Articles filed under Politics
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Trump vs. Clinton: A debate fact-check cheat sheetSep 24, 2016 1:00 am - Presidential candidates rarely come to the debates with fresh facts. Instead, they rely on claims that have been scattered in their stump speeches for many months — clai...
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Report: Cook County should eliminate unincorporated areasSep 23, 2016 5:30 am - Cook County should eventually eliminate all of its unincorporated areas to reduce taxes and improve services to residents in those neighborhoods, according to a new repo...
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Algonquin-Lake in the Hills fire district to try again for tax hikeSep 21, 2016 1:00 am - The Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District is again seeking a property tax hike after an identical request was rejected last spring. A binding referendum q...
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Rauner meets with bomb technicians, says no imminent threat hereSep 19, 2016 1:00 am - Gov. Bruce Rauner said at a gathering of bomb technicians Monday that there are no imminent threats in Illinois following the recent bombings in New York City and New Je...
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How female White House staffers cracked the code of powerSep 18, 2016 7:12 am - When President Barack Obama took office, two-thirds of his top aides were men. Women complained of having to elbow their way into important meetings. And when they got i...
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District 214 hosting discussion of presidential raceSep 18, 2016 1:00 am - Daily Herald columnist Kerry Lester, Chicago Sun-Times investigative reporter Dan Mihalopoulos, former Illinois Republican Party chairman Pat Brady and Democratic consul...
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Editorial: What Mayor Rooney needs to remember in SpringfieldSep 17, 2016 2:00 pm - Tom Rooney's always been one of our favorite suburban mayors. Pleasant guy; wide-eyed; boyish enthusiasm; seems genuinely open to other opinions, not just his own; an en...
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Ted Cruz's internet crusade gains steam in U.S. funding debateSep 17, 2016 7:21 am - Another year, another standoff over a possible government shutdown, and Ted Cruz is back in the center of the action - this time over who controls internet domain names....
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Judge rejects ballot question on merging Round Lake-area townsSep 16, 2016 1:00 am - Voters won't decide in November if three Round Lake-area villages should be merged into one after a court ruling Friday. An attempt by a grass-roots organization to plac...
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Sandack paid extortion money after 'inappropriate online conversations'Sep 16, 2016 1:00 am - Former state Rep. Ron Sandack wired money to the Philippines to try to avoid disclosure of "inappropriate online conversations" he'd had with a woman who asked to be his...