Polly Poskin

Community Voices continues with an event you may have missed. The Citizens Club of Springfield hosted an update on Moving Pillsbury Forward.

This month marks a year since the Me Too movement went viral as a hashtag on social media (after having first been started in 2006 by Tarana Burke.) This…

A measure that has passed the Illinois House would require hospitals to have Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) who can treat and examine victims of…

More than 260 girls and young women came forward to tell their stories of sexual assault by former USA Olympic doctor Larry Nassar, who is currently…

This story first appeared as Illinois Issues' State of the State column in the October 2014 edition of the magazine.Twenty-fourteen was going to be a…