SPRINGFIELD — State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch collected a very powerful reinforce in his bid to be the following speaker of the Illinois House on Tuesday, selecting up backing from the Latinx Caucus and seeing two of his competitors go out the race. And in a vote overdue Tuesday, 50 House Democrats voted for Welch for speaker, and 15 voted for downstate state Rep. Jay Hoffman, assets instructed the Chicago Sun-Times. Another 18 voted provide. Sixty votes are had to develop into speaker. The reinforce from Hispanic legislators comes an afternoon after the Black Caucus selected the Hillside Democrat as its candidate, assets instructed the Chicago Sun-Times. Three assets — one in every of them throughout the House Latinx Caucus
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Illinois-Duke: Illini rep Big Ten vs. ACC
OK, so it seems Duke has been beautiful first rate over time within the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. How does 19-2 general sound? How about 9-Zero at Cameron Indoor Stadium? Yeah, smartly, a lot of good fortune to whoever will get the Blue Devils this yr. Uh-oh — that might be Illinois. The maximum promising Illini workforce since early on within the Bruce Weber years will discuss with Durham, North Carolina, on Tuesday and take a look at to be one thing greater than a sacrificial lamb. Actually, that’s promoting the Illini quick. Brad Underwood’s top-10 workforce is just right sufficient to overcome anyone. But Ayo Dosunmu couldn’t purchase a bucket, Kofi Cockburn couldn’t keep out of foul bother and now
Will Congress act after El Paso, Dayton massacres? Rep.
WASHINGTON — How fortunate for Congressional Republicans that the newest taking pictures massacres — 34 killed in El Paso, Dayton and the Garlic Festival in California with extra wounded — occurred whereas lawmakers are on summer time break, so they're spared the pretense of strolling by the Capitol pretending they're actually making an attempt to do one thing about curbing gun violence. The massive blocker is Kentucky Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The Democratic House has despatched gun payments to the Senate that McConnell refuses to contemplate. An exception to Republican congressional intransigence is Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who represents a district outdoors of Chicago and is without doubt one of the, to this