Another recent bill Hendon sponsored was aimed at expanding opportunities for minority owned businesses to compete and ultimately bring additional film projects and television studios to Illinois.
In 2009, Senator Hendon was a principal proponent of a bill for $31 billion in capital-spending for education passed in May by the state Legislature.
Part of the bill would have ensured that 40 million in funds would go to Chicago State University for a West Side campus.
[3] In that same month, Hendon made "nasty" remarks about State Senator Bill Brady, who was the Republican nominee for Governor.
[4] While introducing Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, Hendon told the crowd that he had "never served with such an idiotic, racist, sexist, homophobic person in my life...