From the Andersonville Daily Some stories land with a bang producing cataclysmic changes. Andersonville’s top story for 2011 isn’t that type of change. It is one that every day is quietly and fundamentally causing silently profound changes. Civil Unions. It started on January 31st when Governor Quinn signed a bill. And then moved to […]
Our Opinion: City panel makes bad call on insurance
December 27, 2011 By
The State Journal-Register The text of the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act opens with these words: “This Act shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are to provide adequate procedures for the certification and registration of a civil union and provide persons entering into a […]
Civil union couples spread throughout central Illinois
December 27, 2011 By
By DOUG FINKE (doug.finke@sj-r.com) The State Journal-Register All but one county in the Springfield area has issued civil union licenses since the law creating civil unions in Illinois went into effect June 1. The sole exception is Cass County west of Springfield. More than 150 civil union licenses have been issued in […]
State will let couples in civil unions file joint tax returns
December 2, 2011 By
By Jamey Dunn Illinois couples in civil unions will now be required to file their state tax returns in the same way as married couples. The new plan is a reversal from a previous policy, under which couples in civil unions could not file state taxes together. The Illinois Department of Revenue had decided […]