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PI Original
by Ellyn Fortino
4:39pm
Mon Nov 24, 2014

Lame Duck Congress Faces Tight Budget Deadline To Avert Government Shutdown

Federal Government

Federal lawmakers are up against a December 11 deadline to pass spending legislation to avert a government shutdown. Progress Illinois previews what's ahead for Congress in the remaining days of the lame duck session, including a possible budget showdown over President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.

Quick Hit
by Ashlee Rezin
3:44pm
Mon Nov 24, 2014

Durbin On Immigration Reform Executive Orders: 'History Is Being Made' (VIDEO)

Immigration reform supporters gathered for a viewing party of President Barack Obama's executive order speech on Friday in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

"We're not a nation that kicks out strivers and dreamers who want to earn their piece of the American dream," Obama said during his speech at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas. "We didn't raise the Statute of Liberty with her back to the world, we did it with her light shining."

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), a staunch proponent of immigration reform and one of about two dozen attendees at the Casa Michoacan viewing party, said "history is being made."

PI Original
by Ellyn Fortino
5:19pm
Thu Nov 6, 2014

GOP-Controlled Senate Spells Bad News For The Environment, Some Say

Election 2014

Progress Illinois takes a look at what the pending GOP majority in Congress could mean for climate action and other environmental issues.

PI Original
by Ellyn Fortino
5:12pm
Thu Sep 25, 2014

Illinois College Dems Call Rodney Davis Out For Ryan Budget Votes

Election 2014

While U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI,1) was in Bloomington Wednesday to campaign for U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL,13), college students and critics of the Illinois Republican took to Twitter to blast Davis for supporting the conservative Ryan budget.

Quick Hit
by Anthony Burke Boylan
6:07pm
Tue Aug 26, 2014

Chicago Immigration Reform Advocates Press Local ICE Director For Action On Pending Deportation Cases

Josefa Gonzalez and her two children felt secure when her partner, Wilson Gomez-Pu, was working full time and supporting the family.

But that all changed when Gomez-Pu has was placed in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. He has been facing possible deportation for the last year on a nearly 14-year-old order despite having no history of violent crime. And now his family, including children Wilson, 11 and Dalilah, 7, are threatened with eviction.

It was for his case and many others like it that dozens of protesters rallied in front of the ICE field office, 101 W. Congress Parkway, Monday as immigration reform advocates met with local director Ricardo Wong. They asked for a speedy resolution for pending cases, a release for Gomez-Pu and other detainees, and additional reforms.

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