Kerry Lester
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Violence in Chicago hits close to home for MulliganJun 14, 2011 12:00 am - Recent reports of mob violence in Chicago brought memories from nearly 45 years ago flooding back to state Rep. Rosemary Mulligan, propelling the Des Plaines Republican ...
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Foster donates Weiner funds to food bankJun 14, 2011 12:00 am - Batavia scientist Bill Foster, the former congressman who plans to run in the newly drawn 11th District, has donated $1,000 to the St. Charles-based Northern Illinois Fo...
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Budget impasse could cost 52,000 jobs, halt road projectsJun 06, 2011 12:00 am - Road and bridge construction projects around the suburbs could be halted this summer — along with 52,000 jobs statewide — if lawmakers don't return to Springfield to app...
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’Burbs flex muscle in new congressional mapJun 06, 2011 12:00 am - Thanks to Democratic state lawmakers, a Cubs fan who lives in Addison can head more than two dozen miles east to Wrigley Field at Addison and Sheffield in Chicago, never...
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Suburban Political RecountJun 02, 2011 12:00 am - Winners and losers State lawmakers have taken on a huge number of controversial proposals in their annual session, finishing at about midnight Tuesday. That much co...
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Congressional map sent to Quinn amid GOP protestsMay 31, 2011 12:00 am - A map drawn by Democrats that could reduce Republican representation in Congress by stretching and skewing suburban district boundary lines was sent to Gov. Pat Quinn’s ...
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New congressional map squeezes suburban GOPMay 27, 2011 12:00 am - As it stands right now, Republicans hold all but one of the congressional seats in the Northwest suburbs. Aiming to make such a ratio more difficult come 2012 and beyond...
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Did Arlington Park labor dispute hold up gambling bill?May 26, 2011 12:00 am - Arlington Park's opposition to a paragraph in a gambling bill may have played a role in holding up the whole deal, the legislation's sponsor says. By a 6-5 vote, lawmake...
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House committee rejects gambling legislationMay 25, 2011 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Legislation that would expand gambling in Illinois and allow slot machines at Arlington Park was rejected by a House committee Wednesday. By a 6-5 vote, la...
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Andrea’s law passes SenateMay 25, 2011 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Changes to the state’s murder registry inspired by the release of the convicted killer of a Batavia girl 12 years after her death passed the state Senate W...