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'Deeply hurtful': More states make it harder for LGBTQ people to foster or adopt children
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFatma Marouf and Bryn Esplin wanted a big family. The married couple, who both work as professors at...
Righting the past: Rev. L. B. Croom, civil rights activist, dies at 73
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEditor's note: This is the second in a series of historical obituaries rewritten today to honor the...
Gov. J.B. Pritzker stresses education in $49.6 billion budget proposal while blasting a ‘virulent...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGov. J.B. Pritzker stressed additional funding for education in his $49.6 billion budget proposal Wednesday while also using the occasion to blast “a virulent strain of nationalism” that he ...
Pritzker: Hike cabinet pay to 'bring, retain great people'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe idea for raising salaries of top Illinois state government officials, which culminated this...
Families lament, public school advocates celebrate end of controversial scholarship tax credit
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Patti Serpa is a single mother of five who relies on a state-sponsored tax...
Illinois launches service to connect complex abortion cases with needed medical care
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 19-year-old woman traveled from...
World War II Heroes: Baldwinville men killed in England, Belgium and South Pacific
The Gardner News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBALDWINVILLE – As World War II was entering its final year, U.S. military officials had concocted a...
Illinois abortions surged the year Roe fell, with nearly 17,000 patients traveling from other states...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMore than 56,000 abortions were performed in Illinois the year the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe...
With Roe overturned, Illinois — a Midwest refuge for abortion care — prepares for influx of patients...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIllinois’ role as a haven of abortion care in the Midwest was magnified Friday when the U.S. Supreme...
Health Care — Republicans face complicated reality post-Roe
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHeads up drivers in D.C.: A section of a major road into the city will be closed through the morning...