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Illinois gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey resumes calling Chicago a ‘hellhole’ at state fair’s GOP day

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Darren Bailey, who had tempered his criticism of Chicago since winning the Republican nomination for governor, returned to calling the state’s largest city a crime-ridden “hellhole” Thursday in playing to a downstate crowd during the GOP’s annual day at the Illinois State Fair.

Chicago Tribune

Republican Darren Bailey’s state fair strategy shifts focus from Trump, social issues to working families

Bailey — who is actually a millionaire from his family business — routinely portrays himself as the everyman on the campaign trail. “I may be a little bit rough around the edges,” he told the Illinois State Fair crowd Thursday. “But I will work for you, because I’m just like…

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois is failing to provide adequate health care for prisoners

The state committed itself to change by entering into a consent decree in the Lippert vs. Jeffreys class action lawsuit on prison medical care in 2018, but an acceptable plan to provide care has never been submitted to the court.

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker calls on the ‘coalition of the sane’ to defeat ‘the lunatic fringe’ as Democrats rally at state fair

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Democrats looked to both the past and the future as rallying points on their day at the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday, castigating former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s one-term stewardship of the state and warning that the party’s candidate for governor in November, Darren Bailey, would…

Chicago Tribune

Southern abortion rights advocates arrive in Chicago for ‘Black August Freedom Rides’

Activists from Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi traveled to Chicago to strengthen ties with local organizations as abortion bans go into effect in the South.

Chicago Sun-Times

Democrats at Illinois State Fair hit GOP ‘lunatic fringe,’ downplay internal party strife

Gov. J.B. Pritzker, standing alongside new Democratic Party of Illinois Chair Lisa Hernandez and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, downplayed the intraparty tension, especially around Sen. Dick Durbin, who wanted Rep. Robin Kelly to remain in the top party post.

Chicago Sun-Times

New program aims to provide seniors with home-based alternative to nursing facility care

“Here in Illinois, we recognize that our elders thrive when they remain in our communities as they age,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said. “The PACE program is an innovative model that delivers a much-needed alternative to traditional nursing facility care.”

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Immigration advocates sue LexisNexis over personal data

Immigration advocates are accusing the data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions of violating Illinois law by collecting and combining extensive personal information and selling it to third parties including federal immigration authorities

The Independent UK

Ascend Wellness Revenue Increases Sequentially Capitalizing On Adult Use Cannabis Sales In New Jersey

Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: AAWH) (CSE: AAWH.U) released its financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, revealing gross revenue increased 16.2% quarter-over-quarter and increased 20.7% year-over-year, to $117.7 million.

Benzinga

Editorial: Asking other states to help Missouri rape victims should highlight GOP’s cruelty here

It has come to this: Missouri Democrats recently reached out to Illinois and Kansas officials, asking them to secure Medicaid funding for low-income Missouri rape victims who have to travel out of state for abortion services due to Missouri’s extreme new abortion ban. It’s a chilling reminder that Missouri has…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eric Sorensen and Esther Joy King are running for Illinois’ 17th Congressional District on November 8, 2022

Eric Sorensen (D) and Esther Joy King (R) are running in the general election for Illinois’ 17th Congressional District on November 8, 2022. Incumbent Rep. Cheri Bustos (D) is not running for re-election.

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Chicago-based Weigel takes over IHSA football, basketball state finals broadcasts

Weigel Broadcasting announced Monday that it will take over production of the Illinois High School Association’s football and basketball state finals television broadcasts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Six Flags shooting victims were a boy, 17, and a woman, 19, officials say

Gurnee, Illinois, police released new details overnight related to the shooting outside the Six Flags theme park in Gurnee Sunday, which left three people injured, two of them suffering gunshot wounds.

Chicago Tribune

Murals help kick up interest in Route 66 towns

Edwardsville has a historic theater, Collinsville a giant catsup bottle and East St. Louis its jazz, all Americana from the glory days of Route 66.

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Murals help kick up interest in Route 66 towns

Edwardsville has a historic theater, Collinsville a giant catsup bottle and East St. Louis its jazz, all Americana from the glory days of Route 66.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Politicians have failed to deal with gun violence. Give medical officials a chance

The past three months have seen mass shootings of schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas, and July Fourth celebrants in Highland Park, Illinois. Cries for greater gun control to stop such avoidable, premature deaths grow after each event. President Joe Biden recently signed a gun control measure into law, but overall, little…

Chicago Sun-Times

I’m an experienced doctor. Let me practice medicine and provide care for those who need it.

Illinois and the U.S. should remove barriers that make it hard for foreign-trained doctors to practice medicine here.

Chicago Sun-Times

Illinois announces six-year program to invest $34.6 billion in transportation, infrastructure

Much of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s funding for this program is coming from the state’s $45 billion Rebuild Illinois Capital Plan but almost $16 billion more is expected to come in from the federal government.

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Cook County back down to medium COVID-19 risk level, but hospitalizations and deaths high across Illinois

The risk level was downgraded because Cook County’s case rate has fallen below the threshold of 200 cases per 100,000 residents for the last week — but just barely so.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bally’s play for long-awaited Chicago casino now up to state regulators — but hopes to open temporary site next year face long odds

Bally’s has filed its application with the Illinois Gaming Board seeking approval for a $1.7 billion riverfront casino-resort. The city is hoping a temporary casino can open by next summer. But the board has up to a year to review the application, with the possibility of an extension beyond that.

Reason

Federal Judge Holds Illinois Prison System in Contempt for Inadequate Medical Care

A court monitor's report found evidence of neglect and abuse of dementia patients, including signing "do not resuscitate" orders that they could not understand.

USA Today Sports Media Group

This Illinois disc golf tournament has grown into one of the year’s biggest events

It's part tournament, part festival — presenting the largest purse in the history of the sport ($130,000) in 2021.

Chicago Tribune

Climate change is turning air conditioning into a matter of life and death. But government help is lacking

CHICAGO — If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again.

WEKU

Abortion is legal in Illinois. In Wisconsin, it's nearly banned. So clinics teamed up

After Wisconsin left an 1849 near-total abortion ban in place, some providers began commuting to Illinois to treat patients. These Planned Parenthood partnerships could be a model for the future.

Chicago Sun-Times

Pritzker: Bailey owes apology to Holocaust survivors for ‘offensive’ comparison to abortion

Pritzker also called on more Republicans to speak out against the comments. “Why can’t Republicans just stand up and say what Darren Bailey said was wrong?” Pritzker asked. “Why can’t they do that?”

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