pritzker to sign Senate Bill 2535 without delay and help more at-risk patients be prepared in an emergency overdose situation.

They are the words every parent fears. Your darling child abruptly stands up in front of several seated guests at the dinner table and declares: “Mum, Dad, when I grow up, I want to be Governor of Illinois.”

In Kankakee, Biden sought to focus farmers’ anger on Russian President Vladimir Putin and “Putin’s war.” In Chicago, an animated Biden detailed his infrastructure plan’s creation of jobs at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ International Convention.

Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. (CSE: AAWH.U) (OTCQX: AAWH), a vertically integrated multi-state cannabis operator, on Wednesday, reported its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2022.

As Roe decision looms, Kentuckians prepare for abortion ban

The White House on Wednesday strongly condemned the killing of Al Jazeera reporter and Palestinian American Shireen Abu Akleh and called for an investigation into her death. The reporter was shot to death during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. White House deputy press secretary Karine…