![Christian, Do Your Duty: Vote! Christian, Do Your Duty: Vote!](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Christian-Do-Your-Duty-Vote.jpg)
By Rev. Thorin Anderson
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03.15.24
Every American citizen has, among other things, the right and responsibility to vote. If too many fail to take this responsibility seriously, it allows for a few, with bad intentions, to transform the state into an oligarchy or dictatorship!
![Please Submit Witness Slips for These Bills Please Submit Witness Slips for These Bills](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/File-witness-slips_Important-Bills.jpg)
03.11.24
Please take the time to let lawmakers know that voters are watching what they do while they're in session. As you know, there is a small window to be able to submit these witness slips.
![Its Nose in the Tent Its Nose in the Tent](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Its-Nose-in-the-Tent.jpg)
By Thomas Hampson
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03.11.24
The legislative effort to address bullying in Illinois started in 2006 when the Illinois School Code was amended. The act required schools to establish an anti-bullying policy, inform students and parents about it, and keep their updated policies on file with the Illinois State Board of Education.
![Another Opportunity to File Witness Slips! Another Opportunity to File Witness Slips!](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/File-Witness-Slips.jpg)
03.04.24
There has been a flurry of activity at the Capitol in Springfield which will continue until March 22nd before lawmakers break for for Spring Break. We urge you to take a few minutes to file witness slips for a dozen bills that will soon have a hearing.
![Here Come Da Judge! Here Come Da Judge!](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Trump-on-Ballot.png)
By Mark Elfstrand, Cultural Affairs Writer
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03.01.24
The seemingly never ending efforts to keep Donald Trump from regaining a return to his temporary residence at the White House got personal in Illiinois this week. The Chicago Tribune alerted us that Cook County Judge Judge Tracie Porter has ruled that the former president should have his name struck from the March 19 Illinois Republican primary ballot.
![Redefining Child Abuse Redefining Child Abuse](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Redefining-Child-Abuse.jpg)
By Thomas Hampson
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02.28.24
Whenever a legislator proposes a new law, supposedly, that new law is intended to solve some problem. But what problem does the law proposed by Anne Stava-Murray seek to solve in HB 4876? Her bill would expand the definition of child abuse to include a parent or other member of the household who...
![A Christian Response to “Death with Dignity” A Christian Response to “Death with Dignity”](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/A-Christian-Response-to-Death-with-Dignity.jpg)
By Brandon Myers
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02.27.24
The forces of darkness in Illinois want to take the state’s death agenda to the next level. Some deceived politicians have now introduced an assisted suicide—euphemistically referred to as a “Medical Aid in Dying” or “Death with Dignity”—bill in Springfield. A bill sponsored by Illinois Senator Linda Holmes (D-Aurora), SB 3499 creates the “End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act.”
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By David E. Smith
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02.24.24
We are currently taking orders, in any amount, for our 2024 Primary Election Voter Guide. The non-partisan IFI Voter Guide helps voters know more about the positions of candidates who are seeking their vote on March 19, 2024. It will also soon be available online at illinoisfamily.org/2024voterguide.
![Time to File Witness Slips & Make Your Voice Heard Time to File Witness Slips & Make Your Voice Heard](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/File-witness-slips-Bills.jpg)
By Kathy Valente
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02.19.24
Many bills have been filed since the start of this second half of the legislative session. IFI is keeping a close watch on which get assigned to a committee so that you, as an Illinois voter, can make your position known by filing a witness slip.
![“Illinois is Failing Children of Color?” “Illinois is Failing Children of Color?”](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Illinois-is-Failing-Children-of-Color.jpg)
By Kathy Athearn
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01.27.24
A recent news story by Chicago’s WGN9 is titled “Illinois is Failing Children of Color.” It examines “Race for Results” –a report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation which found that children of color face several “inequities” in Illinois.
![Local Focus Local Focus](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Local-Focus.jpg)
By Thomas Hampson
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01.25.24
Why are local elections so uninteresting to voters? Local elections in Illinois generally draw about 16% of registered voters. This is compared to the average turnout over the last 20 years for presidential elections in Illinois of 63% and the average turnout in the off-year elections of 44%.
![Life on the Line Life on the Line](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Life-on-the-Line.jpg)
By Mark Elfstrand, Cultural Affairs Writer
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01.22.24
Perhaps you’ve never heard of Allie Phillips. She is one to keep your eye on. Her story may help determine the fate of babies in Tennessee and elsewhere.
![Chicago May Soon Remove Police From Schools Chicago May Soon Remove Police From Schools](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Chicago-May-Soon-Remove-Police-From-Schools.jpg)
By Ecce Verum
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01.18.24
At the beginning of January, the news began to buzz with the report of Chicago alderman Nicholas Sposato, who told journalists that the city's school system is looking into removing all police officers from high schools.
![Freedom Versus Foolishness Freedom Versus Foolishness](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Freedom-Versus-Foolishness.jpg)
By Mae Arthur
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01.17.24
As of January 1, a new Illinois state law is in effect that removes grant funding from public libraries that ban books “because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.” House Bill 2789 was signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker last summer and is just the latest in a string of policies advanced by this administration and motivated by its apparent obsession with indoctrinating kids into sexual orientation and gender identity ideology.
![Hold a Voter Registration Drive at Your Church! Hold a Voter Registration Drive at Your Church!](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Register-to-Vote.jpg)
By David E. Smith
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01.11.24
The process for registering is easy and convenient, but unfortunately, millions of Americans choose not to take the time. Millions of Americans are not registered to vote. Add to that the fact that Barna Research reports that in the last two presidential elections, voter-turnout among self-professing Christians was only 59 percent in 2012 and 61 percent in 2016.