Under The Dome Podcast: Madigan calls for removal of Stephen Douglas statues

On this week's episode of the Under the Dome Podcast the State Journal-Register's Bernard Schoenburg and Doug Finke work remotely to bring you the latest updates from the Illinois Statehouse and Illinois' response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On this episode they dive into Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan calling for the removal of statues and portraits of the 19th century U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas from the Statehouse, they discuss Kristin Richards, the current Chief of Staff to the Senate President, being named the new director of the Illinois Department of Employment Security and lastly they dive into the Vote No on the Progressive Tax Coalition an organization representing small businesses and farmers that added their voices to the fight to defeat Gov. JB Pritzker's plan to bring a progressive income tax to the state.

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Under The Dome Podcast: Madigan calls for removal of Stephen Douglas statues is an episode from Under the Dome by Gannett Media / Consumer Products.

This episode is 19:40 long.

This episode was published on Jul 10, 2020.

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