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Vote-by-mail, curbside voting expansion passes Illinois House

Measure still needs approval from state Senate

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) — The Illinois House passed a bill Thursday that would make permanent some vote-by-mail and curbside voting expansions that the state adopted ahead of the 2020 presidential election due to the COVID-19 pandemic. House Bill 1871, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Katie Stuart, of Edwardsville, passed 70-41, and takes effect immediately. Under the bill, Illinois can use federal funds distributed to states for election administration through the 2002 Help America Vote Act to create and maintain secure collection sites […]

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Lawmakers have data options for redistricting, experts say

Census delays, early deadlines complicate process in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) – Two national experts on reapportionment and redistricting told an Illinois Senate panel on Wednesday that there are a variety of options at the state’s disposal besides using detailed census data to redraw the state’s congressional and legislative district maps. Ben Williams and Wendy Underhill, both of the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures, briefed the Senate Redistricting Committee about the basics of the redistricting process and what options states have to using census data. Using data other […]

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Illinois House committee moves animal cruelty, expungement bills

All but one bill advanced Tuesday received unanimous support

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) — The Illinois House Judiciary Criminal Committee advanced several bills Tuesday, including measures pertaining to animal cruelty laws, record expungement, and the study of gun violence in Illinois. House Bill 168, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Daniel Didech of Buffalo Grove, would amend the Humane Care for Animals Act to remove domestic pets from the household of persons known to the courts as a danger to animals. Individuals who have been convicted at least twice of aggravated cruelty or […]

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Lawyers to seek enforcement of decades-old DCFS consent decree

Cook County Public Guardian’s office says foster children still in danger

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) – Lawyers who represent children in the state’s foster care system plan to ask a federal judge this week to take enforcement action against the Department of Children and Family Services, claiming the agency is still out of compliance with a nearly 30-year-old consent decree. “This December will mark the 30th anniversary of the consent decree in this case. Yet even after three decades, DCFS remains in woeful violation of most all of its promises to the children […]

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First Latina appointed to represent former Madigan Chicago district

Edward Kodatt, Madigan’s initial appointee, resigned

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) — Former Speaker Michael Madigan chose a second replacement to fill the House seat he vacated last week after he publicly urged his first appointee to step down for “alleged questionable conduct,” the exact details of which remain unclear. Angelica Guerrero Cuellar was nominated by Madigan on Thursday during the brief meeting of the five Democratic committeepersons who represent the Chicago wards and Stickney Township within the 22nd District. Guerrero Cuellar, a 30-year resident of Chicago’s southwest side, is the […]

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Madigan’s handpicked successor Kodatt resigns after serving three days

Reason for resignation remains unclear

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) — Edward Guerra Kodatt, who was appointed Sunday to replace former Speaker Michael Madigan, resigned abruptly Wednesday after Madigan and Chicago Ald. Marty Quinn issued a statement Tuesday night urging Kodatt to step down in light of unspecified “alleged questionable conduct.” Madigan announced Wednesday he would back Angelica Guerrero Cuellar, the candidate who received the second-highest number of votes on Sunday. Kodatt, 26, is listed as a former member of the House of Representatives on the Illinois General Assembly’s website. […]

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Madigan chooses Kodatt as House replacement

Appoints Latino to fill seat representing majority Latino community

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) – Former state Rep. Michael Madigan, 78, handpicked his successor on Sunday when he voted to fill the House seat he resigned from on Thursday, marking the end of his 50-year career in the state General Assembly. Out of 10 candidates, Madigan voted for Edward Guerra Kodatt, a 26-year-old employee of Madigan’s 13th ward organization on the southwest side of Chicago, who is of Ecuadorian descent and bilingual. Vacancies in the 22nd House District are filled by vote of the […]

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Hearings for Macon County sheriff’s race concludes

Written arguments will now settle ongoing legal battle between Brown and Root

DECATUR -- While the courtroom hearings have concluded and the legal battle to determine whether Macon County Sheriff Tony Brown, a Democrat, retains his position or Republican challenger and fellow officer Lt. Jim Root takes over for the remainder of the term is, in some ways, just beginning. Both Brown and Root appeared in a Macon County courtroom on Thursday, Feb. 11 in a final scheduled hearing before Judge Anna M. Benjamin, who was brought in from Champaign County to […]

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Montgomery County CEO visits Nokomis businesses

Local businesses share knowledge with students

NOKOMIS -- Members of the Montgomery County CEO (MCCEO) Class of 2021 split their time visiting two businesses in downtown Nokomis on Wednesday, Feb. 3. One group gathered at Ugly Mugs Coffeehouse, owned by Tim and Ann Brookshire. Points of discussion during the session included various topics of seeing potential in the impossible. The Brookshires purchased the building at 125 W. Main Street “as is” and renovated it into a first-level business, which houses Ugly Mugs as well as an […]

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