WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Jan. 5, 2024
Five Illinois voters filed a formal objection to Donald Trump’s name appearing on the state’s ballot.
Three hundred eighteen new state laws are now active and there’s a slew of new laws you may have missed — like an e-cigarette ban in indoor public spaces. Madigan’s corruption trial is punted to October. And an undercount of people living in group quarters on the 2020 Census might mean Illinois isn’t losing population after all.
Reset breaks down those stories and more with a panel of journalists.
GUEST: Alex Nitkin, reporter with the Illinois Answers Project for the Better Government Association
Quinn Myers, Block Club Chicago reporter covering Wicker Park, West Town & Bucktown
Sarah Karp, WBEZ education reporter
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WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: Jan. 5, 2024
Five Illinois voters filed a formal objection to Donald Trump’s name appearing on the state’s ballot.
Three hundred eighteen new state laws are now active and there’s a slew of new laws you may have missed — like an e-cigarette ban in indoor public spaces. Madigan’s corruption trial is punted to October. And an undercount of people living in group quarters on the 2020 Census might mean Illinois isn’t losing population after all.
Reset breaks down those stories and more with a panel of journalists.
GUEST: Alex Nitkin, reporter with the Illinois Answers Project for the Better Government Association
Quinn Myers, Block Club Chicago reporter covering Wicker Park, West Town & Bucktown
Sarah Karp, WBEZ education reporter
More From
Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons