Articles filed under Politics
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Steans to resign from state SenateJan 20, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Sen. Heather Steans, a Chicago Democrat, plans to resign at the end of the month, after a 12-year tenure in the Illinois Senate. "It's been the privilege o...
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Constable: Americans still have stress, even with hope and healingJan 20, 2021 12:00 am - The peaceful transition of power took place Wednesday during a devastating pandemic with outgoing 45th President Donald Trump's departure accompanied by the Village Peop...
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Hollywood returns: Bruce, Garth, Gaga, J.Lo headline Biden inaugurationJan 19, 2021 10:00 pm - A full-throated, supremely confident Lady Gaga belted out the national anthem at President Joe Biden's inauguration in a very Gaga way - with flamboyance, fashion and pa...
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Berman steps down as North Aurora village presidentJan 19, 2021 12:00 am - Dale Berman resigned Monday as North Aurora's village president because he now serves as a county board member. The village board made Trustee Mark Gaffino acting villag...
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The bills that failed during the legislature's short sessionJan 18, 2021 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The 101st Illinois General Assembly took historic action by passing legislation to end cash bail prior to electing a Black House speaker for the first time...
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On this MLK Day, we must acknowledge the racial injustices that remainJan 18, 2021 12:00 am - Violent police killings of Black people last year exposed the deep, festering wounds of racism in America. The callous murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard ...
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India's experience has lessons for U.S. democracyJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - The frenzied mob trashing the Capitol reminded me instantly of the mob that destroyed a historic mosque, called the Babri Masjid, in the northern Indian city of Ayodhya,...
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Schakowsky will ask House to censure downstate representative over Hitler remarksJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky said she plans to introduce a measure in the U.S. House to censure downstate Rep. Mary Miller for comments she made about Adolf Hitler outside t...
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Things I never told Sheldon AdelsonJan 17, 2021 12:00 am - The knives were out for me in January 2017 when I arrived in Washington as the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. You see, I worked for what sco...
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Stava-Murray restores Facebook page that went dark after 'viral' post on police billJan 15, 2021 12:00 am - A Facebook page maintained by Downers Grove Democratic state Rep. Anne Stava-Murray as a forum for her legislative work that went dark Thursday night has been reactivate...