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Among the issues facing lawmakers as they return to Springfield this week: whether to extend a measure that increases minimum prison sentences for repeat gun possession offenders.
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After more than 770 homicides were recorded in Chicago in 2016, then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration pressed Illinois lawmakers to pass a measure that would increase minimum prison sentences for repeat gun possession offenders. The law that legislators ultimately approved took effect in 2018, and was a rare bit of policy common ground for Emanuel and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. But in .