Senate Passes Largest Economic Rescue Package In U.S. History
The bill now heads to the House, which will push to pass it by voice vote Friday morning.
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City of Freeport Council Passes Ordinance To Help Local Businesses
City of Freeport Council passed an ordinance to help with the economic impact of the COVID-19
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Deal Reached By US Senate, White House On $2 trillion Coronavirus Rescue Package
The economic rescue package would give direct payments to most Americans, expand unemployment benefits and provide a $367 billion program for small businesses to keep making payroll while workers are forced to stay home.
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It’s Official, Freeport Has No City Manager
The City Council of the City of Freeport, Illinois accepted the resignation of Lowell Crow as the City Manager of the City of Freeport on March 9, 2020.
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Taylor Park Elementary School To Close Forever
After decades of flooding and multiple floods per year more recently, the Freeport School Board has voted to close Taylor Park Elementary School starting next school year.
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The 11-year old VS Springfield, Illinois
Out of a city with one of the highest crime rates in the state of Illinois there is an eleven-year old girl trying to empower residents with the message that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, literally.
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Freeport City Manager Out, Randy Bukas Interim City Manager In
Effective immediately
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Chesney Supports Banning Red Light Cameras
House Bill 322 would ban red light cameras in 45 of the 101 communities in the state and would force those communities to remove their cameras effective January 1, 2021.
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Column: State of Illinois should fix police training funding problem NOW
Chesney says previously this fund did not rely on taxpayers, but rather offenders paying penalties on their crimes or violations. Now, taxpayers are expected to make up this funding. Under many of these new “reforms” society is paying the penalty for crime instead of criminals repaying society for their crimes.
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League of Women Voters of Freeport Hosting “Beyond Suffrage” Presentation Feb. 25
The presentation focuses on the fight for the right to vote and its immediate aftermath, including the founding of the League of Women Voters in 1920 and the Equal Rights Amendment, introduced in Congress in 1923.
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State Rep. Andrew Chesney Welcomes Highland Community College Ag Students to Springfield
The Highland Agriculture Department and other college students used the opportunity to also network with their local officials including a special legislative update in the Capitol from Rep. Chesney.
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Watch Rod Blagojevich LIVE Press Conference Day After Presidential Pardon
Blagoevich was released from custody at the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution.
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Chesney: Illinois should not become Petri Dish for Failed “Soft on Crime” Policies
Catch-and-release-on-steroids, public safety is greatly threatened when there are seemingly no consequences to victimizing one’s neighbors.
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Americans React After Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address
After the State of the Union address viewers called into C-SPAN to voice their opinions and thoughts of Trump’s speech. It might surprise you to hear what they had to say.
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Pritzker Says Illinois, Not Iowa, Should Go First In Primaries
Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker on Friday offered a full-throated case for why his state’s primaries should supplant Iowa’s caucuses as the nation’s first presidential nominating contest, repeatedly emphasizing the importance of electoral diversity in the candidate selection process.
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