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Time for politicians to deal with property taxes

By Elliot Richardson
Dec 06, 2025 1:06 pm - Illinois businesses and homeowners have paid excessive property taxes far too long. Politicians recognize the problem, and shortly after Gov. JB Pritzker took office, he assembled a large legislative task force to analyze the situation and make recommendations. However, little has been accomplished since that time.
Suspect in DC pipe bomb case ‘disappointed’ after Trump lost 2020 election, prosecutor says

By ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Dec 05, 2025 3:42 pm - WASHINGTON — The man accused of planting a pair of pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U...
State Rep. Marty Moylan to resign from Illinois House Dec. 16

By Eric Peterson
Dec 05, 2025 2:27 pm - Democratic state Rep. Marty Moylan of Des Plaines has followed up his decision not to seek an eighth term by submitting his resignation this week to take effect Dec. 16.
Where the blame will fall if ACA subsidies expire, according to a new poll

By ALI SWENSON, LINLEY SANDERS and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX
Dec 04, 2025 3:01 pm - WASHINGTON — Fifty-two-year-old Dinam Bigny sank into debt and had to get a roommate this year, in part because of health insurance premiums that cost him nearly $900 per...
Administration again denies FEMA disaster relief for Illinois, Pritzker says

Gaya Gupta, Brianna Sacks
Nov 22, 2025 8:08 pm - The Trump administration has denied another request from Illinois to assist in the state’s recovery from severe flash floods in late July, despite a recent assessment det...
Potential presidential candidates are less coy about 2028 plans: 'Of course I’m thinking about it'

By JILL COLVIN
Nov 22, 2025 4:54 pm - NEW YORK — There was a time when presidential hopefuls played coy about their ambitions, crisscrossing the country under the guise of helping other candidates and deflect...
Cook County’s tax delay exposes Illinois’ worsening business environment

By Matt Paprocki
Nov 22, 2025 1:30 pm - Chicago’s and Cook County’s tax bases are eroding. The cost of the government keeps climbing.The biggest weak point is in the business sector. Commercial property values in the Loop fell by 7.2% during the past year. The taxes their owners will pay dropped by more than $129 million.
‘I am not perfect’: District 220 school board finds member violated board policies in her statehouse campaign

By Steve Zalusky
Nov 20, 2025 5:11 pm - The Barrington Area Unit District 220 school board voted this week to accept an outside investigator's finding that board member Erin Chan Ding violated district policies by using school resources, property and social media for prohibited political campaign activities.
‘Optimistic’ about a papal visit: Pritzker meets Pope Leo XIV in Rome and extends invite to Chicago

By Marni Pyke
Nov 19, 2025 11:54 am - Gov. JB Pritzker sat down with Pope Leo XIV in Rome, discussed immigration raids in Chicago, and presented ‘Da Pope’ beer to the Illinois native.
Duckworth staffer dismissed in light of immigration accusations

By Beth Hundsdorfer
Nov 18, 2025 5:11 pm - U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has fired a staffer accused of misrepresenting himself as an attorney and falsifying an official form to visit and secure the release of a Staunton restaurant owner detained by immigration agents.

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