Articles filed under Politics
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DuPage senior meal program could come back, for nowApr 28, 2016 1:00 am - Meals at community centers for about 1,000 low-income senior citizens in DuPage County that were cut in the face of the state budget stalemate could resume as early as M...
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Hastert's state lawmaker pension checks continue, for nowApr 28, 2016 1:00 am - State officials took away former U.S. Speaker Dennis Hastert's teacher pension the day he was sentenced, but his $28,026 annual benefit from his time as a state lawmaker...
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U.S. Attorney: Hastert a "broken, humiliated man"Apr 27, 2016 1:00 am - U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon said U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's "legacy is gone and in its place is a broken, humiliated man." "That is as it should be," the pr...
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Hastert loses teacher pensionApr 27, 2016 1:00 am - One of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's pension checks isn't in the mail. The longtime suburban lawmaker has lost his $16,623 annual pension from his time as a...
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Primary set records in suburban Cook CountyApr 27, 2016 1:00 am - Early voting, mail ballots and the total number of pre-election day ballots cast in suburban Cook County for the March primary all set records, according to a post-prima...
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Advocates push for abuse-deterrent painkillersApr 26, 2016 1:00 am - Anti-heroin advocates Tuesday pushed for legislation that would require Illinois insurance companies to cover prescription opioids that they say deter abuse by being dif...
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Patriot Act that Hastert heralded helped bring his downfallApr 25, 2016 1:00 am - In the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, House Speaker Dennis Hastert “led the charge” in getting passage of the Patriot Act, former President George W. Bush commented a few...
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Interactive timeline of Dennis Hastert's careerApr 25, 2016 1:00 am - Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert faces a sentencing hearing in his federal hush money case Wednesday. Click through this interactive timeline to track his path f...
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Illinois Supreme Court will hear arguments in LisleApr 25, 2016 1:00 am - The Illinois Supreme Court will hear oral arguments at a school for the first time in history when justices hear cases at Benedictine University in Lisle next month. Two...
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Local college layoffs stand despite state budget progressApr 22, 2016 1:00 am - Layoffs announced by two suburban community colleges in recent weeks won't be reversed in spite of state officials' move Friday to approve an "emergency" budget for coll...