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News from June 2023

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Firearm Prohibitors and Records Improvement Task Force met May 4

By Kristine Gonzales-Abella | Jun 12, 2023

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Firearm Prohibitors and Records Improvement Task Force met Thursday, May 4

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Durbin Marks 10th Anniversary Of Hadiya Pendleton’s Death, Calls Out Republicans For Attempts To Dismantle Existing Gun Safety Laws

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 12, 2023

In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, marked the 10th anniversary of the death of Chicago teenager Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot and killed outside a park on the South Side when she was only 15 years old.

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Durbin Calls On The Administration To Grant Tps To Recent Venezuelan Migrants

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 12, 2023

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) spoke on the Senate floor urging the Biden Administration to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for recent Venezuelans fleeing dire conditions in their home country.

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Attorney General Raoul: St. Clair County Convicted Sex Offender Ruled Sexually Violent

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 11, 2023

Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced a St. Clair County jury on Wednesday found a registered sex offender is a Sexually Violent Person (SVP).

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Upper threshold of death expectancy exceeds death count in Illinois during week May 27

By Prairie State Wire | Jun 11, 2023

Illinois' death count did not exceed the upper threshold of death expectancy during the week ending May 27, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Duckworth Meets with General Brown, President Biden’s Nominee to be the Next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 11, 2023

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) issued the following statement after meeting with General Charles Q. Brown, Jr., nominee to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Illinois: 133 Hispanic lives lost in week ending May 20

By Prairie State Wire | Jun 11, 2023

There were 133 Hispanic people who died in Illinois in the week ending May 20, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Southern and Central Illinois Laborers' Political League spends the most among Illinois political committees during week ending June 10

By Prairie State Wire | Jun 11, 2023

Twelve Counties Southwestern IL Laborers Dist Council PAC was the biggest spender the week before.

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Who made the biggest political contributions in Illinois during week ending June 10?

By Prairie State Wire | Jun 11, 2023

The top 100 political contributions made during the week ending June 10 found here.

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CDC predicts 319 people in 45-64 age group in Illinois died during week ending May 27

By Prairie State Wire | Jun 11, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 319 people in the 45-64 age group died during the week ending May 27.

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Durbin, Duckworth, Democratic Members Of Illinois Delegation Again Urge Census Bureau To Correct Illinois Undercount In Its Ongoing Population Estimates

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 11, 2023

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), along with the 14 Democratic members of the Illinois delegation, sent a follow-up letter to U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos urging him to account for the estimated undercount of Illinoisans in the 2020 Decennial Census as the Census Bureau prepares to release its annual Population Estimate.

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Durbin, Whitehouse Statement On Harlan Crow’s Continued Refusal To Provide Key Information Regarding Gifts And Travel Given To Justice Thomas

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 11, 2023

On June 6, 2023, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, released the following statement after receiving a letter from a law firm representing Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow refusing to share key information regarding gifts and travel given to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Duckworth Joins Klobuchar, Colleagues in Introducing Bipartisan Bill to Strengthen Aviation Workforce Development

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 10, 2023

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (CST) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation, along with U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Jerry Moran (R-KS), John Thune (R-SD), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) today introduced the Aviation Workforce Development and Recruitment Act.

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Duckworth Discusses Airline Safety and Workforce Development with Air Line Pilots Association Members

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 10, 2023

U.S. Senator and pilot Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (CST) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation— met with Illinois members of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) to discuss aircraft safety, pilot training and development. Duckworth met with ALPA Vice President Captain Wendy Morse, Captain Matt McNally and Captain Gary Connell, highlighting her top priorities ahead of this fiscal year’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization. Photos from today’s meeting are available here.

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Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 10, 2023

Description: Allows Will County to quick-take specified land for road construction within two years of the adoption of this act.

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June 8 sees Congressional Record publish “Cloture Motion (Executive Session)” in the Senate section

By Prairie State Wire | Jun 10, 2023

“Cloture Motion (Executive Session)“ was published in the Senate section on page S2019 on June 8

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Week of May 27: 62 people in 25-44 age group are estimated to have died in Illinois

By Prairie State Wire | Jun 10, 2023

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 62 people in the 25-44 age group died during the week ending May 27.

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Attorney General Raoul Obtains Guilty Plea In Suburban Chicago Vehicular Hijacking Case

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 10, 2023

Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that a Cook County man pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison for using a dating app to lure an individual to his home and subsequently beating and stealing the victim’s car and property.

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Durbin, Hospital Leaders Release Year 4 Report On Chicago HEAL Initiative To Address Gun Violence

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 10, 2023

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today joined hospital leaders and the Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA) to unveil the four-year reportof the Chicago HEAL Initiative.

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Pearson on AR-15s: ‘They are the best firearm for self-defense. They are the best firearm for competitions’

By Prairie State Wire Report | Jun 9, 2023

In the ongoing Harrel/Barnett et al v Raoul et al lawsuits are being heard by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.