Rebecca Anzel
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Illinois Senate president pushes flavored nicotine products ban
SPRINGFIELD — Legislation banning retailers from selling flavored nicotine products in Illinois will likely come before lawmakers in mid-November, its sponsor said Tuesday after a preliminary hearing. → Read More
Here's how the vaping industry is challenging a plan to ban flavored products in Illinois.
SPRINGFIELD — Vaping and other industry stakeholders opposing legislation banning flavored products said Thursday the bill would have negative health and economic impacts. → Read More
Illinois health department: State ‘showing progress’ toward goal of reducing opioid deaths
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois is “showing progress” toward the state Department of Public Health’s three-year goal of reducing opioid deaths by one-third by 2020, an official told lawmakers Monday. → Read More
Illinois GOP lawmaker files bill to reinstate death penalty
SPRINGFIELD — A Republican lawmaker has filed legislation to reinstate the death penalty in Illinois, calling it an “effective tool” to dissuade violent crime. → Read More
First of many? McHenry County to serve as test for new township consolidation law
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law giving voters in one Illinois county an option to more easily dissolve township governments. It is an initiative of two state lawmakers → Read More
Illinois family planning clinics may need to return or destroy medication
SPRINGFIELD — Health clinics overseen by Illinois organizations that opted not to receive federal family planning dollars may have to return or destroy contraception and other medication purchased at a → Read More
Dollar-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes advances to Illinois Senate
SPRINGFIELD — A pack of cigarettes will cost an extra dollar in Illinois if the Senate approves a bill passed Saturday by the House. → Read More
Governor expected to sign Illinois abortion legislation
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expected to sign legislation that backers and detractors agree will be the most liberal reproductive health statute in the country. → Read More
Illinois House committee advances abortion bill across party lines in Sunday night meeting
SPRINGFIELD — Legislation that would overhaul Illinois’ abortion statute was fiercely debated for the first time by a panel of lawmakers Sunday, with six days to go before the scheduled → Read More
Gov. Pritzker to sign ‘Tobacco 21’ into law Sunday
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker will sign into law a statewide initiative that raises from 18 to 21 the minimum age to purchase tobacco products. → Read More
Court to decide who pays for water bottle tax incorrectly collected in Chicago
SPRINGFIELD — Who should bear the loss when a retailer charges consumers a tax they were not supposed to pay? → Read More
Anti-abortion law firm says Illinois could become ‘Abortion Capital of America’
SPRINGFIELD — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker vowed to make Illinois “the most progressive state in the nation for access to reproductive health care,” and a conservative anti-abortion law firm based → Read More
Catholic leaders say abortion legislation an affront to religious freedoms
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ Catholic leaders said Thursday proposed legislation pending in the General Assembly greatly expanding reproductive rights in the state treads on their First Amendment right to freedom of → Read More
New Progressive Caucus’ aim: ‘Stability and decency for all Illinoisans’
SPRINGFIELD — A group of House Democrats have formed an official caucus they say will champion a liberal agenda “to provide a better direction” for Illinois. → Read More
Illinois lawmakers soon to turn attention to marijuana
SPRINGFIELD — Attention at the Statehouse is expected to begin focusing on one of Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s top priorities — legalizing recreational marijuana — with the deadline for lawmakers → Read More