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Illinois General Assembly

Index Illinois General Assembly

The Illinois General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois and comprises the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. [1]

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bicameralism

A bicameral legislature divides the legislators into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses.

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Bloomington, Illinois

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, United States.

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Constitution of Illinois

The Constitution of the State of Illinois is the governing document of the state of Illinois.

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Cumulative voting

Cumulative voting (also accumulation voting, weighted voting or multi-voting) is a multiple-winner voting method intended to promote more proportional representation than winner-take-all elections.

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Cutback Amendment

The Cutback Amendment is an amendment to the Illinois Constitution that abolished multi-member districts in the Illinois House of Representatives and the process of cumulative voting.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Democratic Party of Illinois

The Democratic Party of Illinois is the affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Government of Illinois

The government of Illinois, under the state’s constitution, has three branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.

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Governor of Illinois

The Governor of Illinois is the chief executive of the State of Illinois and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Auditor General

The Illinois Auditor General is a legislative officer provided for by the Constitution of Illinois and appointed by the Illinois General Assembly for a 10-year term.

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Illinois House of Representatives

The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly, the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois Republican Party

The Illinois Republican Party is the state-level affiliate of the Republican Party in Illinois.

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Illinois Secretary of State

The Secretary of State of Illinois is one of the six elected executive state offices of the government of Illinois, and one of the 47 secretaries of states in the United States.

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Illinois Senate

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.

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Illinois State Capitol

The Illinois State Capitol, located in Springfield, Illinois, houses legislative and the executive branches of the government of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Independent Democrat

In U.S. politics an Independent Democrat is an individual who loosely identifies with the ideals of the Democratic Party but chooses not to be a formal member of the party (i.e. chooses to be an independent).

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James Hutchinson Woodworth

James Hutchinson Woodworth (December 4, 1804 – March 26, 1869; buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago), was a former member of the Illinois State Senate and the Illinois State House of Representatives, served as a Chicago Alderman, was elected to consecutive terms as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1848–1850) as an Independent Democrat, and served one term in the US House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party.

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John Cullerton

John J. Cullerton (born October 28, 1948) is an American politician who is currently a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 6th district since his appointment in 1991.

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Law of Illinois

The law of Illinois consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, as well as case law and local law.

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Laws of Illinois

The Laws of the State of Illinois are the official publication of the session laws of the Illinois General Assembly.

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LexisNexis

LexisNexis Group is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services.

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Lieutenant Governor of Illinois

The Lieutenant Governor of Illinois is the second highest executive of the State of Illinois.

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List of Speakers of the Illinois House of Representatives

This is a complete list of the Speakers of the Illinois House of Representatives, as of 2007.

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Lottie Holman O'Neill

Lottie (Holman) O'Neill (November 7, 1878 - February 17, 1967) was an American politician from Illinois notable for being the first woman elected to the Illinois General Assembly.

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Michael Madigan

Michael Joseph Madigan (born April 19, 1942) is the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.

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Nesting (voting districts)

Nesting is the delimitation of voting districts for one elected body in order to define the voting districts for another body.

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Parity (mathematics)

In mathematics, parity is the property of an integer's inclusion in one of two categories: even or odd.

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President of the Illinois Senate

This is a complete list of the Presidents of the Illinois Senate.

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President of the Senate

The President of the Senate is a title often given to the presiding officer of a senate, and is the speaker of other assemblies.

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Session laws

Session laws are the collection of statutes enacted by a legislature during a single session of that legislature, often published following the end of the session as a bound volume.

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Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.

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State legislature (United States)

A state legislature in the United States is the legislative body of any of the 50 U.S. states.

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Term limits in the United States

Term limits in the United States apply to many offices at both the federal and state level, and date back to the American Revolution.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States Census

The United States Census is a decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States...

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Chicago Library

University of Chicago Library is the library system of the University of Chicago, located on the university's campus in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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University of Illinois at Springfield

The University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is a public university in Springfield, Illinois, United States.

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Vote Smart

Vote Smart, formerly called Project Vote Smart, is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that collects and distributes information on candidates for public office in the United States.

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Western Illinois University

Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university located in Macomb, Illinois, United States.

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Whig Party (United States)

The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States.

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William T. Major

William Trabue Major (1790–1867) was a prominent religious leader in Bloomington, Illinois in the mid-19th century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_General_Assembly

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