Local Politics
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Filing opens for Cook County offices, boardNov 25, 2013 9:00 am - Today's kickoff of the Cook County election season became almost a social gathering for three incumbent members of the Cook County Board — Republicans Gregg Goslin of Gl...
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Filing starts for primaries for Kane County positionsNov 25, 2013 8:54 am - A longtime friend of Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen is running for a county board seat against incumbent Melisa Taylor, who had supported Lauzen in his bid for ...
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DuPage County Board hopeful beats the crowdNov 25, 2013 8:36 am - Paula McGowen is an early riser who’s eager to challenge an incumbent DuPage County Board member in the Republican primary. So while she didn’t have to be at the county ...
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Candidate filing begins in Lake County, some showdowns already shaping upNov 25, 2013 8:15 am - Of all the candidates who made it to the Lake County clerk’s office in Waukegan early Monday morning to file paperwork for the March primary ballot, Mary Cunningham prob...
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Filing period begins for March primary electionNov 24, 2013 3:23 pm - Candidates will line up Monday outside election commission offices in DuPage and Will counties to file nominating petitions for a variety of offices in the March 18 prim...
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Stroger to run for county boardNov 14, 2013 8:00 pm - Former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger told a classroom of political science students that he will run for the county commissioner seat formerly held by William...
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Two seek GOP nod for another Kane County circuit judge seatNov 05, 2013 1:23 pm - A longtime Kane County associate judge and an Aurora attorney have declared their candidacies for the Kane County Circuit Judge seat formerly held by Timothy Sheldon, wh...
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Prospect Hts. hosts property tax seminarNov 04, 2013 3:50 pm - Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Dan Patlak will host a seminar on appealing property tax assessments at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at St. Alphonsus Liguori Cath...
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Democrat Kilkelly running for Lake County clerkNov 04, 2013 10:48 am - Democrat Janet Kilkelly, president of the Waukegan Park District board, has announced she’ll run for Lake County clerk in 2014. Kilkelly is the first candidate to step ...
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Clerk candidate surfacesOct 28, 2013 2:19 pm - A Lake Forest attorney has announced her candidacy for Lake County clerk. Carla N. Wyckoff, an assistant state’s attorney in Lake County, is running for the Republican P...