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	Campus Senate at the University of Illinois at Springfield
		The University of Illinois Statutes, Article II, Section I, provide for a senate to be constituted at each campus of the University, to exercise legislative functions in matters of educational policy, such as requirements for admission to colleges and schools, requirements for degrees and certificates, and the academic calendar.
		Senate governance at the University of Illinois at Springfield consists of the Senate, its various standing committees, and those members of the Campus Senate who serve on the University Senates Conference.
		The Campus Senate is a legislative body composed of sixteen faculty, five students, and one staff, academic professional, and administrator.
	www.uis.edu /campussenate (151 words)

	Illinois Senate Republicans - Home
		State Senator John O. Jones and representatives from AFSCME have called on the Governor to release a much heralded report on staffing levels at Illinois prisons at a press conference in Mt. Vernon.
		Senator Radogno explained that the funds were approved by the Democrat House and Senate, but their purpose was not delineated in the budget nor has it been outlined by the Governor to date.
		Illinois’ new state budget took effect July 1 and this year, for the first time, Illinois will spend more general funds on Medicaid than are spent by the State Board of Education — a shift in priorities that is just one of many reasons why no Republican senators voted for the new budget.
	www.senategop.state.il.us (1054 words)

	Illinois State Senate Democrat Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Senator Maloney took the opportunity to praise public libraries and their role in the educational process: "When discussions take place around the subject of education, I feel that public libraries should be included in that discussion," said Senator Maloney.
		Illinois women may be eligible for free breast and cervical cancer screenings if they do not have health insurance, have limited income ($38,700 annual income for a family of four) and are between the ages of 40 and 64 (for mammograms and breast exams).
		Senate Bill 2349 which deals with the issue of “rescue fraud” requires “distressed property purchasers” to provide homeowners a written contract that lays out all of the terms of the sale and clearly states that the home is actually being sold.
	www.senatedem.state.il.us /senatenews/news.shtml (19660 words)

	Illinois Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the state of Illinois in the United States.
		The Illinois Senate is made of 59 senators elected from individual legislative districts.
		The Illinois Senate convenes at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illinois_Senate (322 words)

	Republican State Senate Campaign Committee - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Senate Republicans are proud to fight for the hard-working taxpayers of the State of Illinois.
		Illinois also needs leaders that will set realistic goals and priorities that will better all citizens, without compromising the future of our state.
		Plainfield, IL - State Senate Candidate Terri Ann Wintermute applauded a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling that could lead to the enforcement of a law that requires parental notification for minors wishing to have an abortion.
	www.ilsenategop.com (1006 words)

	The Senate at the University of Illinois, Champaign - Urbana
		The Senate on the Urbana-Champaign campus is a legislative body comprised of 200 faculty and 50 students.
		Duties of senate committees are specified in the Senate Bylaws.
		Each senate shall also recommend candidates for honorary degrees, and may propose amendments to the Statutes through the University Senates Conference to the President and the Board of Trustees.
	www.senate.uiuc.edu (133 words)

	Illinois Senate Sees Power Shift
		Senator James "Pate" Philip, who has served as the Republican minority leader, is expected to be elected Senate President without opposition.
		Senate Bill 1828 is being pushed by the Illinois Home Builders and Illinois Realtors Associations in order to curtail the ability of local government to utilize the land cash donation ordinance as a tool to offset the impact of new residential/commercial development.
		Park districts throughout Illinois should be vitally interested in this issue as it impacts their ability to provide recreational amenities in the communities they serve.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1992/ip921110.html (604 words)

	Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama's got green cred \| By Amanda Griscom \| Grist \| Muckraker \| 04 Aug 2004
		After getting a law degree from Harvard, Obama became a civil-rights lawyer and then in 1996 was elected to the Illinois state senate, representing the 13th district on Chicago's South Side, where he distinguished himself as a leader on environmental and public-health issues.
		As state senator, he is cosponsoring a pending measure that would require 10 percent of the electricity generated in the state to come from renewable sources by 2012, and he supports another pending bill that would tighten energy-efficiency codes in residential and commercial buildings.
		"Illinois is a state that has no limits on campaign financing, meaning the special interests are well entrenched." But Obama has never capitulated, said Darin, and for most of his time in the state senate, he has been in the minority, arguing against the political grain with surprising success.
	www.grist.org /news/muck/2004/08/04/griscom-obama (1290 words)

	Illinois Senate Will Vote on Human Cloning for Stem Cell Research Bill
		The Illinois state legislature is headed back to town for a two week lame-duck session prior to the start of the next legislative session in January.
		If the state Senate fails to approve the legislation, lawmakers must start over during the next legislative session and take a bill back through the committee process and the state House.
		The Illinois Catholic Conference says it is conducting an all-out effort to defeat the legislation and plans Sunday bulletin inserts this weekend educating parishioners on the bill.
	www.lifenews.com /bio559.html (440 words)

	Illinois Student Senate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When a decision must be made on behalf of the Illinois Student Senate before its next meeting, the executive officers may, by a three-fourths (3/4) vote, act on behalf of the organization in all matters that require a full majority vote.
		The role of the committee is to pre-review all issues of allocation of Student Senate funds and to present in line-item form, all proposed budgetary allocations.
		No referendum may be brought for a vote by the student body unless it is initiated by a 2/3 vote of the Student Senate with the signed support from five percent of the student body, or by student initiated referenda with signed support from seven percent of the student body.
	www.iss.uiuc.edu /amendment.asp (2651 words)

	Illinois senate race, Version 2.0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Senators were presumed to be chosen for their abilities by a more stable and better informed body than the electorate, the state's legislature.
		What kind of Senators you would appoint was a campaign issue for people running for the legislature, and it made the Senate representation an extension of the state government.
		If legislators elect Senators, however, it's much more likely that the legislators in states where such a law is desired would impose the law themselves and not pressure their Senator to do so.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1189337/posts (5273 words)

	Illinois Senate Race news
		Illinois voters would be hard-pressed to get a clearer choice, both in terms of substance and style, in the race to succeed retiring Republican Peter Fitzgerald in the U.S. Senate.
		Republican Illinois Senate candidate Alan Keyes said Thursday that he would stanch the flow of medical specialists from the state by capping jury awards for pain and suffering in medical malpractice cases.
		Illinois Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes warned Black Hawk College students Wednesday that their children will not grow up in freedom if current problems are not corrected in the federal government.
	www.renewamerica.us /news/040803illinois.htm (7034 words)

	The heat is on by John Patterson - Illinois Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She adds that keeping a Republican majority in the Senate is crucial to providing political balance in a year of great Democratic opportunity.
		All 59 Senate seats are on the ballot this November.
		In southeastern Illinois, the 54th District race between state Sen. William O’Daniel, a Mount Vernon Democrat, and state Rep. John Jones, a Mount Vernon Republican, is downstate’s version of the Parker-Garrett contest.
	illinoisissues.uis.edu /features/2002sept/senate.html (3477 words)

	The new face of the Democratic Party -- and America - Salon
		He is hoping to win the seat being vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald, whose quixotic maneuvers in the Senate left him bereft of support at the end of one term.
		He has gone from someone impatient with the legislative process to an effective and respected leader in the Illinois Senate, and from a candidate who once seemed to be getting ahead of himself politically, and whose base in the fl community was shaky, to a figure who appeals to voters of all hues.
		More than twice as many Democrats as Republicans voted in the primary elections on March 16, even though the Republicans ran a seven-person race for the Senate nomination that was highlighted by a barrage of TV advertising as a group of multimillionaires squared off against one another.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2004/03/30/obama/index.html (1526 words)

	Catholic wins: the Illinois Senate race Commonweal - Find Articles
		For the first time in its history, the state of Illinois is going to elect a Catholic to the United States Senate.
		The Illinois senate race is a textbook model of those tensions and divides.
		Salvi was elected twice to the Illinois House, but he was a virtual unknown before theft spring primaries.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n17_v123/ai_18783813 (815 words)

	Illinois State Senate Democrat Homepage
		Illinois schools currently have unfunded construction needs totaling an estimated $6 billion.
		We must work to find a solution to the high cost of medical malpractice insurance so physicians do not have to stop providing the healthcare that is so needed across this state.
		This legislation creates a new Illinois lottery game of which the proceeds would be dedicated to breast cancer research, early detection efforts, prevention, screening and treatment, including clinical trials.
	www.senatedem.state.il.us (318 words)

	Illinois State Senate
		During his two terms as Senator, Washington sponsored a number of bills, including an appropriation to save Provident Hospital in Chicago, currency exchange reforms, small business "set aside" acts, branch banking legislation, acts establishing the Fair Employment Practices Commission and the Civil Rights Study Commission.
		He served as vice-chairman of the Senate Judiciary II Committee, and as chairman of the Legislative Reference Bureau and the Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Corrections Committee.
		He also was a member of the Senate Rules Committee, the Joint Committee on Long-Term State Debt, the Joint House and Senate Committee to Study the Public Air Code (HB3449), and the Legislative Advisory Committee on Public Aid.
	www.chipublib.org /001hwlc/hwac/illstatesen.html (431 words)

	Illinois State Senate, District 37
		While assisted living is not expected to take the place of traditional nursing homes, it fills a critical need for seniors who no longer want to live on their own, but who do not need 24 hour nursing care.
		In most metropolitan areas of Illinois, the assisted living industry is flourishing.
		Simultaneously, some of the state’s strongest borrower protection laws, such as the ban on prepayment penalties and caps on fees, are under attack by the banking industry.
	www.aarp.org /vg2002/il/il_illinois_state_senate_district_37.html (863 words)

	Barack Obama - Illinois Senate Race - Candidate Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard Law School, Obama earned the honor of being the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and was a member of the Executive Board of the Black Law Students Association.
		Senator Obama is an attorney with the firm Miner, Barnhill and Galland.
		In Obama's State Senate race of the $146,545 in donations of at least $200 Obama raised in Chicago, nearly 40 percent came from city ZIP codes that were at least 70 percent white in 1990, according to the census.
	www.ilsenate.com /candidate.asp?ID=17 (348 words)

	Alan Keyes for Senate 2004 :: Official campaign website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Keyes was responding to the recent controversy surrounding a California teacher's use of the Declaration in his American history class.
		Illinois Senatorial candidate Alan Keyes is a stick of dynamite in the political world.
		After all Keyes, 54, was a successful radio personality and writer and the task of jumping in a Senate race with less than three months to go until the election was a daunting one.
	www.keyesforsenate.com (2995 words)

	Illinois Senate candidate compared to Moseley Braun=The Hill.com= (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The growing consensus among many Democrats and Republicans in Illinois and Washington is that Obama will pick up as much as 80 to 90 percent of the fl vote and stands to win large pockets of liberal support in the Chicago area, Champaign and the Quad Cities.
		As one Democratic congressional aide well versed in Illinois politics put it: “There are distinct parallels, with Blair Hull being Al Hofeld and Dan Hynes being Dixon and Obama being Carol.
		Illinois congressional Democrats who are backing Obama — Jesse Jackson Jr., Danny Davis and Lane Evans — cite his intelligence and experience representing Hyde Park in Springfield.
	www.thehill.com /campaign/073003_obama.aspx (1040 words)

	Farm Sanctuary - Campaigns Index Page
		The Illinois Senate unanimously passed SB 413 (53 to 0) in 2005!
		The bill was referred to a Study Committee in the Illinois House, but did not come up for a vote in the House before the legislative session ended.
		Illinois citizens are again encouraged to contact their state representative to urge him or her to support SB 413.
	www.farmsanctuary.org /campaign/state_ILfg.htm (368 words)

	ActBlue — Deeper Shade of Blue in the Illinois Senate
		The pundits say that Illinois is a blue state, but things are not always what they seem.
		In the Illinois Senate, the Democrats hold a slim majority over the Republicans, but the Republicans in the Illinois Senate are constantly blocking much needed funding and programs for Illinois.
		Help the Illinois Senate Democrats to gain seats this cycle to move the agenda of the poeple of Illinois forward.
	www.actblue.com /page/ilsenate (99 words)

	Gayapolis News - Illinois Senate Passes Gay Rights Bill
		The Illinois State Senate has passed a bill that would add sexual orientation to the list of areas protected from discrimination in housing and employment.
		The vote by the Senate is a first in Illinois, where the proposed legislation has failed in the traditionally more conservative Senate after passing in the House.
		Conservatives in the Senate warned that passing the civil rights legislation would open the door to same-sex marraige.
	www.gayapolis.com /news/artdisplay.php?artid=490 (340 words)

	State of Illinois - Government Section
		The Illinois General Assembly, composed of a 59-member Senate and a 118-member House of Representatives, is responsible for enacting, amending, or repealing laws, passing resolutions, adopting appropriation bills, and conducting inquiries on proposed legislation.
		The current Senate President is Emil Jones, Jr.
		Senator Frank C. Watson (R-51st District), is the present Senate Minority Leader.
	www.illinois.gov /government/gov_legislature.cfm (327 words)

	AllPolitics - Illinois Senate Race - Nov. 5
		Republican officials, fresh from their sweeping national victory that gave them control of Congress, began viewing the unexpected open seat in Illinois as a building block toward a "filibuster-proof," 60-seat Senate majority.
		Salvi's staunch views against abortion and gun control were unusual for a statewide candidate in Illinois, which almost always supports social moderates of both parties.
		Democrats and their organized labor allies were also working hard to boost voter turnout in an attempt to break Republican control of the state legislature.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9611/05/senate/il/index.html (705 words)

	FOXNews.com - Obama Wins Illinois Senate Race - You Decide 2004
		Obama enters the Senate already boasting a national reputation and a list of politicians grateful for his help.
		The 43-year-old liberal state senator from Chicago catapulted to political prominence with a stirring keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
		But his strong focus on morality and his penchant for controversy strained relations between the conservatives who drafted him and the moderates who predicted it would be hard for him to win in the Democratic-leaning state.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,137408,00.html (836 words)

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