Articles filed under Politics
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District 220 working on details for new referendum in MarchAug 01, 2019 5:35 am - Barrington Area Unit District 220 board members are planning to place another referendum on the ballot early next year seeking voter permission to borrow money to fund b...
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Gun store erects billboard with minority lawmakers' facesAug 01, 2019 1:00 am -
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Winners and losers from night two of the CNN Dem debateAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - Wednesday night completed the second Democratic debate of the 2020 election, with Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California and former Vice President ...
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End is near for much of Democratic fieldAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - Twenty Democratic presidential candidates debated Tuesday and Wednesday nights. It will be the last time voters will see some of them on a debate stage. The Democratic N...
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Fitch changes Illinois credit outlook to 'stable;' rating remains unchangedAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - Fitch Ratings moved its outlook on Illinois' credit rating from "negative" to "stable" Wednesday, good news for the state, which has the worst credit rating in the natio...
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Dem debate: 8 key moments from Night 2 as rivals went after BidenAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - The theme of Tuesday's debate was the highest-polling candidates - Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. - were getting ahead of their party's leftw...
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Stay tuned: Federal probes may show how right Rauner wasAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - Bruce Rauner wasn't a very good governor, but he was mostly right on policy issues. Rauner, who's been virtually silent since leaving office in January, wanted to amend ...
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Analysis: How the Fed's interest-rate cut helps Trump wage his trade warAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - WASHNGTON - Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell may not have wanted to cut interest rates. But in the end, President Donald Trump appears to have given him no choi...
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Fact-checking the second Democratic debateAug 01, 2019 1:00 am - In the second night of the second Democratic debate, the candidates often made complex claims and counterclaims about each other's records, some of which are not easily ...
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8 big moments from Night 1 of the second Democratic debateJul 31, 2019 1:00 am - The first night of the second Democratic debate showcased more moderate candidates directly challenging their more liberal and better-known rivals on core issues includi...