Waukegan | As non-essential businesses remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Planned Parenthood opened a new clinic in northern Illinois. The clinic is the organization’s 19th in Illinois and, like its predecessor in Fairview Heights, was built in secret. The Waukegan Health Center is located within a 1.5-mile radius of both a middle and […]
Pritzker, Lightfoot object to president’s call to reopen churches
Illinois | Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot responded negatively to President Donald Trump’s call for state governors to reopen houses of worship this Memorial Day weekend, May 23-24. President Trump identified houses of worship — churches, synagogues, and mosques — as essential at an early afternoon White House press conference Friday, […]
Chicago mayor fines churches for reopening early
Chicago | Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot threatened to fine the three churches that reopened May 17 violating Governor JB Pritzker’s stay-at-home executive order. She followed through with it by issuing citations and fining the churches $500 each on Wednesday, May 20. The churches, none of which are Southern Baptist, are Elim Romanian Pentecostal Church, Metro […]
Gov. pulls new emergency rule, legislature will take up effort
Springfield, IL | Governor JB Pritzker pulled the May 15 emergency rule he issued via executive order from review by the Joint Commission on Administrative Rules (JCAR) prior to the committee’s going into session May 20. The emergency rule would have made it a level 1 misdemeanor for a business to reopen early and violate […]
Pritzker seeks to extends emergency powers 150 days
A legislative committee meeting Wednesday will decide whether Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker can extend his authority to shut down non-essential businesses—including churches—for an additional 150 days. Late in the day Friday, May 15, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a new emergency rule by executive order allowing him to continue the forced closure of non-essential […]
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