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Obamacare enrollment in Illinois is falling, and the Trump administration wants to scrap it. Here are 5 things to know

Fewer Illinois residents signed up for health insurance through the Obamacare exchange this year - as questions continued to swirl about whether the law would continue to stand.

About 312,280 Illinois residents selected health plans through the exchange for this year, according to data released by the federal government Monday afternoon. That's down from about 334,979 last year - a decline of nearly 7 percent. Nationally, enrollment fell by about 3 percent, to 11.4 million.

Illinois residents signed up for coverage even as the Trump administration made a number of changes, and court challenges to the law persisted. The Trump administration, for example, now says it

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