Illinois Progressive Caucus supports reform bills on criminal justice, homelessness
SPRINGFIELD — Members of a liberal House caucus announced their first set of bill endorsements Thursday, including measures targeting potential immigrant detention centers and homelessness.
The Illinois Progressive Caucus, formed about a month ago, is supporting 10 measures so far this session, with another such announcement to come later this session, co-chair Rep. Will Guzzardi, a Chicago Democrat, said.
Those measures “demonstrate the values” the group’s 18 members hold as tenets of their caucus.
“We all, as a group, stand for basic rights and protections and basic decency and quality of life for all Illinoisans,” Guzzardi said, “to make sure that everyone has access to good education and good health care, and that our criminal justice system is truly fair, and that we treat everyone with decency and respect.”
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