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SPRINGFIELD - State lawmakers have nearly completed approving a spending plan that puts off big questions about the state's financial future and how much its residents should pay in taxes until after the contentious November election.
The debate ove...
Updated: May 31, 2014 at 09:08 AM
ATLANTA - Heading into a busy primary day, Republicans around the country are pleading with voters to turn out in high-profile races that will help determine which party controls the Senate for the final two years of President Barack Obama's tenure....
Updated: May 20, 2014 at 12:11 PM
WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell dispatched his tea party challenger with ease Tuesday night, and Democrats turned to two women, Alison Lundergan Grimes to oppose him in Kentucky and Michelle Nunn to fight for Georgia, in electi...
Updated: May 20, 2014 at 10:36 PM
WASHINGTON - Tuesday's high-profile primary elections may extend a streak of sorts for Tea Party Republicans: losing individual races but winning the larger ideological war by tugging the GOP rightward.
Several Tea Party-endorsed candidates are stru...
Updated: May 18, 2014 at 07:12 PM
WASHINGTON - In the latest prep work for a presidential campaign, Rand Paul is conspicuously courting moderate and establishment Republicans while Ted Cruz keeps up a travel schedule that has 2016 written all over it. Jeb Bush is stirring from somet...
Updated: May 17, 2014 at 11:13 AM
Community Unit District 300 has tapped a Florida administrator to become its next superintendent, a top official confirmed Wednesday night.
Fred Heid, chief academic officer for Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida, will assume the h...
Updated: May 15, 2014 at 01:46 PM
Lake County officials are getting closer to giving county boards a better chance to fire appointees.
Why would they want to?
Lake County Board Chairman Aaron Lawlor points to the $122,000 the Lake County Housing Authority board paid to former CEO Je...
Updated: May 02, 2014 at 04:05 PM
SPRINGFIELD - When questions arose about political hiring at the Illinois Department of Transportation, Gov. Pat Quinn's administration evaluated several jobs that already had been filled to ensure they were among the few positions where an applican...
Updated: Apr 24, 2014 at 07:54 PM
Some of Illinois' highest-profile Republicans voiced support Tuesday for an immigration overhaul that's stalled in the U.S. House as a "morally right" and business-minded decision, an election-year move they hoped would help break the stalemate.
The...
Updated: Apr 22, 2014 at 09:20 PM
A decision on who will lead Community Unit District 300 could be made in two weeks, a district official said Monday.
The school board has narrowed its list of candidates to two finalists for the superintendent's job. The board will interview the pai...
Updated: Apr 15, 2014 at 06:33 AM