Illinois Legislators React to Charlottesville Violence
Illinois legislators are reacting on Twitter to the violence in Charlottesville and Gov. Bruce Rauner's initial statements.
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Illinois legislators are reacting on Twitter to the violence in Charlottesville and Gov. Bruce Rauner's initial statements.
The Illinois State Senate spent Sunday in session, where Senators voted 38 to 19 to override Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of the new school funding bill.
In response to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, about two hundred people gathered for an anti-fascism rally in downtown Champaign Sunday.
A water treatment plant has operated on North Lincoln Avenue in Urbana since the 1880’s --- but no longer. Illinois-American Water took the plant offline in June. And Monday is the day they plan to start dismantling it.
A man who appeared to be protesting Saturday with a group of self-proclaimed fascists is accused of killing a woman and injuring multiple others by driving his car into a crowd of marchers in Charlottesville, Va.