Articles filed under Politics
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State panel tackles use of isolation rooms at schoolsJan 07, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Legislators and advocates began discussions Tuesday of what action the state can take to counteract the overuse of physical restraint and forced isolation ...
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Property tax reduction? Task force's draft report suggests ways to make it happenJan 07, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A task force formed to study ways to reduce property tax burden on Illinois residents is calling for consolidation of school districts and other local unit...
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State will stop helping towns collect on red-light camera ticketsJan 06, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Pressure is mounting on red-light camera operators as Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza announced Monday that, beginning Feb. 6, her office will no longe...
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Analysis: Minimum wage increases fueling faster wage growth for those at the bottomJan 05, 2020 5:00 am - The United States' lowest-paid workers are seeing their paychecks rise at the fastest pace in more than a decade. Slow wage growth has plagued the economy ever since job...
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Moving on after running out an obsessive life clockJan 05, 2020 12:00 am - On Dec. 29, I became one day older than my mother on the day she died. I did not go to bed until I could say this out loud. At the stroke of midnight, I turned to my hus...
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Playing the numbers with gun cultureJan 05, 2020 12:00 am - In Texas, where life is cheap, and so are the senators, a plucky church security force member raised his gun in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and s...
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Joe Walsh skipping Illinois primary in bid to unseat TrumpJan 05, 2020 12:00 am - GOP presidential hopeful Joe Walsh, a former suburban U.S. House member, will not be on the Illinois primary ballot in March, his spokesman told the Chicago Sun-Times on...
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Activists call for peace in the Middle East at Naperville rallyJan 05, 2020 12:00 am - As tensions continued to rise Sunday in the Middle East over the killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, suburban activists and political leaders gathered in downtown N...
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Editorial: Centrists and the 2020 electionJan 04, 2020 1:00 pm - Permit us a few political observations as we begin a new year that no doubt will be marked by more of the nation's recent stormy politics. Severe left wingers in the Dem...
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Hundreds of Trump supporters rally in AlgonquinJan 04, 2020 12:00 am - Waving signs and flags, more than 350 supporters of President Donald Trump lined Randall Road during a two-hour rally in Algonquin Saturday. The rally, organized by Joe ...