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Football notebook: Joliet Catholic’s Dillan Johnson and Bolingbrook’s Kyan Berry Johnson commit and Charlie Bliss retires

Kyan Berry Johnson, a three-star receiver ranked 24th among Illinois juniors, committed to Wisconsin last month.

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Last-minute power grid bill is bad for Illinois transition to renewable energy

If enacted, the law would put the downstate utility Ameren in charge of new regional power lines crossing its territory, possibly including those that would connect the Chicago area to solar and wind energy.

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William Brandt Jr., influential Democrat, corporate restructuring pioneer, dies at 73

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said, ‘Bill was always a no-bulls---, honest and direct sounding board — whether we agreed or not.’

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Illinois might become the first-ever American state to stop book bans

At a time when America is witnessing book bans, the news is that Illinois is going to become the first state to end book bans and censorship.

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What Illinois can do since Supreme Court gutted federal protection of wetlands, waterways

The Supreme Court last week restricted the EPA’s ability to protect America’s waterways and wetlands. Illinois can’t afford to sit back and do nothing to protect both in our state, the head of the Illinois Environmental Council writes.

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Big brothers: The best sibling combinations in Illinois high school basketball history

Illinois high school basketball is in the midst of witnessing perhaps the biggest barrage of sibling stars the state has ever seen.

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Illinois set to become first state to end book bans

Governor JB Pritzker expected to sign bill that would block state funding for public libraries and schools that ban books

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Mayor Johnson invokes ‘soul’ of Chicago’s ancestors at Memorial Day ceremony

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle reflected on the complicated story of Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, the Illinois native and Civil War general who founded the holiday. Monday’s event was at Logan’s statue in Grant Park.

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Freelancers, a new Illinois law says you have the right to be paid on time

A recently passed bill, similar to a New York City law, would provide pay protections for freelance workers. An Aurora-based freelancer urges Gov. J.B. Pritzker to sign it and make Illinois the first state to extend such protections on a broad scale.

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State budget awaits Pritzker’s signature after clearing House without Republican support

Just after 2:30 a.m., the House voted 73-38 to pass the budget, which Gov. J.B. Pritzker touted as his “fifth balanced budget,” vowing to sign it.

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Kwame Raoul slams Blase Cupich comments on priest sex abuse report

The cardinal’s questions on how the Illinois attorney general’s abuse claims were substantiated “are particularly perplexing because many of those 125 names” came from the Archdiocese of Chicago, Raoul said.

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Ald. Walter Burnett Jr. still can’t explain what happened with $165,000 in campaign money

What the Chicago City Council member’s now-amended campaign-finance reports show is that, in some instances, “You’re telling us you deposited the money back into the campaign fund, and we see no such thing,” an Illinois elections official says.

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Daniel Penny: subway killing of Jordan Neely opens new front in culture war

It has been three years since a 17-year-old from Illinois shot dead two protesters during an anti-police riot in the Wisconsin town of Kenosha, said Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times.

The Week

Half of city neighborhoods lack electric vehicle chargers for public use

Building a robust network of chargers to make EV ownership feasible, whether you live in a rural town or a big city like Chicago, is proving difficult.

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2 million Illinoisans expected to travel Memorial Day weekend

Most of those getting away will be hitting the road, with travel likely to peak Friday, AAA said.

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Chicago cardinal defends compensation plan, urges info on abusers after Illinois abuse report

The archbishop of Chicago is urging the Illinois attorney general to provide information about newly uncovered cases of priests who sexually abused minors that were included in a statewide investigative report

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Man steals backhoe for 10-mile drive to downstate Illinois airport to catch flight, authorities say

A Carbondale man is accused of stealing a backhoe from a work site, driving it to an airport and getting on a flight.

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Cupich’s lackluster response to alarming undercount of Catholic clergy sex abuse won’t cut it

There’s no room for anything other than full acceptance of the hard, brutal truth revealed by a five-year investigation: The Catholic Church in Illinois failed to acknowledge hundreds of allegedly abusive priests and other religious figures.

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The Independent UK

Catholic clergy 700-page abuse report could prompt lawsuits and changes to Illinois law

Illinois’ attorney general ended a five-year investigation into sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state Tuesday, releasing a nearly 700-page report that revealed the problem was far worse than the church had said in 2018 at the start of the state’s review

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Illinois 2025 4-star linebacker is offered by Ohio State

The Buckeyes offer the impressive Illinois linebacker #GoBucks

The Hindu

Telangana student killed in road accident in the U.S.

A student hailing from the Mahabubnagar district in the State was killed in a road accident in Illinois in the United States on Tuesday.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois man held in attempted arson of planned abortion clinic said he’d ‘finish the job’ if freed, feds say

CHICAGO — The Illinois man accused of crashing his car into a future abortion clinic in downstate Danville while attempting to set it on fire told authorities he intended to destroy the building so it could not be used to provide abortions and would attempt to do so again if…

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Catholic clergy abuse report could prompt lawsuits, changes to Illinois law

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Pritzker, Democratic leaders take victory lap for reaching budget deal — and only drag their feet a bit in actually filing bill

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon and Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced agreement on a budget they said was balanced “without gimmicks.” Six hours later, Democrats filed the legislation, which must still pass both chambers before the governor can sign it.

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Illinois must provide more funding for people with disabilities

Our state ranks 49th out of 50 states for funding and support of the estimated 300,000 Illinoisans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. That has to change, state lawmakers write.

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