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Property taxes are excessively high and oppressive and the legislature should do something about it.Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner, explaining his call for a…
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Is Illinois still a “blue” state?Will Mike Madigan work with a Republican governor?Those were among the “insightful” questions being posed by national…
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That mighty “whoosh!” you’ll be hearing in a few days will be a collective sigh of relief from Illinoisans as one of the nastiest election seasons in…
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Unprecedented.An often overused term, prone to hyperbole, but a spot-on summary of last month's votes for the 98th General Assembly, for never before in…
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Is Mike Madigan the Darth Vader of Illinois government, a sort of Dark Lord responsible for all the woes besetting the Prairie State, from its lowered…
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Could it have been the scorching, record-setting heat besetting Illinois in July? Or maybe fevered anticipation of the chance to renew his downstate bona…
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“All newspaper editorial writers ever do,” the late Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Murray Kempton once observed, “is come down from the hills after the…
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Ever the showman, Rod Blagojevich sought the spotlight with a basketful of grandiose proposals, half-baked notions and — unfortunately for the former…
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Declaring a state goal “that all people be free from poverty,” Illinois four years ago created a special panel charged with developing a strategic plan to…