Alex Degman
Statehouse ReporterAlex Degman is a Statehouse reporter with WBEZ. He can be reached at adegman@wbez.org.
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The community of Highland Park will hold a ceremony and community walk in honor of the seven people killed last year during a shooting at a July Fourth parade.
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Nancy Rotering plans to continue her anti-gun activism, noting the ongoing gun threat is "pervasive" and "harming us as a society." -
Gov. JB Pritzker signed a measure that will withhold state funds from libraries that ban books. The move sparked a lot of questions. -
In Illinois, there's now a ban on banning books. Schools or libraries that do so could end up losing state funds.
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Citing a “vitriolic strain of white nationalism,” Gov. JB Pritzker signed the measure withholding state grant money from libraries if they ban books. -
It took more than a week longer than expected, but Illinois lawmakers wrapped up their spring legislative session early Saturday with a budget and hundreds of measures that passed. The spending plan and bills now go to Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker. -
A legislative proposal to help the Bears pay for a new stadium and entertainment complex in Arlington Heights got its first hearing, but final action is still a ways away. -
The Community News Brief is harnessing the journalism expertise still in Macomb to fill a local news void. -
The longtime Chicago Democrat called her removal “petty,” noting no one filed a complaint against her. -
Illinois’ House speaker, an ally to organized labor, faces a push from his own employees to unionizeEmployees have formed the Illinois Legislative Staff Association, but Speaker Welch won’t voluntarily recognize them.
