Articles filed under Politics
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Durbin in suburbs: GOP tax plan would hurt middle-income familiesNov 06, 2017 12:00 am - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said middle-income Illinois families would be hit especially hard by the House Republicans' proposed tax plan and urged congressional lawmakers to ...
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Editorial: Illinois legislators need sexual harassment trainingNov 04, 2017 2:00 pm - Rumors have abounded for years that the atmosphere around the state Capitol in Springfield is one of, shall we say, excess. From that standpoint, it was not all that sur...
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How social media made it easy for Americans to get playedNov 04, 2017 7:20 am - Americans are getting our first glimpse of how we got played. On Wednesday, Congress released some of the 3,000 Facebook ads and Twitter accounts created by Russian oper...
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Analysis: What is Qiwi, and how is it related to Russian election ads?Nov 04, 2017 7:16 am - Representatives from big-name tech companies Facebook, Google and Twitter faced a grilling on Capitol Hill this week over questions about how Russian operatives were abl...
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Ex-DNC head Brazile considered replacing Clinton with BidenNov 03, 2017 11:00 pm - Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the party's 2016 presidential n...
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Glenbard East students march to support DACANov 03, 2017 1:00 am - Dozens of Glenbard East students marched Friday near their high school to call for preservation of a federal program protecting young immigrants from deportation. Jimmy ...
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How many families actually own half-million dollar homes?Nov 03, 2017 1:00 am - Of the many changes to the U.S. tax code proposed in House Republicans' plan released this week, few are proving to be as contentious as the cut to the mortgage interest...
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Roskam says new Republican tax plan is good for middle classNov 02, 2017 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam praised the new Republican tax plan - estimated to cost trillions over a decade and be the biggest change to the tax code in years - as tax relief...
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State senator: 27 mystery harassment complaints against state lawmakersNov 01, 2017 1:00 am - State Senate President John Cullerton has dropped Sen. Ira Silverstein from his Democratic leadership team a day after a victim rights advocate launched explosive sexual...
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Americans are really stressing out about the nation's futureNov 01, 2017 1:00 am - For those lying awake at night worried about health care, the economy, and an overall feeling of divide between you and your neighbors, there's at least one source of co...