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news-gazette.com | Jim Dey
Champaign County officials are supposed to be moving from the Brookens Administrative Center in southeast Urbana and other locations to a renovated former bank building across the street from the downtown county courthouse. But two officials — one elected, one not — say they won’t go. Champaign County Public Defender Elisabeth Pollock and Auditor George Danos contend changes in the original architectural plans at the newly named Bennett Building make their moves non-starters.
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1 week ago |
news-gazette.com | Jim Dey
Last week’s Illinois Supreme Court decision dismissing a Republican challenge to the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps prompted two common public reactions. Few who paid attention were taken aback when five Democratic justices on the seven-member court — Mary Jane Theis, P. Scott Neville, Joy Cunningham, Mary K. O’Brien and Jane Rochford — rode to the rescue of their fellow party members’ supermajorities in the Illinois House and Senate.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Jim Dey
Apr. 15—For the second time in two years, a Chicago federal judge has struck down a state law concerning abortion because it violates opponents' free speech rights. In a 2023 decision, U.S. Judge Iain Johnston declared a new state law unconstitutional because it sought to silence opponents of the controversial procedure.
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1 week ago |
news-gazette.com | Jim Dey
For the second time in two years, a Chicago federal judge has struck down a state law concerning abortion because it violates opponents’ free speech rights. In a 2023 decision, U.S. Judge Iain Johnston declared a new state law unconstitutional because it sought to silence opponents of the controversial procedure.
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1 week ago |
news-gazette.com | Jim Dey
It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about over the past week:Open up the booksUniversity of Illinois President Timothy Killeen received an interesting letter recently from a congressional committee. U.S. Rep.
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