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Illinois Senate Democrats are hoping to win bipartisan support for a partial government spending plan.The proposal would release more than $800 million…
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There are reasons for legalizing industrial hemp.Might pot and ditch weed help ease the state's financial crisis and boost its farm economy?Sponsors of…
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Ten Republican senators voted for at least one bill in the grand bargain. We asked all of them about Gov. Bruce Rauner's role in stopping them from going…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner is pushing to break off a couple pieces from the Illinois Senate’s so-called grand bargain. Democrats say that’s a bad omen for the…
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The Illinois Senate is still negotiating a compromise to finally rectify the state's historic failure to enact a budget. The proposal has changed a lot in…
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Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago in 1947, and raised in the suburbs. Sixty-eight years later, she’s making history as the first woman to be nominated…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has always said schools are his top priority. Last year, he vetoed the budget except for schools. In the stopgap plan negotiated by…
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Legislators who've been privately working for the past month to craft a temporary budget have one drafted, but that doesn't make it a done deal.The strain…
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Billions of dollars in cuts are part of a possible budget for next year. So are higher taxes. Illinois built up a deficit over the years; the current…
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Billions of dollars in cuts are part of a possible budget for next year. So are higher taxes.Illinois built up a deficit over the years; the current…