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"This is a law that is going to create jobs. But most importantly it will save lives," Kotowski said.

The idea for the campaign came from comments by state Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-33rd, at the foundation's recent "Hearts and Hugs" dinner at Misericordia Home, in Chicago, urging "everyone in the room" to ask their lawmakers for more epilepsy-research funding, Stanton said.

The current budget process makes our state vulnerable to waste, fraud and mismanagement because it allows for unchecked spending and little accountability. Nothing will change in state government until we overhaul this broken and ineffective process.

The bill would decrease from four-fifths to three-fifths the share of County Board members needed to override a board president's veto...The same goes for every other county in Illinois, according to Sen. Dan Kotowski, D- Park Ridge, the Senate sponsor of the override bill...

"It's a matter of fairness," said state Sen. Dan Kotowski, a Park Ridge Democrat who sponsored the proposal in the Senate...

Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge, is the sponsor of today's measure. Stroger traveled to the Capitol earlier this month to oppose the legislation...

...two state lawmakers -- Sen. Dan Kotowski and Rep. Julie Hamos -- are hoping to pass legislation lowering the override threshold from a four-fifths majority to a three-fifths majority during the General Assembly's veto session in October...

(Springfield, IL) – The Illinois House today voted 116-0 to create a new approach to help Illinois abused and neglected children living in residential and group homes get more sophisticated care and avoid hospitalization.

State Senate Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) has announced that he will pursue a bold package of legislation to protect the pocketbooks of hard-working Illinoisans, increase public health and safety, and improve the quality and efficiency of government in the 96th General Assembly.

"Given what we've just come through in our state, I think the (lesson) that Lincoln demonstrated of reaching out to people, even to his opponents, to make sure that he achieved results is a very, very important one..."

State Senator Dan Kotowski (D-Park Ridge) is excited to start getting things done with a new governor, and State Senator Gary Dahl (R-Granville) agrees. He says what's going to bring that change about is a governor who's accessible, and who will appear before the Senate.

"My role as a juror in the trial is to weigh the evidence carefully and make a decision based on that evidence," said Kotowski. "I have a constitutional responsibility as a juror..."