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Highlight Politics: Welch Defends Ending Money Bail; Pritzker Threatens to Sue Conservative PAC
On this week’s version of Spotlight Politics:
Illinois Home Speaker Chris Welch makes a spirited protection of the SAFE-T Act and the top of money bail.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot seeks proposals for a residential makeover of the LaSalle Road Hall as many downtown workplaces stay vacant.
The Illinois Supreme Court docket sides with town of Chicago and guidelines that it doesn’t should reveal the contents of practically 50 years of police misconduct recordsdata.
And Gov. J.B. Pritzker threatens to sue a conservative political motion committee over a marketing campaign advert he claims is “false and defamatory.”
Our politics crew of Amanda Vinicky, Paris Schutz and Heather Cherone takes on these tales and extra.