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Tag: budget impasse
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How Governor Rauner is weaponizing the Illinois tax hike
He’s emerged from the budget crisis with a convenient cudgel in the run-up to the 2018 election.
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Illinois House approves income tax hike, spending plan, and other Chicago news
Also, Trump has reportedly tapped 48-year-old John Lausch as the U.S. attorney for Chicago.
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Where were the Illinois gubernatorial candidates when we really needed them?
It’s good to see Democrats moving to the left as the gubernatorial primary ramps up—but what have they done for you lately?
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Rauner has made the budget impasse his favorite campaign weapon
No matter what Illinois Democrats do to dislodge the budget stalemate, the governor will blast them.
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Rauner calls ten-day special legislative session before the end of the fiscal year, and other Chicago news
Also, Cook County will stop prosecuting some traffic offenses due to lack of resources.
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Black Lives Matters sues Chicago Police Department over reform consent decree, and other news
Also, Lin-Manuel Miranda might star in a Chicago Hamilton performance during the last week of August.
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Politico: Illinois is ‘America’s failed state,’ and other Chicago news
Also, early Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Glenne Headly passed away.
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Aldermen agree to install 30 more surveillance cameras around Wrigley Field after Manchester bombing, and other Chicago news
Also, Toni Preckwinkle will run for reelection as Cook County Board president next year.
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Conde Nast Traveler names Chicago the best restaurant city in the U.S., and other news
Also, there’s still no resolution to the state’s school funding crisis.
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Alderman Carrie Austin slams Rauner for Chicago Public Schools’ financial crisis, and other news
Also, tickets to the June 3 U2 concert at Soldier Field are the most in-demand in the nation on Stubhub.
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Cullerton in open letter to Rauner: ‘It’s time for action’ on the budget, and other Chicago news
Also, Schaumburg wants to compete with the Chicago theater scene.
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Food trucks could be coming to O’Hare and Midway, and other Chicago news
Also, the Illinois GOP hosted a fund-raiser in honor of Governor Bruce Rauner with tickets up to $40,000 Thursday night.
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Kim Foxx working to release nonviolent offenders who can’t afford bond, and other Chicago news
Also, Chance the Rapper and Governor Rauner rescheduled their meeting for Friday.
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More than 73 percent of the CPD’s 16,500 new applicants are nonwhite, and other Chicago news
Also, a 29-year-old political novice from Skokie is running for governor in 2018.