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Today the Daily Herald joins with newspapers around the state that are entreating the lawmakers and leaders of Illinois with a simple demand:

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2016

The unionists are entreating public opinion to protect them against the unfairness of "government by injunction."

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David

The people are entreating her to stay law proceedings, to give them time, to employ them; the poorest are all importuning her with stories of their sufferings.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Merchants are entreating me to tell them what I know.

From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron

“Do I understand that something hath gone amiss for which you are entreating lenity?”

From Peggy Owen and Liberty by Madison, Lucy Foster