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Krishnamoorthi donates campaign cash from Trump adviser Shyam Sankar to immigrant rights groups

By Tina Sfondeles
Dec 10, 2025 3:28 pm - U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi has donated $29,300 — the entirety of campaign contributions from Palantir chief technology officer Shyam Sankar — to immigrant rights groups, his Senate campaign said Wednesday.
Mundelein creates local 1% grocery tax — but revenue won’t arrive for months

By Russell Lissau
Dec 10, 2025 10:22 am - Mundelein trustees this week unanimously approved creating a 1% local tax on groceries to replace a state tax that’s about to expire.
Krishnamoorthi, Mendrick survive challenges, but some candidates knocked out

By Marni Pyke
Dec 09, 2025 6:59 pm - Objections against Democratic U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi’s and DuPage Sheriff James Mendrick’s petitions were dismissed.
Pritzker signs bill enacting immigrant protections at courthouses and on campus

By Brenden Moore
Dec 09, 2025 5:56 pm - Christening it as part of a “nation-leading” response to aggressive federal immigration raids, Gov. JB Pritzker signed legislation Tuesday allowing Illinois residents to sue immigration agents who arrest them in or near courthouses or if they believe their constitutional rights were violated.
33rd state Senate candidate removed from ballot

By Susan Sarkauskas
Dec 09, 2025 2:24 pm - Cody Holt, who is seeking the Republican nomination for the 33rd state Senate seat, was removed Tuesday from the March primary ballot.
Crowded Senate race could slim down as state board rules on objections

By Marni Pyke
Dec 08, 2025 5:10 pm - Twenty candidates are jostling for U.S. Senate spot, who’s likely to be knocked off the ballot?
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...

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