Articles filed under Politics
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Guest columnist Lucy Chang Evans: Women are making progress, but we still have far to goMar 30, 2022 1:00 am - By Lucy Chang Evans Guest columnist It is hard to believe that women did not have the right to vote until 1920. I was born in 1972 and grew up completely unaware that th...
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Lawmakers pass ban on withholding college transcriptsMar 30, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Graduates from Illinois colleges and universities may soon be able to access their transcripts even if they still owe money to the school they attended. Th...
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Guest columnist Carole Medal: Library exhibit features close-up look at fascinating women in local historyMar 30, 2022 1:00 am - An exhibit at the Gail Borden Public Library's main library in Elgin is titled "Elgin: A Women's City Without Many Pictures." Honoring women from yesterday and today, th...
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Clemency hearings indefinitely postponedMar 29, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Chicago attorney Alan Mills has a client on the Prisoner Review Board's clemency docket in April. His hearing has been indefinitely postponed because there...
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Syndicated columnist Susan Estrich: Judge Jackson and Georgetown DayMar 29, 2022 1:00 am - President Joe Biden's nominee for the United States Supreme Court came under fire from Republicans at her confirmation hearings for, of all things, the curriculum of a p...
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Guest columnist Frank Splitt: Woke extremism counter productive to the goals it promotesMar 28, 2022 1:00 am - Extremists in both the Democratic and Republican parties divide America, as evidenced by the divisive behavior of the anti-fascist groups in the antifa movement on the f...
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Prisoner Review Board member resigns before Senate confirmation voteMar 28, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - A Prisoner Review Board member facing Senate confirmation submitted his resignation on Monday. Oreal James resigned by way of a letter to Gov. J.B. Pritzke...
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Schneider improperly received 2 homeowner exemptions but has rectified error, officials sayMar 28, 2022 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider improperly received homeowner exemptions on two properties at the same time for one year, but he recently paid the balance of what he should hav...
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Lawmakers form Assyrian Caucus to address challenges facing communityMar 28, 2022 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois lawmakers have formed the Illinois Assyrian Caucus in an effort to help them understand and learn about challenges facing the Assyrian community a...
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For GOP, a rock star and a groupieMar 27, 2022 1:00 am - As he seeks to fill an opening U.S. Senate seat, Rep. Mo Brooks boasted he wanted "to fire Mitch McConnell," the Senate minority leader whom Brooks, an Alabama Republica...