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More than ninety cases of human trafficking in Illinois have been reported so far this year. Gov. Bruce Rauner recently signed legislation about efforts…
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Chicago writer Jamie Kalven focuses on patterns of police abuse and impunity in Chicago. He heard about an attempted cover up of the details in the fatal…
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Just a Dollar: Not Since 2009 has the State Allocated Funds for Homeless Education -Well, There's $1For Kaleyah Wesley, thoughts of her family’s life in a Chicago homeless shelter made it difficult to focus on school, particularly in math, the subject…
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Don Fullerton, a finance professor at the University of Illinois and a former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, served as…
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Illinois is in a funk. It’s clear.Last month, a Gallup survey found by a wide margin Illinoisans are less trusting of their state government than…
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Odds are, if a child doesn’t experience good parenting, schooling in early development programs and care for mental illness or other health care needs, he…
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After years of inaction on changes to the state's employee pension systems, legislative leaders say they have hammered out a deal that could be presented…
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The Congressman's Fabulous Fall: He's Not Even the First Congressman from IL to Go to Federal PrisonHis predecessor in the U.S. House, Mel Reynolds, went to jail in the mid-’90s, being convicted of bank fraud and having sex with a 16-year-old girl. But…
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Richard Calica’s Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is beset with problems. One Chicago Tribune investigation this spring found that…