A few hundred people in Springfield for the annual March for Life. It’s the event’s first time outside Chicago as organizers want to take the message straight to lawmakers post-Dobbs #twill
Springfield Bishop @BishopPaprocki speaking. He condemns Gov Pritzker and other Democratic leaders directly for pushing abortion expansions. “We cannot relax our pro-life efforts now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.” #twill
Rep. Bill Hauter joined by a group of Republican lawmakers. An ER physician, he says recent Illinois laws have made abortion unsafe. He also calls out lawmakers pushing bills that would restrict pregnancy resource centers pro-choice advocates are targeting #twill
The March for Life Illinois crowd has grown to over a thousand people now. Groups come from the state’s different dioceses and many came by buses
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Should Chicago get a 3rd cargo-specific airport? A bill by Rep. Will Davis that could be voted on this week attempts to let the long-proposed project take flight🛫 #twill 1/7 thedailyline.com/bill-help-long…
Rep. Will Davis: “I think they’ve quietly said ‘if it’s there, we’ll use it'...they’ll take advantage of the efficiencies involved in landing those freights a little closer to where they’re ultimately going to distribute it from.” 2/7
.@BradTietz from @ChicagolandCmbr said ORD and RFD are meeting the cargo demand already: “We just don’t see a need or the demand for a third airport in Peotone. It really, from our perspective, is a solution in search of a problem. 3/7