Legislation that increases the fines for spraying humans with pesticides has passed the Illinois Senate. First introduced in 2021, this is the first time the legislation passed a statehouse chamber. The push for higher fines came in the wake of two 2019 incidents involving the same crew of farmworkers. On two separate occasions that summer, […]
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