Articles filed under Politics
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Sleepy Hollow to ask voters for 82% tax hikeJan 20, 2015 12:01 am - Sleepy Hollow again will be seeking a roughly 82 percent property tax increase on April 7 after a similar request failed last November by a 3 to 1 margin. Officials say...
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Pyke: Transportation agencies wading through Rauner's ordersJan 19, 2015 4:30 am - Is Gov. Bruce Rauner's word law or are growing pains emerging as he and a massive state bureaucracy come to grips? Sworn in last week, Rauner has vowed to put the state ...
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Hultgren highlights human trafficking problem with speech guestJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren will take an advocate who fights human trafficking to Tuesday's State of the Union address, and Sen. Dick Durbin's guest will be a veteran injur...
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Munger to speak Saturday in SchaumburgJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - New Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger will be the guest speaker at the Schaumburg Township Republican Organization's monthly breakfast meeting at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, Ja...
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Reports: Duckworth will consider Senate runJan 19, 2015 12:01 am - U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a Hoffman Estates Democrat, is weighing a run for U.S. Senate, reports say. If nominated as the Democrat for the 2016 Senate race, Duckworth w...
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Lombard library director's goal: New libraryJan 18, 2015 6:45 am - From the time she interviewed for her job last year, Barbara Kruser made it clear she wants a new library built in Lombard. "I really want to increase our programming, b...
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What Bruce Rauner can do without the LegislatureJan 18, 2015 6:30 am - On the evening of Gov. Bruce Rauner's inauguration, the pomp had given way to a rollicking concert in Springfield's large convention center. The heavily scripted ceremon...
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Obama to seek tax hikes for rich to lift middle classJan 18, 2015 3:01 am - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will call for increasing taxes on the wealthiest Americans by raising the capital gains rate and eliminating a tax break on inheritan...
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Hebdo cover continues to roil Muslim worldJan 17, 2015 12:01 am - CAIRO - The famed French weekly Charlie Hebdo has continued to draw a somewhat contradictory reaction across the Muslim world. Many Muslims have expressed disgust at the...
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Local legislators invite teachers, students to State of the UnionJan 16, 2015 12:01 am - Local Democratic members of Congress are trying to highlight President Barack Obama's education message with their picks of guests to take to the State of the Union addr...