Articles filed under Politics
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Build safety into infrastructure billAug 03, 2021 1:00 am - According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, about 1,166 people died in motor vehicle crashes in 2020, an approximate 15 percent increase over 2019. Sadly, it...
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Pritzker signs immigrant protection billsAug 02, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed four bills into law Monday aimed at protecting the state's immigrant and refugee populations, saying they will help make Illinois...
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Blagojevich sues for right to run againAug 02, 2021 1:00 am - Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich returned Monday to the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, where he filed a lawsuit challenging a state Senate resolution that prevents him from runn...
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Immigration is our universal American storyAug 01, 2021 1:00 am - Last month, a federal judge in Houston ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy was "illegal," which halted accepting incoming applications. I was in...
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How the left has used COVID-19 to bankrupt the United StatesJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - I have never bought the conspiracy theories that COVID-19 was a diabolical political plot to undermine the country. But what is apparent with each passing week is that t...
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Without shift on tax policy, pensions and structural deficit threaten crisis for stateJul 30, 2021 1:00 am - Consider everything that feeds the creation of public policy. There are lobbyists, rallies and marches. Don't forget charged rhetoric, clever spin, campaign contribution...
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Lawsuit over redistricting amendedJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Attorneys for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund have filed an amended complaint in federal court in a lawsuit that seeks to block a n...
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Former CIA director, Army Gen. Petraeus to headline Judson World Leaders ForumJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - Former CIA director and retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus will headline Judson University's World Leaders Forum this fall. Rather than being held at the Elgin school...
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Speech suppression is habit-formingJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - Speech suppression is a habit that the Biden administration and its liberal supporters can't seem to break. Many staffers may have picked up the habit in their student y...
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The search for truth on Jan. 6 brings tearsJul 29, 2021 1:00 am - I don't need a hearing to tell me what happened on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, which was stormed by an armed mob. But the nation needs a reckoning on that deadly day. It...