State Journal-Register
Jun 14, 2019
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Under the Dome Podcast: Pritzker signs abortion rights bill, AFSCME raises
The Illinois legislature has gone home for the summer, but the state government news continues in Springfield.
Medical-marijuana dispensaries, growers are gearing up for recreational sales

Medical-marijuana dispensaries in Springfield and Grandview and cultivation centers in Lincoln and Barry have begun to hire more workers and expand to get ready for legal recreational use.

$122M in capital plan to make state Armory usable again

More than $100 million has been set aside for renovations at the Illinois State Armory in the hopes the historic - yet vacant and deteriorating - building can become useful again.

State workers’ back step pay should be paid by end of September

Unionized state workers who are owed money for step raises they didn't receive during Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration should get the money by the end of September.

As gambling expands, Illinois will study how many addicts it has

Illinois will finally conduct a thorough study of the gambling problem in the state - the first such survey in nearly 30 years.

Proposed state worker contract includes 11.5% in raises over four years

Members of the largest state employee union would receive 11.5 percent pay increases over the next four years if members approve a proposed new contract.

Illinois lurches left in legislative session

After four years of fiscal austerity and the pro-business, anti-union agenda of former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, Illinois lawmakers took a sharp turn to the left.

Pritzker signs abortion protections into law

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Wednesday the Reproductive Health Act, which supporters said will guarantee abortion rights in Illinois should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

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