Senator Hunter is joined by Senator Tony Munoz; C.W. Chan, Chairman; Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (Chicago); and Senator Kwame Raoul.

Last month, I had an amazing opportunity to join Governor Quinn and Senators Raoul and Munoz on a trade mission to China.  During our week-long mission, we were able to broker several major deals to help the biotech industry in Illinois.  Those agreements included a memorandum of cooperation between the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition (ISTC), iBIO, and China-based Shanghai Bio Pharmaceutics Association (SBIA) to increase economic opportunities for both regions in the bio-technology field.   Also agreed was a $70 million deal in corn products between C&D, Inc. in Illinois and China’s Xiamen C&D, Inc. and a sister-schools agreement between Illinois’ schools and schools in the Zhejiang Province. 

Each October brings awareness to a disturbing, but all too real, occurrence in America: domestic abuse. Families are torn apart by this vicious and heinous offense every day. It affects men, women and children. The Domestic Violence Awareness Project was to help educate the public that no one should live with domestic abuse from a loved one.

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer women suffer in the United States, and it is second only to lung cancer as the cause of cancer death. Thankfully, efforts by the American Cancer Society; the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.; Susan G. Komen for the Cure; and many other organizations have changed the diagnosis of breast cancer from a death sentence to a disease that can be overcome.

This year, it is estimated that more than 288,000 new cases of breast cancer in women will be diagnosed in the U.S. and almost 40,000 women will lose their battle. And while we are ingrained with the motto "Think Pink," breast cancer also affects men. While it is considerably rare, 2,140 men are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. this year, resulting in an estimated 450 deaths.

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