Articles filed under Politics
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How the Women's March left a lasting impact on these suburban activistsJan 14, 2019 4:30 am - The Women's March movement ignited a fire in Mary O'Connor when she joined millions of women the past two years participating in demonstrations across the globe. Within ...
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The Burke case and the need for property tax reform in IllinoisJan 14, 2019 12:00 am - Ever since I was a young boy, I have remembered my father waiting for that fateful day when we would receive our new Cook County property tax assessment for our small bu...
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McSweeney vows to continue push for suburban consolidation plan despite vetoJan 14, 2019 12:00 am - State Rep. David McSweeney pledged Monday to reintroduce a plan to make it easier for McHenry County voters to abolish local townships after it was vetoed by outgoing Go...
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Gov. Pritzker gives Democrats near-record power in IllinoisJan 14, 2019 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Billionaire J.B. Pritzker took the oath Monday as Illinois governor, giving Democrats nearly unprecedented power at the Statehouse after four years of divi...
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The women who gained offices in DuPage CountyJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - As women gained electoral victories across the country, ushering in the highest proportion of women ever to serve at once in state legislatures across the nation at 28.6...
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Anger, action, election: How Democratic women in DuPage mirrored national trend and gained representationJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - For Democratic women, 2018 included all the ingredients of a groundbreaking year: the second annual Women's March, the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and harassmen...
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Fact check: Elizabeth Warren's claim that minimum wage supported her family in the 1960sJan 11, 2019 12:00 am - "Because when I was a kid, a minimum wage job in America would support a family of three. It would pay a mortgage, keep the utilities on and put food on the table. Today...
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What, precisely, do Democrats want to impeach trump for?Jan 11, 2019 12:00 am - Newly sworn-in Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib electrified progressives with her passionate declaration that she and her colleagues will "impeach the (expletive)" - the "(...
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A call for serious action to upgrade MetraJan 10, 2019 12:00 am - As members of the Metra Board of Directors, and as mayors of cities in the Chicago area, we are doubly concerned about the commuter railroad's serious capital funding cr...
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Listening, respect and the flow of democracyJan 10, 2019 12:00 am - Last month, we opened the door to an expanded way of thinking about Daily Herald editorials when we hosted a meeting of the new members of a Sounding Board we assembled ...