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Multi-state salmonella outbreak linked to raw chicken

CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is reporting five cases of multi-drug...

Six Champaign-Urbana residents diagnosed with Legionnaires' Disease

CHAMPAIGN – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reports that six Illinois residents...

Mortgage loan originator disciplined by State Regulator

SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (“IDFPR”)...

Durbin, Duckworth press for full disclosure of Trump family business ties to Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), along with Senator...

Jesse White urges student readers to enter "Letters About Literature" competition

SPRINGFIELD - Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White is urging students in grades 4 through...

Durbin calls on Secretary Devos to implement and enforce Obama-era borrower-defense rule

SPRINGFIELD – Upon the Obama-era Borrower Defense rule taking effect, U.S. Senate Democratic Whi...

Durbin presses EPA to limit harmful pollution from meat-processing plants

SPRINGFIELD – Following recent reports by the Environmental Integrity Project and the Chicag...

Durbin issues statement on JBS pork processing plant pollution in Beardstown

SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released the following statement regarding...

Durbin issues statement on his HHS announcement to require disclosure of prescription drug prices in TV ads

SPRINGFIELD – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today applauded the U.S. Department...

Shimkus shares column from Rep. Steve Scalise

This summer, California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters called on her supporters to harass cabinet officials....

Nearly 15,000 AmeriCorps and Senior Corps members honored

SPRINGFIELD – Governor Bruce Rauner is declaring October 17, 2018 National Service Opening Day....

Durbin issues statement on disappearance of Saudi critic, Jamal Khashoggi

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement regardin...

Durbin, Duckworth call for FTC crackdown on big tobacco social media schemes

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined Senator Richard...

Senate passes Durbin, Duckworth resolution honoring Illinois' Bicentennial

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced today that...

IL Department on Aging presents 2018 Senior Hall of Fame

CHICAGO - The Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA) is proud to announce Loyola’s Sister Jean Dolores...

Illinois Department of Public Health releases update on Acute Flaccid Myelitis

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has received information of another...

Durbin, Boozman, Senators press President Trump on decision to continue providing assistance to countries that use child soldiers

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Boozman (R-AR), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Amy...

Durbin, Duckworth call for greater U.S. efforts to protect freedom of speech & combat growing authoritarianism globally

WASHINGTON – Following the disappearance of noted journalist and critic of the Saudi government...

Senate Small Business Committee passes bipartisan Duckworth-Kennedy-Durbin legislation to help strengthen veteran-owned small businesses

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship passed...

Duckworth meets with nominee to head EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) met with the President’s nominee...

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