Report: Quinn To Sign Illinois Marriage Equality Bill On Lincoln’s Desk

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn holds a budget bill that he said he would use his line-item veto on that would suspend Illinois lawmakers' pay during a new conference Wednesday, July 10, 2013, in Chicago.
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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) will sign the state’s marriage equality bill Wednesday on Abraham Lincoln’s desk, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. 

Sources told Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed that the desk Lincoln used to write his first inaugural address will be shipped Wednesday morning from Springfield, Ill. to Chicago.

Illinois will become the 16th state to legalize same sex marriage, just a week after Hawaii did the same.

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