While Republican Senator Chapin Rose called out Governor J.B. Pritzker for “defunding the police”, several news outlets noted how Republicans have made defunding efforts.
As the school year progresses, Republican Rep. Brad Halbrook called for Decatur Public Schools to fire all its approximately 200 employees after blaming them for poor testing scores.
Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) is urging his constituents against voting for Andrew Weatherford, who is running for the Macon County Circuit judge post.
Throughout war history, soldiers and bystanders get caught in the mix of conflicts that lead to their incarceration as prisoners of war. As wars grew bloodier, WWII brought protection for POWs.
The Illinois State Board of Education worked with the National Sex Education Standards to provide topics such as gender identity and expression, consent and healthy relationships and interpersonal violence for K-12 education.
At a Legislative Energy Town Hall sponsored by the Illinois Freedom Caucus on Aug. 11, Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) drew attention to what he sees as shortcomings in the Clean Energy Jobs Act.
Rep. Thomas Bennett (R-Pontiac) recently visited Safe Journeys, an organization that helps domestic and sexual violence survivors in LaSalle and Livingston counties.