Illinois U.S. senators take Hegseth, other Trump admin. members to task for group chat
White House national security adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, to the chat.
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White House national security adviser Mike Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, to the chat.
Some Illinois Democrats have invited fired federal workers to President Trump's speech to protest the Trump administration's sweeping cuts to the federal government.
"President Trump's simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous," Gov. JB Pritzker said.
"One of the things that often happen when there is an aircraft mishap is that the people who are the most clueless, like President Trump, immediately blame the pilots," Duckworth said.
Stellantis' Belvidere Assembly Plant, was indefinitely idled at the end of February 2023. More than 1,000 people were put out of work.
Vice President Harris is the first Asian American woman to become a presidential nominee, and now the caucus says it's prepared to put every effort behind Harris for a win.
Just a few blocks away from where the DNC is happening, McCormick Place and the United Center is the only Chinatown in the country that's still growing, and across Illinois, Asian American political representation is growing right along with it.
Dr. Adam Hamawy, a surgeon from New Jersey, was in a hospital Wednesday near the city of Rafah.
Sen. Duckworth is urging the FAA to look into why pilots were unaware the Boeing 737 Max's cockpit door was designed to automatically open during a rapid depressurization.
"The intentional disposal of an embryo, even a non-viable one that could cause a miscarriage if implanted, which is a common practice in IVF, that disposal became a class a felony."
Illinois U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-8th) urges federal lawmakers to pass bipartisan legislation to protect in-vitro fertilization treatment.
"My girls are my everything. I likely would not have ever been able to have them had I not had access to basic reproductive rights that Americans, up until recently, had been depending on for decades."
The issue centers around an anti-ice system on 737 Max engines.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) stopped by a Stellantis parts distribution center in Naperville to offer her backing of the strike. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
They're trying to rally federal support for the Chicago Hub Improvement program.
Some big changes are coming to Union Station. U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin provided an update on modernization plans coming to the train station.
U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin are expected to provide an update on modernization plans coming to the train station.
Duckworth criticized the last study from 2019 – which used fewer passengers than a typical commercial flight and did not include seniors, people with disabilities, or any carry-on luggage.
The ruling preserves access to the drug and reinstates a number of steps by the agency that made it easier to obtain while legal proceedings continue.
The projects should be complete in about five years.
The bill is sponsored by Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth and seeks to address the realities of getting people out of crowded planes.
New federal legislation would ensure that aircraft safety standards would include things like seat size and carry-on luggage when evacuation plans are drawn up.
"Airlines are traveling now with just about every seat filled. You can't just practice evacuating an aircraft that is only 30% full because that's not the way commercial aviation looks today."
A push to fight violence in Chicago has been renewed – with a new bill named after a well-known victim of gun violence named Blair Holt.
