CHICAGO – State Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, issued this statement following the news that Walgreens will be adding Mifepristone to some Illinois stores: “Nationally, anti-choice extremists are attacking the bodily autonomy of every birthing person, but in Illinois,...
CHICAGO – State Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, responded to last week’s rash of outages in the Metra transit system’s app Ventra, by inviting officials from the company to Springfield to speak to state lawmakers. “Last week many Chicagoans faced major disruptions to...
CHICAGO – State Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, joined other lawmakers at the ‘Communities in Action: Building a Better Illinois and Indiana’ event at the White House to explore new solutions to local challenges and meet with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to...
CHICAGO – State Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, will be holding a press conference covering his measure: the Homicide Victims’ Families Rights Act, which allows family members of cold case victims to seek new investigations, on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 9 a.m., at the TURN...
CHICAGO— State Rep. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, is spearheading a measure to support growing businesses by creating “Business Improvement Districts,” or “BIDs.” BIDs would raise more revenue than existing economic development tools, while allowing affected businesses to...