Illinois
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Tax amendment fails in Illinois, provides no budget relief
Nov 04, 2020 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Voters have rejected a proposal to abolish Illinois' flat-rate income tax for one that would take a greater share from wealthier taxpayers. The...
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Voters approve merger of 3 southwest Illinois towns
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Republican Adam Kinzinger wins reelection to U.S. House in Illinois' 16th Congressional District
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Republican Mike Bost wins reelection to U.S. House in Illinois' 12th Congressional District
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Republican Mary Miller wins election to U.S. House in Illinois' 15th Congressional District
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Democrat Sean Casten wins reelection to U.S. House in Illinois' 6th Congressional District
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COVID-19 hospitalizations continue 'alarming increase'Nov 04, 2020 12:00 am - With 167 more hospitalized for COVID-19 Wednesday, Illinois has 3,761 patients in the hospital for the disease - a figure that has more than doubled in less than a month...
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Madigan probe postponed in SpringfieldNov 04, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The chairman of a special committee investigating Democratic State House Speaker Michael Madigan's role in a bribery scheme involving utility giant ComEd h...
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Illinois Supreme Court judge loses retention bidNov 04, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - For the first time since Illinois adopted judicial retention elections in 1964, an Illinois Supreme Court justice lost a retention bid to stay on the state...
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Pritzker says 'painful cuts' coming after graduated tax defeatNov 04, 2020 12:00 am - After the defeat of his signature graduated income tax rate plan he said would generate $3.6 billion per year more for the state, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Illinois Republ...