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[The following is a paid advertisement.] Frontline nursing home workers were at the Capitol Tuesday, joined by lawmakers and senior advocates, to release findings from a new report on the state of long-term care in Illinois. Despite $15 billion in public funding over the past five years—including hundreds of millions intended to support staffing—1 in 5 nursing [...]

Democratic-led Illinois Supreme Court rejects GOP challenge to legislative maps that kept Democrats in control

The Democrat-led Illinois Supreme Court on Wednesday said Republicans waited too long to contest the 2021 redrawing of legislative districts that has maintained Democratic majorities in the state House and Senate. Republicans had argued the Democratic mapping effort was unconstitutional political gerrymandering that limited voters’ choices. But the court’s five-member Democratic majority said the GOP’s “timing in filing the instant motion shows …

IL Supreme Court ruling against map challenge does Dems’ ‘dirty work,’ GOP says

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Supreme Court did the dirty work for Democrats and are disenfranchising millions of voters, according to statehouse Republicans who challenged legislative maps.

Federal judges hear arguments from NAACP, state officials over new legislative districts

Redrawing the legislative districts, if approved by the court, will require special elections for 15 Mississippi legislative seats this year.

Republicans can't challenge gerrymandered Democratic district maps, IL Sup Ct rules

Illinois Republicans won't get the chance to argue in court that Democrats have unconstitutionally skewed state legislative maps to all but guarantee their party a supermajority in Springfield, after the Illinois Supreme Court ruled they waited too long to challenge the maps.A dissenting Republican justice on the state high court, however, said the Democrat-dominated state high court improperly chose sides by moving on its own to force Republica…