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There are two primary challenges to legislative plans to regulate homeschooling in Illinois.
When you care for someone with a disability or work in any capacity of providing service to that community, it’s impossible to become anything but intimately familiar with the way the state and federal government manage agencies.
“We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.” Cortland Town Trustee Randi Olson included that quote in her statement about a threat made against her political opponent, state Rep. Jeff Keicher, R-Sycamore.
Shaking people from closely held beliefs is difficult, especially when trusted sources deliver reinforcement. Broad data helps us see beyond narrow personal experiences, but only when we choose to look.
Out of 49 total vice presidents, only two were politically affiliated with Illinois at the time of their election.
Sam McCann’s career in public service may not be over.
At the first of several public hearings about plans to create the Metropolitan Mobility Authority by consolidating CTA, Metra and Pace which took place July 9 in Chicago, leaders addressed what they call the “fiscal cliff.”
We don’t need to hear the jury’s verdict on Madigan and McClain to see how even a full conviction won’t sufficiently change course in Springfield.
We have survived another NASCAR in Chicago weekend.
When it comes to national political conventions in Illinois, two top every historian’s list: the 1860 Republican convention, from which ascended the political career of one Abraham Lincoln, and the 1968 Democratic event, marred by violent clashes between protestors and police.
“Germane to its authority.” That phrase is important to keep in mind as McHenry County Board members consider new rules.
There are dates and times – but not locations – for public hearings on plans to create the Metropolitan Mobility Authority by consolidating CTA, Metra and Pace.
The best advice thus far is to avoid taking any broad data or individual incidents as applicable to the entire state. Hopefully, we’re all still learning.
At this early stage, the only safe prediction about the legal fallout from Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding federal corruption law is that it will be far-reaching.
Did Invest In Kids die so Illinois Gives could live?