Articles filed under Politics
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Quinn signs military support expansion planJul 04, 2014 1:01 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Pat Quinn has approved an expansion of a program that assists military families in Illinois during conflicts or wars. The Chicago Democrat on Thursda...
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Atanus disputes email announcing withdrawal from 9th district raceJul 04, 2014 1:00 am - Susanne Atanus denied she sent an email Friday announcing her withdrawal from the 9th Congressional District race. “There are people who are creative who can make it loo...
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Corporations are people? It's a real legal conceptJul 03, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - There may be more to that "we the people" notion than you thought. These are boom times for the concept of "corporate personhood." Corporations are people...
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Text of COD president's emailJul 03, 2014 1:01 am - This is the text of the email College of DuPage President Robert Breuder sent to the board of trustees on May 9 concerning the school's pursuit of $20 million in state f...
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Quinn halts IDOT political hiringJul 03, 2014 1:01 am - Reacting to persistent problems at a state agency, Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday ordered a moratorium on political hiring at the Illinois Department of Transportation and d...
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Madigan won't defend Lake County election commissionJul 03, 2014 1:01 am - Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office will drop its defense of a controversial plan to take election-running powers from the Lake County clerk and create a new...
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Women on Supreme Court blast Wheaton College rulingJul 03, 2014 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — In a short, unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court said Wheaton College, at least temporarily, does not have to comply even with compromise provisions in the l...
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Editorial: Frat party politics bad for IllinoisJul 02, 2014 11:00 pm - First there was Quinnochio. Then the guys in chicken suits. And now fake emails. You'd think it was pledge week at Delta House rather than election season in Illinois. W...
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Quinn wins backing from teachers whose pensions he cutJul 02, 2014 1:01 am - Months after Gov. Pat Quinn signed a controversial plan to cut its members' retirement benefits, the state's largest teachers union is backing him for re-election. The I...
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Local clergy hand out condoms at Aurora Hobby Lobby storeJul 02, 2014 1:01 am - A small group of clergy and representatives from Planned Parenthood handed out condoms Wednesday evening in front of a Hobby Lobby store in Aurora in response to this we...