Andrew Sullender

The proposed Lead Service Line Replacement Notification Act would require “water utilities statewide to replace all lead service lines and creates a low-income water assistance program to help fund financial assistance and water projects that include lead pipe replacement.”
After hours of hearings this week in which legislators were told to reverse course on maps released a week ago, Democrats released a redistricting redo that they said reflects “testimony provided the last couple of days from members of the public’’ as well as “concerns raised by Republicans.”
State Rep. Marcus Evans, the sponsor of the amendment, said it would not change existing Illinois law but “make permanent” the rights workers already have. But state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi, R-Elmhurst, called the language of the amendment “problematic,” saying that the actual meaning of the provision might be left up to the Illinois Supreme Court.
Under the House bill aimed at fixing the state’s troubled cannabis licensing system, 110 new licenses would be awarded through two lotteries “targeted toward Black, Hispanic and other minority residents of disproportionately impacted areas.”
Asked about his 2019 resolution calling on Chicago to break away from the rest of Illinois, Bailey said, “Many times when two people are in a relationship or there’s a marriage and someone’s not happy, someone finally says I’m not happy. To me, that’s what that resolution was. It was a warning shot.”
The maps released Friday are just for Illinois House and Senate districts – not the state’s Congressional or state Supreme Court districts. The maps also chart a path for a heated partisan battle, one likely to include lawsuits as legislators work to pass a map.
Responding to questions about his remarks during debate over a sex education bill, Republican state Sen. Darren Bailey said that Democrats such as state Sen. Mike Simmons “like to call you names and spread lies.”
The Senate bill on sex education seeks to standardize the curriculum in Illinois schools, ensuring each grade “has the opportunity to be safe and … have access to age- and developmentally appropriate and medically accurate information,” according to the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago.
“We have two choices here,” House Majority Leader Greg Harris told the Chicago Sun-Times. “We can either vote to support closing loopholes on the wealthiest of corporations that Gov. Pritzker proposed in his budget. If people don’t want to vote for that new revenue, then we’ll have to go to the cuts.”