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State Week: Illinois leaders push back against President Trump

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Brian Mackey
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NPR Illinois

The week began with immigration raids in Chicago and a federal funding freeze. It ended with the governor saying Donald Trump is unfit to be president.

Illinois has already gone to court to fight Trump's orders. But what may lie ahead for the blue state? We'll discuss that and more on State Week.

Host Sean Crawford is joined by Professor Emeritus Charlie Wheeler and Chicago Tonight's Amanda Vinicky.

The former director of the Public Affairs Reporting (PAR) graduate program is Professor Charles N. Wheeler III, a veteran newsman who came to the University of Illinois at Springfield following a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Amanda Vinicky moved to Chicago Tonight on WTTW-TV PBS in 2017.
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