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Lawmakers advance $1.8 billion unemployment fund bailoutDec 01, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - On the final day of their fall veto session, Illinois lawmakers on Thursday advanced a pair of bills that would infuse $1.8 billion into the state's unempl...
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State lawmakers pass measure limiting state investment in Russian assetsNov 30, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois House gave final passage Wednesday to a bill aimed at prohibiting state investment in assets tied to Russia and Belarus in retaliation for the...
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Lake County prosecutors aim to keep murder, sex crime defendants jailed after bail ends Jan. 1Nov 30, 2022 12:00 am - The Lake County state's attorney's office has begun the process of keeping dozens of jailed defendants, including those charged with murder and sex offenses, behind bars...
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Appellate panel reverses contempt citations against DCFS directorNov 30, 2022 12:00 am - An appellate court on Wednesday reversed several contempt of court citations filed in recent months against Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smit...
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Man pleads guilty to trying to set movie theater on fireNov 29, 2022 12:00 am - A man who tried to set an Oak Brook movie theater auditorium on fire has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 15 years in prison. David Ferguson, 33, of Chicago pleaded ...
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Bipartisan state plan to pay down remaining unemployment debt aimed at reducing employers' taxesNov 29, 2022 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - In an effort to save businesses nearly a billion dollars in unemployment taxes, lawmakers on Tuesday announced a bipartisan plan to use the state's budget ...
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Tim Degnan, former state senator and Daley adviser, dies at 82Nov 28, 2022 12:00 am - Tim Degnan, a former state senator and longtime top adviser to former Mayor Richard M. Daley, died last week at his home in Oak Brook. He was 82. In a 1995 Sun-Times pro...
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Indicted Chicago Alderman Edward Burke won't run againNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - An extraordinary era in Chicago politics ended quietly on Monday - and not in the way the city council dean once predicted. Indicted Alderman Edward Burke chose not to s...
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Lightfoot files paperwork to run for reelectionNov 28, 2022 12:00 am - After turning in her nominating petitions Monday morning - a stack of signatures nearly half as tall as she is - Mayor Lori Lightfoot flexed a bit as she explained her d...
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2 killed, 10 injured in 8-vehicle crash on South SideNov 23, 2022 12:00 am - Two people were killed and 10 others injured in an eight-vehicle crash Wednesday on Chicago's South Side. About 5 p.m., firefighters responded to 87th Street and Cottage...