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NBC: Illinois Democrats set to OK new legislative maps over criticism
Illinois Democrats on Tuesday are expected to approve new legislative boundaries over objections from Republicans and some community groups that the process was unnecessarily rushed and maps drawn behind closed doors to keep Democrats in power.
Tuesday’s vote is a do-over of maps that majority Democrats approved and Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed earlier this year. Those maps prompted lawsuits from top Illinois Republicans and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a Latino civil rights organization, who argued they were flawed and unconstitutional because they were based on population estimates from the American Community Survey rather than the 2020 census.
Reuters: Illinois could vote Tuesday on bill that aims to save nuclear plants
The Illinois legislature is edging closer to a vote as soon as Tuesday on a bill that aims to prevent two nuclear power plants from shutting, as the owner moves to close one next month unless the state acts.
The legislature could vote in a special session on a new version of a wide-ranging energy bill introduced Monday that allows nuclear plants to earn carbon mitigation credits for generating virtually emissions-free power. The session is on legislative mapping, but could include the energy bill vote.
WAND: IL Supreme Court extends eviction order to Sept. 18
The Illinois Supreme Court announced a temporary stay on certain residential eviction trials and dispositive motions has been extended to Sept. 18.
This decision marks an amendment to Order M.R. 3037. The previous order was going to end on Sept. 1.
WGN: Judge reverses ruling to strip unvaccinated Illinois mother of rights to see son
An Illinois judge barred and later nullified his decision to stop a divorced mother from seeing her 11-year-old son because she wasn’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
Rebecca Firlit’s lawyer said the judge, not Firlit’s ex-husband, raised the issue during a recent child support hearing. They have been divorced for seven years and share custody of the boy, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday, in what was called one of the first such rulings of its kind.