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Delivering On Promises: Speaker Welch’s First 100 Days (Springfield, IL) - Today marks 100 days since House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch was sworn in to serve as Illinois’ first Black Speaker of the House.

Current mayor and apparent winner of the 2021 Consolidated Election Roger Agpawa was deemed ineligible to hold office today in an Illinois Appellate Court ruling.

The DuPage County Redistricting Committee met earlier this month, where DuPage County District 6 board member James Zay said that, while the statewide remapping effort is more about Senate and House districts than county board districts, he is hesitant to use the American Community Survey (ACS) as suggested.

Anderson: 'FOID cards are a cash grab for the state' - Illinois gun owners are fed up with the delays in receiving their Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card and at least one lawmaker has picked up on that frustration.

After just ten hours of deliberation, a jury found Derek Chauvin guilty on all three counts.

Tinley Park Board Awards Resident for Actions (Tinley Park, IL) - The Village Board on Tuesday honored resident David Sleeper with a Citizens Life-Saving Award for actions he took during a house fire March 4 along Harlem Avenue.

Southland Black Chamber and Governor Pritzker Talk Black Beauty Supply (Markham, IL) - While in Markham, Governor J.B. Pritzker spoke at a press conference highlighting the 4 pillars that the Illinois Black Caucus successfully passed, reforming the following areas of concern: criminal justice, education, health care, and economic equality.

Haas calls for Illinois' redistricting process to be made ‘fair and transparent’ (Kankakee, IL) - Republican lawmakers in the Illinois General Assembly introduced legislation they say will reform the redistricting process and stop those who benefit directly from it from being the ones in charge of the method.

Welch Announces New Task Force to Review Statues on State Grounds (Springfield, IL) - In an effort to ensure that statues and other ceremonial landmarks on state property reflect the values and morals of our state, Speaker of the House Emanuel “Chris” Welch announced the creation of a new special task force to conduct a review of monuments on state property and proposals for new monuments or statues.

Southland’s Behavioral Health Founder, President & CEO Twin D. Green Receives Honorary Doctorate (Flossmoor, IL) - The Link & Option Center is proud to announce that their Founder, President, and CEO, Ms. Twin D. Green, is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Rhema University, Florida for her work in the Community Mental Health field.