{"id":4743,"date":"2020-01-20T07:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2020-01-20T07:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:08:46","slug":"illinois-legislative-update-new-senate-president-don-harmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/illinois-legislative-update-new-senate-president-don-harmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Legislative Update: New Senate President &#8211; Don Harmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Yesterday the Senate convened\u00a0to formally elect Senator Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, as Senate President for the remainder of the 101st Illinois General Assembly, effective immediately. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Harmon, 53, was born and raised in Oak Park, he has represented the 39th District since 2003. His district includes Chicago&#8217;s Austin neighborhood and the suburbs of Oak Park, Addison, Bensenville, Elmwood Park, Franklin Park, Melrose Park, Northlake, River Grove, Rosemont, Schiller Park, and Stone Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Both chambers are scheduled to return to Springfield <a href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\"><span class=\"s2\">on Tuesday, January\u00a028th.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 This will begin the 2020 Spring Session.\u00a0 The House and Senate calendars\u00a0can be found by clicking the following links ::\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/house\/schedules\/2020_Session_Calendar.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">House Calendar<\/span><\/a>\u00a0;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/senate\/schedules\/2020_Session_Calendar.pdf\"><span class=\"s3\">Senate Calendar<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Governor Pritzker is scheduled to give his State of the State Address <a href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/3\"><span class=\"s2\">on Wednesday, January 29th.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Senate convened\u00a0to formally elect Senator Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, as Senate President for the remainder of the 101st Illinois General Assembly, effective immediately. \u00a0 Harmon, 53, was born and raised in Oak Park, he has represented the 39th District since 2003. His district includes Chicago&#8217;s Austin neighborhood and the suburbs of Oak Park, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy-news","tag-legislative-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibio.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}