Articles filed under Politics
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The justice retiresFeb 02, 2022 12:00 am - It was the spring of 1979 when I got a call from a former professor offering me a job. I was fresh out of law school, clerking for Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. ...
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'Most prepared we've ever been': Rep. Lauren Underwood has big fundraising lead in 14th DistrictFeb 02, 2022 12:00 am - Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Naperville has a significant advantage over her Republican challengers when it comes to campaign fundraising, new documents show...
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Constable: Ronald Reagan wanted Black History Month to teach historic struggleFeb 01, 2022 4:15 am - Black History Month, which starts today, gives us the chance to binge-watch Sidney Poitier movies, take in August Wilson's powerful "Gem of the Ocean" at Chicago's Goodm...
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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...