Articles filed under Politics
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Rep. Casten has fundraising lead over Newman, others in new 6th DistrictFeb 01, 2022 12:00 am - With a potentially costly Democratic primary battle less than six months away, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten ended 2021 with a dominating fundraising lead over U.S. Rep. Marie N...
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Voters oppose 'transformative' policies, want reform of dysfunctional bureaucraciesFeb 01, 2022 12:00 am - Do Americans really want transformative change? The evidence accumulates that they don't. That is a problem for the Joe Biden Democrats, whose policies are premised on t...
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Chaos and crime are not homelessFeb 01, 2022 12:00 am - New Yorker Michelle Go was pushed in front of a moving subway train, Sandra Shells was waiting for a bus in Los Angeles and Brianna Kupfer was working in a furniture sto...
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Legislative session canceled, but Pritzker still will deliver budget address WednesdayJan 31, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. J.B. Pritzker plans to use his annual budget address Wednesday to offer consumers relief from soaring inflation by lifting or rebating some of the big...
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Editorial: The optimism of Franklin RooseveltJan 30, 2022 10:00 pm - Few of us remember Franklin D. Roosevelt, and for those who do, he is a pale memory. Such is the claim time inevitably makes on even the greatest who walk among us. Roos...
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Maybe it's time to consider a permanent site for OlympicsJan 30, 2022 12:00 am - At the first modern Summer Olympic Games in Greece in 1896, Greece's King George I made a modest proposal. Why not provide a permanent site for the games at Olympia, Gre...
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Lake Forest resident seeks to unseat Brad Schneider in 10th Congressional DistrictJan 28, 2022 12:00 am - A Lake Forest resident has announced he'll try to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider of Deerfield. Joe Severino, the founder and president of a private inves...
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North Barrington woman seeks to unseat U.S. Rep. Mike QuigleyJan 28, 2022 12:00 am - A North Barrington woman who ran for a local school board seat last year has turned her sights on Congress. Malgorzata McGonigal has filed paperwork with the Federal Ele...
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Next two years will be true barometer of Biden's successJan 28, 2022 12:00 am - It's been about a year since Joe Biden took office as President and though it's still too early to draw firm conclusions about his performance, it's not too early to dis...
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The weaponization of #MeTooJan 28, 2022 12:00 am - The nasty emails have started to come in, as I knew they would. "Why are you representing a rapist," they begin, and forget about all that Clarence Darrow stuff. "Why yo...