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Court blocks new Illinois law allowing state to penalize anti-abortion pregnancy centers

The law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker last week bans anti-abortion pregnancy centers, often known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” from using “misinformation, deceptive practices, or misrepresentation” to interfere with access to abortion services or emergency contraception

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Gas pains: Don’t hold back on speaking out about Peoples Gas rate hike proposal

You have a chance to make your feelings known about the utility’s request for a $402 million rate hike at a public hearing Tuesday before the Illinois Commerce Commission.

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President Joe Biden creates Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Chicago and Mississippi

‘What Emmett did, he gave up a lot, but it helped a lot of people. And he still speaks from the grave,’ Emmett Till’s cousin, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., who witnessed Till being kidnapped, told the Sun-Times.

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Ex-Mayor Lori Lightfoot sued to keep a letter about the city treasurer secret from the Tribune. Will Brandon Johnson continue her fight?

CHICAGO -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is so far continuing a public records legal battle he inherited from predecessor Lori Lightfoot over a letter regarding alleged misconduct at the city treasurer’s office.

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Illinois Democrats celebrate court decision ending cash bail: ‘Monumental change is possible’

On the other side, Senate Republican Leader John Curran said the ruling warrants a special session to address key concerns before cash bail is eliminated in September.

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Pension stripped from former state lawmaker who called bribes he passed to another pol ‘the jackpot’

The state General Assembly Retirement System board voted to strip former state Rep. Luis Arroyo of his more than $4,500-a-month state pension, citing state law that allows retirement benefits to be taken from ex-lawmakers if they commit felonies arising from their time in office.

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A year after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Illinois is fighting hard to protect abortion rights

The numbers of Americans supporting abortion rights since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision are encouraging. But the fight is far from over to safeguard women’s right to make their own decisions about pregnancy.

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Benedictines’ world leader calls on Chicago-area monks tied to Benet, Marmion high schools to fully report clergy sex abuse

“I think that they should be” posting lists of abusive members “because it’s been actually asked of us by the larger church,” the Rev. Gregory Polan told the Sun-Times.

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Ex-priest, who left after sex abuse accusations, settlements, not among 451 predatory clergy Kwame Raoul’s investigation turned up

John D. Murphy, a former Augustinian priest, isn’t on any public list of abusers. The attorney general’s investigation didn’t name him. The Archdiocese of Chicago settled claims over Murphy but doesn’t include him on its list. And his Catholic religious order hasn’t named abusers — but said…

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Todd Maisch dies at 57: Illinois Chamber of Commerce leader and business ‘champion’

State officials remembered Todd Maisch as an advocate for the business community who could find common ground between adversaries across political lines.

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Peoples Gas rate hike should be slashed by $63 million, consumer watchdogs say

Peoples Gas maintains that most customers’ bills would remain “largely flat” despite the $402 million rate increase they’re asking the Illinois Commerce Commission to approve.

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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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

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Illinois probe reveals rampant sexual abuse in Catholic Church

The report names 451 clerics and religious brothers with substantiated claims of sexual abuse against them in the US.

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Illinois attorney general to discuss four-year investigation of sexual abuse in Catholic clergy

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is set to discuss his office’s more than four-year investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state going back decades

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Catholic church in Illinois vastly underreported clergy sex abuse, Kwame Raoul finds

At the start of a five-year investigation by the attorney general, Cardinal Blase Cupich told seminarians the Archdiocese of Chicago had “posted all of the names” of predatory clergy. As the investigation neared its end, Cupich kept adding names.

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Illinois attorney general to discuss investigation of Catholic clergy sexual abuse

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is set to discuss his office’s more than four-year investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy in the state going back decades

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Michael McClain’s Illinois pension is suspended after ComEd bribery conviction

The suspension against McClain, a top confidant of former House Speaker Michael Madigan, may not hold since his crimes occurred years after his time in office.

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Downstate Danville backs abortion pills ban, defying legal risks

The city council bans shipping and mailing of abortion pills in a vote Tuesday in defiance of state law protecting the procedure. Abortion advocates are mulling a challenge.

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Illinois city backs abortion pills ban, defying legal risks

An Illinois city is supporting a ban on the mailing or shipping of abortion pills

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Lawmakers can keep health care and prescription drugs affordable

Our representatives in Springfield should turn their attention to the big drug companies that continue to profit off the backs of hard-working families.

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GI Bill snafus fallout: Illinois attorney general backs decorated Army vet James Rudisill’s bid to Supreme Court to restore benefits

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul signed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Army veteran James Rudisill, who says the VA shortchanged him out of GI Bill benefits he earned over multiple service periods.

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