<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Home rule communities in Illinois are able to make </span>

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many decisions to protect community health and the environment, but pesticide regulation is not one of these rights in Illinois.

Click through to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ilenviro" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=96210327234">The Illinois Environmental Council</a> to tell your state legislator what you think about SB3565, which gives communities with populations over 50,000 in Cook County the ability regulate their own pesticide usage.