Articles filed under Politics
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Holocaust survivors: Refugee travel ban recalls their own experienceFeb 02, 2017 12:00 am - Holocaust survivors compared President Donald Trump's travel restrictions aimed at refugees from seven primarily Muslim countries to U.S. immigration practices that prev...
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Rauner will urge Trump administration against full Obamacare repealFeb 02, 2017 12:00 am - Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner told members of the Daily Herald editorial board Thursday that an immediate repeal of the federal Affordable Care Act would put Illinois in ...
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Durbin, Duckworth want feds to keep monitoring railroad, make CN pay for underpassFeb 01, 2017 12:00 am - Both of Illinois' senators joined the village of Barrington and the Illinois Department of Transportation this week in asking the nation's top railway regulator to once ...
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Saved by entry to U.S. as refugee, suburban man speaks out against banFeb 01, 2017 12:00 am - For decades, it was a secret tucked away and never talked about by Ralph Rehbock or his parents. Then, Rehbock's children began digging into family history. "Nothing, a...
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Constable: McHenry County teen fiddles away her political stressJan 31, 2017 4:30 am - During another tense weekend of fear, anger, confusion and protests fueled by the Trump Administration's travel restrictions on people entering the United States from se...
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Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch for Supreme CourtJan 31, 2017 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge with a writer's flair, to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a selection expected...
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Garland back on D.C. bench as Trump makes Supreme Court pickJan 31, 2017 12:00 am - Donald Trump nominated federal appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia's replacement on the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, passing ove...
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Political conflict leads Hersey student to write poemJan 30, 2017 10:00 pm - Emily Dattilo, a 17-year-old senior at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, began writing poetry when she was 5 years old. "Lately, I've taken to writing free v...
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Many DuPage voters will face tax hike questions in AprilJan 30, 2017 4:33 am - DuPage County voters on April 4 will be asked to weigh in on referendum questions from 16 taxing districts, including schools, villages and townships. Most will ask vote...
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Hundreds protest for immigrants at O'HareJan 29, 2017 12:00 am - Suburbanites and Chicagoans, Jews and Muslims, students and businesspeople packed O'Hare International Airport's international terminal over the weekend two separate tim...