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J. B. Pritzker, the Glossary

Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker (born January 19, 1965) is an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and attorney, serving since 2019 as the 43rd governor of Illinois.^[1]

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Abner Mikva

Abner Joseph Mikva (January 21, 1926 – July 4, 2016) was an American politician, federal judge, and legal scholar. J. B. Pritzker and Abner Mikva are American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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Abortion-rights movements

Abortion-rights movements are movements that advocate for legal access to induced abortion services, including elective abortion.

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Abram Nicholas Pritzker (January 6, 1896 – February 8, 1986) was an American businessman and member of the Pritzker family. J. B. Pritzker and Abram Nicholas Pritzker are American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent and Pritzker family.

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AFL-CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

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Alan J. Dixon

Alan John Dixon (July 7, 1927 – July 6, 2014) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served in the Illinois General Assembly from 1951 to 1971, as the Illinois treasurer from 1971 to 1977, as the Illinois secretary of state from 1977 to 1981 and as a U.S. senator from 1981 until 1993. J. B. Pritzker and Alan J. Dixon are Illinois lawyers.

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American Council of Trustees and Alumni

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is an American non-profit organization whose stated mission is to "support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives a philosophically rich, high-quality college education at an affordable price." ACTA primarily encourages trustees to take on a more assertive governing role.

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American Jews

American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Anthony Pritzker

Anthony Nicholas Pritzker (born January 7, 1961) is a member of the Pritzker family and an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune; he is managing partner of the Pritzker Group. J. B. Pritzker and Anthony Pritzker are American billionaires, American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent and Pritzker family.

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Assault weapon

In the United States, assault weapon is a political term applied to different kinds of firearms.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Atherton, California

Atherton is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Bail

Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process.

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Bally's Chicago

Bally's Chicago is a casino and entertainment venue temporarily located in the Medinah Temple Building, and a planned casino resort that will be built on the North Branch of the Chicago River in Chicago.

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Bally's Corporation

Bally's Corporation is an American gambling, betting, and interactive entertainment company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. J. B. Pritzker and Barack Obama are American LGBT rights activists, American gun control activists and Illinois lawyers.

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Better Government Association

The Better Government Association (BGA) is a Chicago-based investigative journalism non-profit organization.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.

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Brandon Johnson

Brandon Johnson (born March 27, 1976) is an American educator and politician who has served as the 57th Mayor of Chicago since 2023.

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Bruce Rauner

Bruce Vincent Rauner (born February 18, 1956) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 42nd governor of Illinois from 2015 to 2019. J. B. Pritzker and Bruce Rauner are philanthropists from Illinois.

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly referred to as the ATF, is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice.

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Cannabis in Illinois

Cannabis is legal in Illinois for both medical and recreational use.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas.

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Chicago Bar Association

Founded in 1874, the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) is a voluntary bar association with over 20,000 members.

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Chicago Jewish News

Chicago Jewish News was a newspaper mainly serving the Jewish population in Chicago.

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Chicago Pride Parade

The Chicago Pride Parade, also colloquially (and formerly) called the Chicago Gay Pride Parade or PRIDE Chicago, is an annual pride parade held on the last Sunday of June in Chicago, Illinois in the United States.

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Chicago River

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).

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Chicago State University

Chicago State University (CSU) is a predominantly black (PBI) public university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is the operator of mass transit in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and some of its suburbs, including the trains of the Chicago "L" and CTA bus service.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce is a non-profit organization promoting business in the Chicago metropolitan area of the United States.

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Christopher G. Kennedy

Christopher George Kennedy (born July 4, 1963) is an American businessman who is the chair of Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Colleen Callahan

Colleen Callahan Burns is an agribusiness news reporter and Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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Commercial Club of Chicago

The Commercial Club of Chicago is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) social welfare organization founded in 1877 with a mission to promote the social and economic vitality of the metropolitan area of Chicago.

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ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational corporation engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and production.

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Cook County, Illinois

Cook County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Illinois and the second-most-populous county in the United States, after Los Angeles County, California.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Crawford County, Illinois

Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Daniel Biss

Daniel Kálmán Biss (born August 27, 1977) is an American mathematician and politician serving as mayor of Evanston, Illinois.

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Darren Bailey

Darren Bailey (born March 17, 1966) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the Illinois Senate for the 55th District and previously a member of the Illinois House of Representatives for the 109th District in Southern Illinois.

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David Harris (Illinois politician)

David C. Harris (born March 26, 1948) an American politician and retired military officer from Illinois who is currently the director the Illinois Department of Revenue.

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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a United States immigration policy.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Dick Durbin

Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997. J. B. Pritzker and Dick Durbin are Illinois lawyers.

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District of Columbia v. Heller

District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 597 U.S. 215 (2022), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion.

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Donald Pritzker

Donald Nicholas Pritzker (October 31, 1932 – May 6, 1972) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. J. B. Pritzker and Donald Pritzker are American billionaires, American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, Businesspeople from Chicago, philanthropists from Illinois and Pritzker family.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. J. B. Pritzker and Donald Trump are American billionaires.

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Duke University

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

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Eastern Illinois University

Eastern Illinois University (EIU) is a public university in Charleston, Illinois.

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Effingham County, Illinois

Effingham County is a county located in the south central part of the U.S. state Illinois.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Erikson Institute

Erikson Institute is a graduate school in child development in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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George Kaiser

George Bruce Kaiser (born July 29, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. J. B. Pritzker and George Kaiser are 21st-century American philanthropists and American billionaires.

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Glenn Poshard

Glendal William Poshard (born October 30, 1945) is an American educator and former politician who served as a Illinois State Senator and U.S. Congressman, serving five terms in Congress from 1989 to 1999.

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Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago)

The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois.

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Goldman Sachs

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company.

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Governor of Illinois

The governor of Illinois is the head of state and head of government of Illinois, and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution.

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Governor of Mississippi

The governor of Mississippi is the head of government of Mississippi and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Governors State University

Governors State University (Governors State, GSU, GovState, or GOVST) is a public university in University Park, Illinois.

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Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871.

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Greg Abbott

Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist serving as the 48th governor of Texas since 2015.

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High-capacity magazine

A high-capacity magazine (or large-capacity magazine) is a magazine capable of holding a higher than normal number of ammunition rounds for a particular firearm (i.e. more than in a standard magazine for that firearm).

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.

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History of the Jews in Ukraine

The history of the Jews in Ukraine dates back over a thousand years; Jewish communities have existed in the modern territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus' (late 9th to mid-13th century).

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Howard W. Carroll

Howard W. "Howie" Carroll (July 28, 1942 – October 1, 2021) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the Illinois General Assembly.

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Human trafficking

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation.

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Hyatt

Hyatt Hotels Corporation, commonly known as Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, is an American multinational hospitality company headquartered in the Riverside Plaza area of Chicago that manages and franchises luxury and business hotels, resorts, and vacation properties.

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Illinois Board of Higher Education

The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) is a state government agency that oversees higher education in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act

The Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (Illinois House Bill 1438) is an act legalizing and regulating the production, consumption, and sale of cannabis in Illinois.

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Illinois Department of Agriculture

The Illinois Department of Agriculture is the code department of the Illinois state government that regulates various facets of the agriculture industries of Illinois, oversees Illinois soil and water conservation, supervises the weights and measures of various commodity products, including gasoline, and supervises the Illinois State Fair.

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Illinois Department of Central Management Services

The Illinois Department of Central Management Services (CMS) is a code department of the Illinois state government that is generally responsible for certain state properties, acquisitions, and services.

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Illinois Department of Children and Family Services

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is the code department of the Illinois state government responsible for child protective services.

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Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) is the code department of the Illinois state government that sponsors statewide economic development, with special emphases on increasing minority entrepreneurship, promoting the tourism industry, and recruiting Illinois as a location for business investment and film production.

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Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services

The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS), formerly the Department of Public Aid, is the code department of the Illinois state government that is responsible for providing healthcare coverage for adults and children who qualify for Medicaid, and for providing child support services to help ensure that Illinois children receive financial support from both parents.

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Illinois Department of Human Rights

The Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) is the code department of the Illinois state government that administers the Illinois Human Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination with respect to employment, financial credit, public accommodations and real estate transactions on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual harassment), national origin, ancestry, military status, age (40 and over), order of protection status, marital status, sexual orientation (which includes gender-related identity), unfavorable military discharge and physical and mental disability, and also prohibits sexual harassment in education, discrimination because of citizenship status and arrest record in employment, and discrimination based on familial status in real estate transactions.

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Illinois Department of Human Services

The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) is the department of the Illinois state government responsible for providing a wide variety of safety net services to Illinois residents in poverty, who are facing other economic challenges, or who have any of a variety of disabilities.

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Illinois Department of Labor

The Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) is the code department of the Illinois state government that is responsible for the administration and enforcement of more than 20 labor and safety laws.

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Illinois Department of Natural Resources

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is the code department of the Illinois state government that operates the state parks and state recreation areas, enforces the fishing and game laws of Illinois, regulates Illinois coal mines, operates the Illinois State Museum system, and oversees scientific research into the soil, water, and mineral resources of the state.

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Illinois Department of Public Health

The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is the code department of the Illinois state government that prevents and controls disease and injury, regulates medical practitioners, and promotes sanitation.

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Illinois Department of Revenue

The Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) is the code department of the Illinois state government that collects state taxes, operates the state lottery, oversees the state's casino industry, oversees the state's thoroughbred and harness horse racing industries, and regulates the distribution of alcoholic beverages throughout Illinois, including beer, wine, and liquor.

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Illinois Department of Transportation

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is a state agency in charge of state-maintained public roadways of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs

The Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs (IDVA) is the department of the Illinois state government that assists veterans and their families in navigating the system of federal state and local resources and benefits, provides long-term health care for eligible veterans, and helps veterans address education, mental health, housing, employment, and other challenges.

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Illinois Fair Tax

The Illinois Fair Tax was a proposed amendment to the Illinois state constitution that would have effectively changed the state income tax system from a flat tax to a graduated income tax.

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Illinois General Assembly

The Illinois General Assembly is the legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is a museum located in Skokie, Illinois, near Chicago.

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Illinois State Bar Association

The Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) is among the largest voluntary state bar associations in the United States.

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Illinois State Board of Elections

The State Board of Elections (SBE) is an independent agency of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois State University

Illinois State University (ISU) is a public research university in Normal, Illinois.

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Illinois's 9th congressional district

The 9th congressional district of Illinois covers parts of Cook, Lake, and McHenry counties as of the 2021 redistricting which followed the 2020 census.

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Immigration to the United States

Immigration to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of its history.

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Infrastructure-based development

Infrastructure-based economic development, also called infrastructure-driven development, combines key policy characteristics inherited from the Rooseveltian progressive tradition and neo-Keynesian economics in the United States, France's Gaullist and neo-Colbertist centralized economic planning, Scandinavian social democracy as well as Singaporean and Chinese state capitalism: it holds that a substantial proportion of a nation’s resources must be systematically directed towards long term assets such as transportation, energy and social infrastructure (schools, universities, hospitals) in the name of long term economic efficiency (stimulating growth in economically lagging regions and fostering technological innovation) and social equity (providing free education and affordable healthcare).

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International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Inc. (ICIJ), is an independent global network of 280 investigative journalists and over 140 media organizations spanning more than 100 countries.

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Irving Harris

Irving Brooks Harris (August 4, 1910 – September 25, 2004) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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Israel–Hamas war

An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place in the Gaza Strip and Israel since 7 October 2023.

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Jacobson v. Massachusetts

Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the authority of states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws.

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James Heckman

James Joseph Heckman (born April 19, 1944) is an American economist and Nobel laureate who serves as the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, where he is also a professor at the College, a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group.

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Jan Schakowsky

Janice Schakowsky (née Danoff; born May 26, 1944) is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative from since 1999. J. B. Pritzker and Jan Schakowsky are Jewish American people in Illinois politics.

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Jay Pritzker

Jay Arthur Pritzker (August 26, 1922 – January 23, 1999) was an American entrepreneur, conglomerate organizer, and member of the Pritzker family. J. B. Pritzker and Jay Pritzker are American billionaires, American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, Businesspeople from Chicago, philanthropists from Illinois and Pritzker family.

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Jerry Costello II

Jerry Costello (born February 13, 1969) is the Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

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Jesse White (politician)

Jesse Clark White (born June 23, 1934) is an American educator, politician and former athlete from the State of Illinois.

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John M. Sullivan (politician)

John M. Sullivan (born January 9, 1959) is an American politician and the former Director of the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

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Juliana Stratton

Juliana Stratton (née Wiggins; born September 8, 1965) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 48th lieutenant governor of Illinois since 2019.

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Juris Doctor

A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law (JD) is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law.

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Kamala Harris

Kamala Devi Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States, having held the position since 2021 under President Joe Biden.

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Kay Ivey

Kay Ellen Ivey (born October 15, 1944) is an American politician who is the 54th governor of Alabama, serving since 2017.

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Kennedy Expressway

The John F. Kennedy Expressway is a nearly freeway in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Kenneth C. Griffin

Kenneth Cordele Griffin (born October 15, 1968) is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur and investor. J. B. Pritzker and Kenneth C. Griffin are American billionaires and Businesspeople from Chicago.

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Kwame Raoul

Kwame Raoul (born September 30, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who has been the 42nd Attorney General of Illinois since 2019.

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LGBT rights in the United States

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, with public opinion and jurisprudence changing significantly since the late 1980s.

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Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

The lieutenant governor of Illinois is the second highest executive of the State of Illinois.

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Lincoln Service

The Lincoln Service is a higher-speed rail service operated by Amtrak that runs between Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri.

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Linda Chapa LaVia

Linda Chapa LaVia (born August 16, 1966) is an American politician and was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 83rd District from 2003 until 2019, when she retired to accept an appointment to the cabinet of Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker.

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Liquefied natural gas

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane, C2H6) that has been cooled down to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.

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List of governors of Alabama

The governor of Alabama is the head of government of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Lori Elaine Lightfoot (born August 4, 1962) is an American politician and attorney who was the 56th mayor of Chicago from 2019 until 2023.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Luis Gutiérrez

Luis Vicente Gutiérrez (born December 10, 1953) is an American politician.

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Middle-market company

A middle-market or mid-market company is one that is larger than a small business and smaller than a big business.

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Mike Johnson

James Michael Johnson (born January 30, 1972) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 56th speaker of the United States House of Representatives since October 25, 2023.

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Milton Academy

Milton Academy (informally referred to as Milton) is a co-educational, independent, and college-preparatory boarding and day school in Milton, Massachusetts, educating students in grades K–12.

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Milton, Massachusetts

Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and an affluent suburb of Boston.

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Minimum wage in the United States

In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws.

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Natalie Phelps Finnie

Natalie Phelps Finnie is the Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

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Net neutrality

Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent rates irrespective of content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication (i.e., without price discrimination).

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Ngozi Ezike

Ngozi Ogbunamiri Ezike, an internist and pediatrician, was the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) from January 2019 to March 2022.

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Northeastern Illinois University

Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois.

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Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

The Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the law school of Northwestern University, a private research university.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nuclear power plant

A nuclear power plant (NPP) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor.

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Occidental Petroleum

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.

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Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal

The Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal (OSFM) is the Illinois state government office that oversees local firefighting activities within Illinois.

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Pace (transit)

Pace is the suburban bus and regional paratransit division of the Regional Transportation Authority serving the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Paris Agreement

The Paris Agreement (or Paris Accords, Paris Climate Accords) is an international treaty on climate change that was signed in 2016.

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Pat Quinn (politician)

Patrick Joseph Quinn Jr. (born December 16, 1948) is an American politician who served as the 41st governor of Illinois from 2009 to 2015. J. B. Pritzker and Pat Quinn (politician) are American gun control activists, democratic Party governors of Illinois and Illinois lawyers.

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Peninsula Times Tribune

The Peninsula Times Tribune was a daily newspaper serving Palo Alto, Redwood City, and neighboring cities in the San Francisco Peninsula of California.

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Penny Pritzker

Penny Sue Pritzker (born May 2, 1959) is an American billionaire heiress, businesswoman and civic leader who served as the 38th United States secretary of commerce in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. J. B. Pritzker and Penny Pritzker are 21st-century American philanthropists, American billionaires, American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent, Businesspeople from Chicago, philanthropists from Illinois and Pritzker family.

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Planned Parenthood

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization, p. 18.

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Pol Pot

Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian communist revolutionary, politician and a dictator who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979.

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Politico

Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Presidency of Donald Trump

Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January20, 2017, and ended on January20, 2021.

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Pritzker family

The Pritzker family is an American family engaged in entrepreneurship and philanthropy, and one of the wealthiest families in the United States (staying in the top 10 of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began such listings in 1982). J. B. Pritzker and Pritzker family are American billionaires and American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent.

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ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene Power.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.

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Rahm Emanuel

Rahm Israel Emanuel (born November 29, 1959) is an American politician and diplomat currently serving as United States ambassador to Japan. J. B. Pritzker and Rahm Emanuel are American gun control activists, Jewish American people in Illinois politics and Jews from Illinois.

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Refugees of the Syrian civil war

Refugees of the Syrian civil war are citizens and permanent residents of Syria who have fled the country throughout the Syrian civil war.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Robert Pritzker

Robert Alan Pritzker (June 30, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Pritzker family. J. B. Pritzker and Robert Pritzker are American billionaires, American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent and Pritzker family.

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Rod Blagojevich

Rod Blagojevich (born December 10, 1956), often referred to by his nickname "Blago", is an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009. J. B. Pritzker and Rod Blagojevich are American gun control activists, democratic Party governors of Illinois and Illinois lawyers.

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Sam McCann

William "Sam" McCann Jr. (born November 4, 1969) is an American politician who was a member of the Illinois Senate from 2011 to 2019.

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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right to keep and bear arms.

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A social impact bond (SIB), also known as pay-for-success financing, pay-for-success bond (US), social benefit bond (Australia), pay-for-benefit bond (Australia), social outcomes contract (UK), social impact partnership (Europe), social impact contract (Europe), or simply a social bond, is a form of outcomes-based contracting.

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Southern Illinois University

Southern Illinois University is a system of public universities in the southern region of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.

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Stay-at-home order

A stay-at-home order, safer-at-home order, movement control order – also referred to by loose use of the terms quarantine, isolation, or lockdown – is an order from a government authority that restricts movements of a population as a mass quarantine strategy for suppressing or mitigating an epidemic or pandemic by ordering residents to stay home except for essential tasks or for work in essential businesses.

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In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal government program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people to help them maintain adequate nutrition and health.

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Tammy Duckworth

Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born March 12, 1968) is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois since 2017.

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Tate Reeves

Jonathan Tate Reeves (born June 5, 1974) is an American politician serving since 2020 as the 65th governor of Mississippi.

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Terry Sanford

James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917April 18, 1998) was an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina.

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The Daily Northwestern

The Daily Northwestern is the student newspaper at Northwestern University which is published in print on Mondays and Thursdays and online daily during the academic year.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tobacco 21

Tobacco 21 is a campaign to prevent youth tobacco use in the United States, primarily through laws that raise the minimum legal age to purchase tobacco and nicotine in the United States to 21.

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Tom Daschle

Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is an American politician and lobbyist who represented South Dakota in the United States Senate from 1987 to 2005.

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Tom Lantos

Thomas Peter Lantos (born Tamás Péter Lantos; February 1, 1928 – February 11, 2008) was a Hungarian-born American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008.

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Toni Preckwinkle

Toni Lynn Preckwinkle (née Reed; born March 17, 1947) is an American politician and the current County Board president in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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Ukrainska Pravda

Ukrainska Pravda (lit) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum).

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United States Climate Alliance

The United States Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of states and unincorporated self-governing territories in the United States that are committed to upholding the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change within their borders, by achieving the U.S. goal of reducing greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide equivalent) economy-wide emissions 26–28% from 2005 levels by 2025 and meeting or exceeding the targets of the federal Clean Power Plan.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States order of precedence

The United States order of precedence is an advisory document maintained by the Ceremonials Division of the Office of the Chief of Protocol of the United States which lists the ceremonial order, or relative preeminence, for domestic and foreign government officials (military and civilian) at diplomatic, ceremonial, and social events within the United States and abroad.

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United States Secretary of Commerce

The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Illinois Chicago

The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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University of Illinois Springfield

The University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is a public university in Springfield, Illinois.

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University of Illinois System

The University of Illinois System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Illinois consisting of three universities: University of Illinois Chicago, University of Illinois Springfield, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

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University of South Dakota

The University of South Dakota (USD) is a public research university in Vermillion, South Dakota.

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Uvalde school shooting

The Uvalde school shooting was a mass shooting on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a former student at the school, fatally shot 19 students and 2 teachers, while 17 others were injured.

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Vice President of the United States

The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.

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Vote Smart

Vote Smart, formerly called Project Vote Smart, is an American non-profit, non-partisan research organization that collects and distributes information on candidates for public office in the United States.

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Voter segments in political polling

Voter segments in political polling in the United States consist of all adults, registered voters, and likely voters.

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War on drugs

The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States.

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Watchdog journalism

Watchdog journalism is a form of investigative journalism where journalists, authors or publishers of a news publication fact-check and interview political and public figures to increase accountability in democratic governance systems.

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Western Illinois University

Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university in Macomb, Illinois.

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WIFR-LD

WIFR-LD (channel 23) is a low-power television station in Rockford, Illinois, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus.

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WLS-TV

WLS-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's ABC network outlet.

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WMAQ-TV

WMAQ-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, serving as the market's NBC outlet.

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1871 (company)

1871 is a non-profit digital startup incubator located in the Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois.

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1990 United States Senate election in South Dakota

The 1990 United States Senate election in South Dakota was held on November 6, 1990.

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1994 Illinois gubernatorial election

The 1994 Illinois gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1994.

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2008 Democratic National Convention

The 2008 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party where it adopted its national platform and officially nominated its candidates for president and vice president.

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2008 United States presidential election

The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 2008.

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2016 Democratic National Convention

The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention, held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 25 to 28, 2016.

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2018 Illinois gubernatorial election

The 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 2018, to elect the governor of Illinois, concurrently with the 2018 Illinois general election and other midterm elections.

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2022 Illinois gubernatorial election

The 2022 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Illinois, concurrently with the 2022 Illinois general election.

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2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois

The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois were held on November 8, 2022, to elect the 17 U.S. representatives from Illinois, one from each of the state's 17 congressional districts (reduced from 18 in the redistricting cycle following the 2020 United States census).

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2024 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection

During Joe Biden's re-election campaign for President of the United States in 2024, it was presumed that Vice President Kamala Harris would receive the Democratic Party's nomination for a second term as vice president.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Pritzker

Also known as Governor J. B. Pritzker, Governor Pritzker, J.B. Pritzker, JB Pritzker, Jay R. Pritzker, Jay Robert "J. B." Pritzker, Jay Robert Pritzker, Political positions of J. B. Pritzker, Pritzker Family Foundation.

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