Articles filed under Politics
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Lester: Arlington Park, racing board want to chip in money to boost pursesDec 01, 2016 4:30 am - Arlington Park and others finally might have come up with a way to boost the lagging horse-racing business in Illinois, and it'll require the tracks and regulators to po...
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Wheeling High graduate behind conservative 'Professor Watchlist''Nov 30, 2016 4:00 am - A Wheeling native is the driving force behind a new website that identifies professors from Illinois and around the country and claims they “discriminate against conserv...
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Report: Trump names Todd Ricketts to No. 2 Commerce postNov 30, 2016 12:00 am - President-elect Donald Trump has named Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts to be his next Deputy Secretary of Commerce, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times. T...
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Lester: 'Duke' in hospice as fight for Medal of Honor continuesNov 28, 2016 4:30 am - Loren "Duke" Abdalla, age 91 and dealing with advanced colon cancer, says he doesn't dwell on not receiving the Medal of Honor many say he deserves for his heroism in th...
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Ex-Gov. Ryan 'got along well' with Castro but never forgot dictator's brutalityNov 28, 2016 4:00 am - The beginnings of George Ryan's historic trip to Cuba - where he was the first sitting U.S. governor to meet with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro - can be traced back to a p...
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Megyn Kelly in Lombard advises Trump: 'Try to take the high road'Nov 28, 2016 12:00 am - Journalist discusses president-elect during charity event in Lombard
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Fact checking Trump's bogus claim that 'millions of people' voted illegally for Hillary ClintonNov 27, 2016 12:00 am - “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” President-elect Donald Tr...
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Davis: Here's an election law legislators should passNov 26, 2016 1:00 pm - Just as you breathed a sigh of relief for surviving the grueling ordeal of this past election, here comes another - and much more difficult - one. At least for us. Filin...
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Des Plaines department heads won't face residency requirementNov 22, 2016 12:00 am - The Des Plaines City Council decided Monday night to uphold its policy of not requiring department heads to live in town. Many department heads, including the police chi...
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D15 bond issue was just too bigNov 21, 2016 4:00 am - By now, most District 15 residents have learned that the recent $130 million referendum was voted down in last Tuesday's election. No one should doubt that the final vot...