As the legislation awaits a vote in the U.S. Senate, Schneider said additional laws are needed to reduce gun violence from mass shootings to suicides after five people were gunned down at a Colorado Springs nightclub and seven at a Chesapeake, Virginia Walmart in late November.
A new state law going into effect will require smoke alarms installed in Illinois homes after January 1 to have a ten-year sealed battery, officials said.
With women from Wisconsin and beyond coming to Waukegan and Lake County to seek abortions which are illegal in, or may become prohibited in all states surrounding Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wants to welcome them here.
Amid questions at a town hall meeting from residents about inflation, potential nuclear attacks in Ukraine and gun violence, U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Highland Park, received a visit from his Republican opponent Joe Severino of Lake Forest in the Nov. 8 election.