Articles filed under Illinois
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Optimism, calls for ethics reforms highlight Pritzker's addressJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. J.B. Pritzker struck a tone of optimism and accomplishment in his annual State of the State Address on Wednesday, declaring "the old patronage system ...
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NIU won't require standardized test scores from applicantsJan 29, 2020 12:00 am - Students applying to Northern Illinois University for the fall 2021 or later will no longer need to submit standardized test scores, officials said. NIU will nix the use...
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Central Illinois authorities report 3 dead in plane crashJan 28, 2020 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Three people were killed when a small plane crashed in a field southeast of Springfield, Illinois, authorities said Tuesday. The Sangamon County...
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Ex-Illinois lawmaker pleads guilty in red-light bribery caseJan 28, 2020 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A former Illinois state senator pleaded guilty Tuesday to accepting around a quarter of a million dollars in bribes in exchange for protecting t...
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Senate bill would outlaw using live animals as carnival prizesJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - It is a mainstay of fairs and carnivals around the country: Sink a Ping-Pong ball into a fish bowl and win the goldfish swimming inside. But if a bill in the Illinois Se...
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House Republicans tie ethics reforms to redistricting changes in IllinoisJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Remodeling how Illinois' political districts are drawn is the key to addressing the "dark cloud" of ethical violations hovering over state government, Hous...
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Lawmakers aim to end state-to-state corporate poachingJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Two Democratic lawmakers unveiled legislation Tuesday to form a multi-state compact in which each member state would vow not to use company-specific tax in...
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Harmon names new Senate leadership team, and Link's not on itJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - New state Senate President Don Harmon, an Oak Park Democrat, announced his leadership team Tuesday on the first day of the 2020 legislative session. Notice...
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State police say forensic evidence backlog is shrinking, but more help neededJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - When an Illinois Senate panel met last March to discuss the state's backlog of untested forensic evidence, there were more than 70 DNA samples in murder ca...
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Sandoval pleads guilty to bribery, tax chargesJan 28, 2020 12:00 am - At the time a powerful state senator, Martin Sandoval said in a 2018 restaurant meeting in Burr Ridge that he was going all out for a red-light camera company in return ...