June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
In 2007, for example, Senate Republicans jeeringly called former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's call for a special session on the budget a “teacher per day” folly because the daily cost of bringing members back was roughly the same amount as a schoolteacher's ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Mayor Daley on Thursday all but endorsed Pat Quinn in 2010, arguing that the accidental governor has done “a very good job so far” and has the heart, soul and passion for the office he inherited when the now-indicted Rod Blagojevich was ousted.
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The freebie is part of a deal negotiated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in exchange for giving the company extended time for paid parking during the week. Sarah Kraus, who stopped in Bronzeville to visit her daughter Sunday, is happy with the change. “It should ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
The former Chicago alderman, 59, was one of six aldermen indicted as part of the Silver Shovel investigation in the mid-90s. This time Medrano was arrested in a 2011 FBI sting, and accused of attempting to bribe a Los Angeles County official in ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Daley, a former White House chief of staff and Cabinet member and brother of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, accused the Democratic governor of vacillating in support of a variety of proposals rather than sticking to a plan. "That's not the way you lead ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Robert Sorich, former patronage chief to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, leaves federal court with his attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin, left, in Chicago after he was convicted of two counts of mail fraud in a scheme to load the city payroll with ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Pat Quinn speaks to reporters in his office at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, promising a quick signature on legislation to regulate hydraulic fracturing. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File). CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
While huge problems remain with federal sequestration, with cuts coming in vital services that are likely to generate plenty of political heat if they come to pass, the Illinois General Assembly, due to an inability to compromise, may have to resort to ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. | Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for another monthlong extension of time to decide whether to appeal a lower court order allowing citizens to carry concealed guns. Documents filed late Friday ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
What do you think of Chicago Teacher's Union president Karen Lewis? I don't have a problem with Karen personally. She's doing her job well—too well. We have to understand that the agenda of union bosses is not the agenda of taxpayers. When the union ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed into law the nation's strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling. "This new law will unlock the potential for thousands of jobs in Southern Illinois and ensure that our ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
Democratic candidate for governor Bill Daley excoriated Gov. Pat Quinn for a lack of leadership over the state's pension crisis and criticized potential rival Lisa Madigan for not providing a legal opinion on the constitutionality of possible solutions.
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
On May 22, the Chicago Board of Education in the US state of Illinois voted to close 50 public schools including about 10 percent of all elementary schools, and to transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings. Officials said Mayor Rahm ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
"We don't want this to be your typical flying saucer sports facility," said Jim Reilly, CEO of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, the state-city agency that owns the convention center. "Most arenas have blank walls toward the outside," he ...
June 18, 2013 @ 7:01 AM
That testimony came from the first witness called as prosecutors began to make their case against the onetime top aide to former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger. Prosecutors say Oglesby, along with Stroger's childhood friend and onetime chief ...
