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What suburban businesses, residents need to know about governor’s budgetMar 17, 2024 5:30 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently touted his fiscal year 2025 budget plan in the annual State of the State address. Spoiler alert: Pritzker’s $52.7 billion budget, the largest...
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Whatever happened with Fields, Bears would regret itMar 16, 2024 9:20 pm - Curiously, the sympathy for noted wallflower and orphan quarterback Justin Fields grew daily as the human highlight film awaited his fate, not all that bad really. Fields...
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Biden's corporate tax hike: Populism vs. economic literacyMar 16, 2024 2:29 pm - In the latest volley of policy proposals that seem more rooted in populist rhetoric than economic knowledge, President Joe Biden's budget plan to hike the corporate incom...
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In his own wordsMar 16, 2024 1:30 pm - The man can't control himself. In a nearly two-hour speech at a rally in Georgia this weekend, he told the audience: “I just posted a $91 million bond — $91 million on a ...
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A summary of Daily Herald primary endorsementsMar 16, 2024 12:30 pm - The primary election to select candidates for the November ballot is Tuesday, March. Here is a list of Daily Herald endorsements in contested races for major parties. For...
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Transformational boost for higher-ed would also help stateMar 15, 2024 1:15 am - It isn’t often lawmakers get to consider transformational policy proposals. Legislative change is typically incremental. But just last week, the state’s Commission on Equ...
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Silvy: Keeping Fields after drafting Williams isn’t an option for BearsMar 14, 2024 7:13 am - Ryan Poles, the GM who isn’t scared to take big swings, is standing in the batter’s box with the bat on his shoulder.
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Turning pro suits American record-holder LettenbergerMar 14, 2024 6:00 am - It’s always swimsuit season for Ahalya Lettenberger, a para swimmer who holds five American records, setting one as recently as November swimming for Rice University.
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Jim O'Donnell: Seasoned Arlington developer splashes doubt on Bears' lakefront play ployMar 14, 2024 6:00 am - Are the Bears serious about building a new stadium in Chicago, or is that just a negotiating ploy to boost public funding of their Arlington Heights site?
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The special demands of covering a Bears move as local newsMar 14, 2024 2:30 am - From the first hints in the summer of 2021 that the Chicago Bears might be seriously considering a move to Arlington Heights, covering the twists and turns of the story h...