RIVER FOREST, Illinois, Aug. 8 -- Dominican University issued the following news release: Hundreds of participants from more than 40 Catholic institutions of higher learning around the nation joined the Dominican University community for the third iEl Futuro is Here! conference. The three-day conference held Aug. 1-3 on Dominican University's campus encouraged theological conversation and reflection for campus ministers, theological educators and student leaders in the spirit of togetherness.  more

GREENVILLE, Illinois, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- Greenville University issued the following news: * * * Students Drive Scientific Inquiry With Persistence And Perspective * * * When graduate schools and employers in science, technology, engineering, and math seek qualified applicants, GU undergraduates can add formal research experience to their resumes. Seven students spent six weeks this summer participating in four biology, math, and chemistry projects. Mark Nguyen and Phuong Le studied the ef  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following statement on Aug.11, 2023: * * * Attorney General Kwame Raoul today released the following statement in reaction to the Illinois Supreme Court ruling on the Protect Illinois Communities Act. "We are pleased with the court's decision. The Protect Illinois Communities Act is a critical part of a multi-faceted approach to addressing gun violence. We are firmly committed to protecting Illinois residents from   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul issued the following news release on Aug.11, 2023: Attorney General Kwame Raoul today joined a multistate coalition of 20 attorneys general opposing dangerous laws in Kentucky and Tennessee that severely limit transgender youths' access to critical and lifesaving healthcare. The amicus brief supports the blocking of Tennessee and Kentucky senate bills, which restrict medical treatment for transgender minors seeking gender-affi  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Building on a strong team of diverse experts in their fields, Governor JB Pritzker announced the following appointments in his administration Illinois Workforce Innovation Board Jane Flanagan will serve as a Member of the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board./* Before being appointed as Director of the Illinois Department of Labor in 2022, Flanagan previously served as Deputy General Counsel and   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following statement on Aug.11, 2023: * * * Governor JB Pritzker issued the following statement in response to the Illinois Supreme Court ruling upholding the Protect Illinois Communities Act: "I am pleased that the Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Protect Illinois Communities Act. This is a commonsense gun reform law to keep mass-killing machines off of our streets and out of our schools, mall  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Aug.11, 2023: Today, Governor JB Pritzker signed House Bill 1378, which will create the Illinois Graduate and Retain Our Workforce (iGROW) Tech Act to establish a new program that allows students majoring in technology fields to receive tuition grants. The iGROW program will be administered by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) and will be open to students enrolled in associate or bac  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Aug.11, 2023: Governor JB Pritzker today signed legislation which will allow individuals with certain felony convictions the opportunity to apply for non-gaming positions at Illinois casinos, largely in the hospitality industry. The Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) worked cooperatively with UNITE HERE Local 1 and Senate Bill 1462's sponsors Senator Robert Peters and Representative Kam Buckner to draf  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, issued the following news release on Aug.11, 2023: Today, Governor JB Pritzker vetoed the following legislation: Senate Bill 76 - Veto Senate Bill 76 removes the moratorium on new construction of nuclear power plants to allow for the construction of both advanced and traditional large-scale nuclear reactors in Illinois. The bill is vetoed because the vague definitions in the bill, including the overly broad definition of advance  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Illinois Senate Democrats issued the following news on Aug. 11, 2023: To set forth concrete guidelines, supports and collaborations that will transform the way Illinois delivers high quality behavioral and mental health care to children and youth, State Senator Sara Feigenholtz championed the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Act, which was signed into law Friday. "Families of children with behavioral health challenges seeking help have fac  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Illinois Senate Democrats issued the following news on Aug. 11, 2023: With the rise of social media influencing, all someone needs to reach fame now is a cell phone. While traditional child actors are protected by the Child Labor Law, there has been nothing on the books for young social media influencers until now, thanks to State Senator Dave Koehler. "The rise of social media has given children new opportunities to earn a profit," said Koehler (D-Peoria)  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Illinois Senate Democrats issued the following news on Aug. 11, 2023: Thanks to a new law championed by State Senator Robert Martwick, rideshare companies will be subject to the same standard of care as all other transportation companies. "As rideshare companies become an integral part of modern transportation, we must demand the same high standards of care as we do for traditional carriers," said Martwick (D-Chicago). "Holding companies accountable for th  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Illinois Senate Democrats issued the following news on Aug. 11, 2023: A new law spearheaded by State Senator Mike Halpin marks a significant milestone in the expansion of the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. "This will make it easier for students who live in Illinois to go to college in Illinois," said Halpin (D-Rock Island). "We all want to keep more students in-state for college, and this new law will actually do something to help." Beginning with the 2019  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Illinois Senate Democrats issued the following news on Aug. 11, 2023: State Senator Celina Villanueva championed a newly signed law to allow gender-neutral, multi-occupancy restrooms to be installed in private and public businesses. "Businesses now have the autonomy to decide how to best show up for their communities," said Villanueva (D-Chicago). "The inclusivity of this law not only benefits members of the LBGTQ community, but also those with disabilitie  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Illinois Senate Republicans issued the following news: If a parent has to consent for their child to receive a medical procedure or test, then they should be able to access the resulting records and results. That's the idea behind a new law brought by State Senator Steve McClure (R-Springfield). Under prior Illinois law, parents have access to medical records for children under the age of 12; however, they may be denied access to records and test results for c  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Illinois Senate Republicans issued the following news: Illinois has two new laws on the books designed to lower costs for two potentially life-saving medicines, insulin, and epi-pens, offering a lifeline to people across Illinois with diabetes or serious allergies. House Bill 2189 lowers the current cap on a 30-day supply of insulin from $100 to $35. Insulin is a vital hormone used by the body to regulate blood sugar. For individuals diagnosed with diabetes, a  more

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Illinois State Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, issued the following statement on Aug. 11, 2023: * * * State Senator Sue Rezin (R-Morris) issued the following statement in reaction to Governor Pritzker's decision to veto Senate Bill 76, which would have ended state's moratorium on building advanced, small modular nuclear reactors: "The governor is clearly putting his own partisan political ambitions over what is in the best interest of the people of Illinois by his   more

HARRISONBURG, Virginia, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- James Madison University issued the following news on Aug. 11, 2023: JMU physicist Kevin Giovanetti and students he has mentored were among the contributors to experiments that led to today's announcement of a second groundbreaking particle physics discovery at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Fermilab, the premiere particle physics and accelerator laboratory in the U.S., announced in April 2021 that the Muon g-2 experimen  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson and Johnson issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2023: The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved AKEEGA(TM) (niraparib and abiraterone acetate), the first-and-only dual action tablet combining a PARP inhibitor with abiraterone acetate, given with prednisone, for the treatment of adult patients with deleterious  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The Loyola University Chicago issued the following news release: On July 25, 2023, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument across three separate historic sites in Mississippi and Illinois. The monument will further efforts to ensure that Till's story, and his mother's impact on the civil rights movement, continue to be told and honored. In 1955, Till's abduction and murder in Mississippi shock  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Mayer Brown, a law firm, issued the following news: A Mayer Brown team represented HDL Therapeutics, Inc., a privately held commercial stage biotech company with an FDA-approved cardiovascular therapy for reducing coronary atheroma in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, in its definitive merger agreement with Swiftmerge Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, in a transaction valued at $480 million. The transaction is expected  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- McDermott Will and Emery, a law firm, issued the following news release: McDermott Will & Emery advised Oakley Capital, a leading pan-European private equity investor, on the acquisition of Flemming Dental, Excent, and Artinorway Group in a carve-out from European Dental Group, a leading pan-European oral care and services provider, to form one of the leading dental laboratories groups in Europe. McDermott's European, cross-border team assisted Oakley Capital in a  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- McDermott Will and Emery, a law firm, issued the following news release: International law firm McDermott represented TRuCapsol Holdings LLC on the sale of TRuCapSol LLC, a premier provider of biodegradable encapsulation technologies, to Spray-Tek, a portfolio company of Aurora Capital Partners. TRuCapSol LLC is a microencapsulation company that produces environmentally friendly capsules, utilizing patented processes that decrease waste and improve the effectivene  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: Keyboard Warrior Eric Sorensen, via the latest unsolicited late-night tweet, once again tried to deflect and lecture voters on the border crisis he's helped perpetuate. While Chicago faces a migrant crisis, and federal officials pick up child sex predators who are in Illinois illegally, Sorensen has advocated against strengthening the border and recently voted against securing the border, includin  more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- Northwestern University issued the following story: Kirabo "Bo" Jackson, the Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy (SESP), has been appointed as a member of President Biden's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). The CEA advises the President on economic policy based on data, research and evidence. Jackson's term begins at the end of August. Jackson, a faculty fellow in the Northwe  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * 2D optical waveguides could point way to new technology * * * Directing light from place to the place is the backbone of our modern world. Beneath the oceans and across continents, fiber optic cables carry light that encodes everything from YouTube videos to banking transmissions--all inside strands about the size of a hair. University of Chicago Prof. Jiwoong Park, however, wondered what would  more

JOLIET, Illinois, Aug. 12 -- The University of St. Francis issued the following news: The University of St. Francis (USF) has announced plans for its 2023 "Women in the Church" lecture series as for a closer look at Sr. Thea Bowman, FSPA through the eyes and art of Br. Michael O'Neill McGrath, OSFS. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, October 3, at 7 p.m. in San Damiano Hall, which is located on the third floor of the Motherhouse (520 Plainfield Road in Joliet). The lecture will be preceded  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- William Blair and Co., an investment bank and financial services company, issued the following news on Aug. 11, 2023: After a bruising last few years for the Federal Reserve, and with inflation now on a downward trend and economic growth still only moderately decelerating, the Fed must feel it is close to achieving the ultimate central bank goal of aggressively raising interest rates and quelling inflation, without provoking a recession. However, it is sti  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 12 (TNSres) -- William Blair and Co., an investment bank and financial services company, issued the following news: William Blair initiated research coverage of Hippo Holdings Inc. (HIPO $11.28) and HCI Group, Inc. (HCI $64.18), two technology-forward homeowners insurers. In addition to the initiations, analyst Adam Klauber explored recent developments in the homeowners insurance market in his report, detailing how the market "has been evolving in recent years in respon  more