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Illinois EPA seeks recycling data from Illinois counties

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) Director Alec Messina announced...

Durbin and Duckworth announce more than $110 million to improve emergency preparedness

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth today announced more than $110...

Durbin introduces legislation to reduce youth tobacco use

WASHINGTON—U.S Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D- IL) and U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH),...

Policy teams named for criminal justice, health and social services

CHICAGO – The Rauner-Sanguinetti administration today announced its policy experts for criminal...

Gov. Rauner enacts civil asset forfeiture reform

CHICAGO – Gov. Bruce Rauner signed HB303, bipartisan legislation aimed at reforming Illinois’...

Duckworth and Durbin announce $10.8 million in HUD funding

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced that...

Nominations open for Military Economic Development Committee members

CHICAGO – Veterans and individuals with defense industry backgrounds from across the State o...

Illinois Department of Insurance releases health care rate filings for 2018

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Insurance (DOI) has submitted to the Centers for Medicare...

Duckworth and Durbin introduce legislation to protect children from lead

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tim Scott (R-SC), Bob Menendez (D-NJ) Todd Young...

Duckworth and Durbin announce more than $7.2 million for community health centers across Illinois

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today announced that...

Duckworth statement in opposition to Graham-Cassidy-Heller healthcare plan

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) released the following statement on the...

Duckworth calls on Congress to help stop child sex trafficking

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After meeting with the mother of slain Chicago child sex trafficking victim...

Rauner enacts civil asset forfeiture reform

CHICAGO – Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed HB303, bipartisan legislation aimed at reforming Illinois’...

Duckworth champions voting rights expansion amid attacks on the right to vote

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) criticized the Trump Administration’s...

Durbin introduces bill to crack down on predatory lending practices

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) were joined by U.S. Representatives...

Howard Keskitalo made a Knight in the French Legion of Honor

BATAVIA - The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs (IDVA) today announced that Mr. Howard...

Rauner expands registered nursing practice authority

DOWNERS GROVE – Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed HB 313, which will grant greater authority t...

Governor Rauner announces SBA assistance approved for Stephenson County for July floods

SPRINGFIELD – Governor Bruce Rauner today announced the U.S. Small Business Administration...

Durbin: Latest Republican bill to repeal health care creates problems instead of solving them

WASHINGTON — In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL)...

Senate passes several Duckworth amendments to help small businesses, make government more efficient

WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate tonight overwhelmingly passed four proposals authored by combat...

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