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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin is criticizing the Republican field of candidates governor for their stances on low-income workers and the unemployed.It's an…
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The U.S. House is set to vote on a new farm bill Wednesday, after House and Senate negotiators earlier this week agreed on compromise legislation…
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Though farm bill talks heated up this week in Washington, key legislators emerged from negotiations Thursday disappointed and predicted there would be no…
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Denny Hastert wasn't the Speaker of the U.S. House during the last government shutdown, but he was an Illinois Congressman in 1995 and '96. He told Amanda…
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The federal government's partial shutdown is worrying some Illinois state workers and retirees. That's because recipients of various state health…
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The election in Illinois’ 8th Congressional District was defined by personalities, by national ideological and demographic trends and by political…
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One of your own as speaker of the U.S. House, the most powerful individual on Capitol Hill? It doesn't get any better than that.Illinois enjoyed that…
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Someone with a decent arm could stand in Springfield and throw a ball from one of the city's congressional districts over another district and into a…
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House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's January 17 appearance before the news media spoke volumes about the troubles facing the Republican majority in Congress.…
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We open this eighth annual arts issue with a question. Several, really. None easily answered. The essential one is this: Are we ceding our right to decide…