WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: CHICAGO ? Today, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Chicago CRED and its founder Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education, to announce nearly $4 million in new federal funding CRED will be receiving through the U.S. Department of Justice for a Community Violence Intervention project to reduce gun violence. Chicago CRED will use this federal funding more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Rep. Eric Sorensen, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17), the only meteorologist in Congress, is calling on Congress to return to Washington to help impacted Americans and pass much-needed disaster relief as Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida and in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. "As a meteorologist for over two decades, I have witnessed up-close massive floods, tornados, hurricanes, derechos, and other extre more PR