Employees make plush toy bears at a production facility in Ankang, Shaanxi province, on Friday. ZOU JINGYI/XINHUA XI'AN — During this Christmas season, Care Bears dressed in Santa Claus hats and other ...

Heeding Gov. JB Pritzker's warning that he would veto a plan that relied on increases to the state's sales or income taxes, legislators instead produced a package that raised so-called sin taxes.