SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) A ban on dozens of semiautomatic weapons, a top campaign promise of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, won Illinois House approval early Friday. The House voted 64-43 to outlaw .50-caliber guns and cartridges , not defining the term semiautomatic but listing specific types or brands of 20 pistols and five dozen rifles.
In his run for governor, Bailey has offered himself up as a herald for those he believes have been ignored, forgotten and excluded from a Chicago-driven plan led by Pritzker.
Busloads of migrants from Texas arrived in Chicago Wednesday as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott s ongoing policy to send undocumented immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities.