Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup confirmed Sen. Scott Bennett was pronounced dead around 1:15 this afternoon at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
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There has been plenty of punditry across Illinois waxing poetic about why Illinois Republicans were drubbed at the polls last month.
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Sen. Scott Bennett (D-Champaign) was taken to an Urbana hospital early Thursday morning after suffering what is believed to be a stroke.
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By the time the new General Assembly is sworn in next month, Republicans will lose a long list of top members, institutional knowledge, charisma, brains, and political acumen.
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Rep. Tom Bennett (R-Gibson City) confirmed Tuesday he will seek the appointment to the Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington).
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Gun rights advocates say they fully expect a Democratic controlled General Assembly to pass a ban on assault rifles during a legislative ‘lame duck’ session early next month, but they say the issue will be decided in court.
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Sen. Jason Barickman (R-Bloomington) blindsided much of the political class in the state Monday dropping a surprise announcement that he would resign from the Senate at the end of the current General Assembly.
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Driving away from Springfield Thursday night, I was feeling particularly sour on the entire legislative process. It had more to do with adults acting like children than over actual policy.
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Governor JB Pritzker continually tap danced around the need to amend the cash bail provisions in the so-called SAFE-T Act during the fall campaign, and many thought he would be more clear on his position once the campaign ended and he secured a second term.
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Negotiated changes to the elimination of cash bail on January 1st went before the Senate Democrat caucus Tuesday, and we’re told the legislation is likely to “sail” out of the chamber.
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Governor JB Pritzker, legislative leaders, unions, and business announced an agreed bill Tuesday to wipe out the remaining $1.4 billion in federal loans used to prop up the state’s unemployment insurance fund during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lawmakers, state’s attorneys, public defenders, and victim’s rights advocates spent hours on Zoom meetings Monday working to finalize a deal to amend the controversial cash bail elimination provision in the much debated SAFE-T Act.
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When the legal deadline for counting late-arriving mail-in ballots passed last Tuesday, Rep. Deanne Mazzochi (R-Elmhurst) trailed Democratic challenger Jenn Ladisch Douglass by 343 votes.
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Governor JB Pritzker never hid his progressive bona fides during his first campaign in 2018.
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Senate Republicans dispatched current Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie (R-Hawthorn Woods) Tuesday, and he may have his to top lieutenant to blame.
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After House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) announced last week he would not remain leader, Rep. Tony McCombie (R-Savana) appeared to have the upper hand to take the reins.
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Rep. Deanne Mazzochi (R-Elmhurst), who trails by 341 votes in her race for re-election against Democrat Jenn Ladisch Douglass, won a victory Tuesday when a DuPage County judge ruled the County Clerk couldn’t verify signatures on mail-in ballots using their 2022 ballot application.
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The House and Senate gavel in this afternoon for the first day of the fall veto session, but don’t expect action on any major issues today.
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Illinois Republican candidates aren’t winning.
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It appears Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie (R-Hawthorn Woods) is out.
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