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US Steel CEO: We're reopening an idled plant and bringing back 500 jobs due to Trump tariffs
U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt told CNBC on Wednesday his company will reopen a steel plant in the United States due to President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs. "We're really excited to be able to tell our employees in the community in Granite City, Illinois, that we will be calling back 500 employees," Burritt said during an interview with "Squawk Box."
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Groundbreaking medical marijuana case lets little girl go back to school
A little girl is back in school in Schaumburg, Illinois, but only after a federal judge gave her the ok to use her medical marijuana. The case could have extensive ramifications down the road.
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Woman Found Dead In Snow-Covered Car After a Week
Police announced that a woman was found in car, which was covered in snow, a week after she died inside. Authorities are saying they do not suspect any foul play was involved, the Chicago Tribune reported. The woman, who was in her 60s, is thought to have entered the car on the driver’s side, slumped over, and died sometime before the recent snowfall in the area took place on Jan. 14 and 15, police said.
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Illinois Judge Allows 11-Year-Old Girl To Use Medical Marijuana At School
In a decision that may have sweeping effects, a judge has allowed an 11-year-old Illinois girl to use medical marijuana at school. Medical marijuana is legal in Illinois, and it is against current law for students to use it in school or have school nurses administer it. Now, Ashley Surin is the sole exemption. She overcame a leukemia diagnosis at 2 years old with extensive chemotherapy, but some of her treatments eventually led to having semi regular seizures.
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California and Illinois must provide students free feminine hygiene products
More girls will have access to free pads and tampons in 2018, thanks to laws passed in California and Illinois last year. In California, some public schools must provide feminine hygiene products in at least half the bathrooms on campus — and give them out for free. The law covers schools with any combination of classes from grade 6 to grade 12, with at least 40 percent of the student population coming from low-income families.
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Illinois Eliminates Statutes of Limitations on Child Sex Abuse Crimes
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday signed into law a bill that eliminates statutes of limitations for all felony criminal sexual assault and sexual abuse crimes against children. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan initiated the bill sponsored by Sen. Scott Bennett and Rep. Michelle Mussman. Effective immediately, the law applies to future felony child sex crime cases as well as current criminal cases in which the previous statute of limitations has not expired.
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Illinois Patients Use Cannabis Instead of Opioids to Treat Pain, Seizures, and Inflammation
New research published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine suggests that medical cannabis use has led patients to reduce or completely stop their use of prescription drugs. While small, the study is perhaps the first peer-reviewed and direct anecdotal bit of research reflecting the experiences of medical cannabis patients in Illinois.
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Rauner vetoes budget in Illinois showdown
The Illinois Senate already voted to override the veto and the House is expected to follow suit this week. Lawmakers say it’s beyond late for more bickering with Illinois having already entered its third fiscal year without a budget. Legislators – including 15 Republicans in the House who broke from the governor – say they want to end a crisis that turned Illinois into a national disgrace, drew the intervention of a federal judge, sent university enrollments plummeting, threatened to close K-12 schools in the fall and resulted in a staggering eight bond rating downgrades.
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Kidnapping suspect spotted at rally for missing student
The crowd of demonstrators who rallied behind Yingying Zhang’s family included hundreds of students, professors and concerned strangers. It also included the man suspected of kidnapping her, officials say. A photo taken by CNN’s Kaylee Hartung at Thursday’s rally shows Brendt Christensen, the man who would later be identified as the suspect, in the upper right corner, the University of Illinois and campus police said.
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Are Illinois taxpayers finally waking up?
Illinois can no longer afford to tax itself out of fiscal holes. By Kristen McQueary.
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Illinois Legislature Passes Asset Forfeiture Reform
State’s attorney urges governor to sign the bill after Reason story shows poor hit hardest by asset forfeiture in Chicago. By C.J. Ciaramella.
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The Covfefe Act Has A Silly Name — But It Addresses A Real Quandary
In an era of unfiltered tweets from the president, Rep. Mike Quigley's bill would require the archiving of the president's social media posts — from official and personal accounts.
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Mom’s Facebook post goes viral after 4-year-old suspended for shell casing
An Illinois mother is speaking out after administrators suspended her son for bringing a shell casing from a fired bullet to preschool. Hunter, 4, had been at the preschool for about a year, she said, and the incident brought him tears. From his perspective, he found something he thought was pretty neat and he took it to school Tuesday to show his friends, his mother, Kristy Jackson, said. She said neither she nor Hunter's father knew that he had found the shell.
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Illinois teacher fired after confronting student about not standing for Pledge
“I believe the Pledge is a sacred thing.” An Illinois teachers’ insistence on a student standing for the Pledge of Allegiance has left him out of a job. Back in September, 15-year-old Shemar Cooper refused to stand for the Pledge at school, WGN reported. His drivers ed teacher, Vince Ziebarth, was reprimanded for chastising him about the choice.
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Suit to restore gun rights to Illinois foster parents allowed to proceed
A federal judge on Tuesday gave the green light to a suit against the state of Illinois’ prohibition on foster parents from possessing functional guns in their homes. U.S. District Judge Colin Stirling Bruce, a 2013 appointment by President Obama, swatted away a motion by the state to dismiss the suit saying the would-be foster parents that brought it raised “sufficient factual allegations” to proceed to a hearing.
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Mayor Bragged About Eliminating Health Care, Plus More #RahmDump Revelations
A consulting firm also advocated for privatizing half (!) of Chicago public housing. by Stephen Gossett.
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Illinois Senator draws fire for racially-charged attack on opponent's family
"I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington." By Alexandra Jaffe and Traci G. Lee.
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Disunion: The ‘Jack of Clubs’ Makes His Move
But the Union Army was a fluid hierarchy, where men of talent and drive could rise quickly — even men who started out on the lowest rung. Take B.B. Hopkins, a teamster for Company G of the Fifth Illinois Cavalry
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What it’s like to be black in Naperville, America
Brian Crooks moved to Naperville when he was in the 5th grade; his parents still reside here. On Saturday, he wrote a Facebook post about his experiences being an African-American living in America that has since gone viral and has elicited hundreds of comments from people around the world, excerpted here.
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Judge: [Chicago] Red-light, speed-cam tickets ‘void’; city violated due process
The judge ruled the city violated the “fundamental principles of justice, equity and good conscience” by denying due process to motorists issued tickets. By Fran Spielman. (Feb. 22)
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