Articles filed under Political Figures
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Lester: Madigan opponent pardoned for suburban forgery, theftJan 21, 2016 4:30 am - Editor's note: This article has been updated to include a photo of Cascade Drive-In. Longtime House Speaker Michael Madigan's Democratic primary opponent, whose...
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Rauner backs pension plan that offers choice, with caveatJan 21, 2016 12:00 am - Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's announcement Thursday that he supported a top Democrat's proposal to cut pension benefits came with one major departure over collective ba...
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Meals on Wheels' state money gets moving, slowlyJan 16, 2016 6:40 am - The DuPage Senior Citizens Council announced in December that its Meals on Wheels program would become another casualty of the Illinois budget stalemate, cutting its hom...
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Rauner asks labor board to rule if labor talks at impasseJan 15, 2016 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Gov. Bruce Rauner is asking a labor board to determine whether negotiations with the state's largest public employee union have reached an impasse. R...
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A year after Rauner promised it, state still trying to post local salariesJan 13, 2016 10:00 pm - A year after Gov. Bruce Rauner directed his administration to help local governments start putting their employee salary data on a state website, the information still h...
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Suburban guests at Obama's speech welcome mention of addictionJan 13, 2016 12:00 am - Mark Filler of Highland Park felt conflicting emotions as he sat down in the U.S. Capitol to watch the State of the Union address Tuesday night. The longtime politics ju...
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Local lawmakers react to State of the Union speechJan 12, 2016 12:00 am - The president gets to give the State of the Union address, but local members of Congress are always ready to weigh in. Here's what they were saying Tuesday night. U.S. S...
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Obama's last State of the Union will start at 8 p.m.Jan 12, 2016 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will deliver his last State of the Union speech tonight at a moment when the fear and anger in the American electorate seem to have c...
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After one year, Rauner sounds familiar tuneJan 11, 2016 12:00 am - Gov. Bruce Rauner is marking his anniversary in office Tuesday by echoing some of the themes that got him into office, saying both that he's ready to compromise and crit...
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Editorial: AFSCME, Rauner and Illinois' mandate for changeJan 08, 2016 10:00 pm - It's been convenient for critics of Gov. Bruce Rauner, and particularly for leaders of some of the public employee unions, to characterize him as an anti-union boogeyman...