The newly-named chief of investigations for the county medical examiner's office is under fire for allegedly discriminating against white officers he oversees as Dolton police chief. (WLS-AM)
The troubled President's Office of Employment Training will be overseen by state Rep. Art Turner. (Tribune)
The confusing world of Cook County property taxes: Designed to befuddle. (SouthtownStar)
Gov. Pat Quinn has chosen Sheila Simon, daughter of the late Democratic U.S. Senator Paul Simon, as his running mate.
Quinn announced his pick this afternoon, despite rumors that state Sen. Susan Garrett was his favorite, and a late boost for Rep. Art Turner. His announcement confirmed rumors swirling last night that Simon was, in fact, his top choice.
Simon, a law professor at Southern Illinois University, brings the downstate clout Quinn and fellow Democrats yearned for in the nominee. She is a former member of the Carbondale City Council and serves on Quinn's Illinois
Reform Commission. Read more...
Illinois General Assembly quickly passes pension reforms
State legislators swiftly approved a bill that would raise the retirement age for future government employees and force them to wait longer to collect on their pensions.
The bill, passed last night in the Senate after it sailed throught the House, would not affect anyone who is currently in the retirement system. Read more...
Gov. Pat Quinn's first choice for lieutenant governor has turned him down.
Tammy Duckworth, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and formerly Illinois' VA director, called Quinn today and asked that her name be removed from consideration. NBC Chicago first reported the phone call.
Duckworth's refusal to join Quinn's ticket puts the Democratic governor in a tough spot. Read more...
He's picking a white woman over a black man.
That's how leading advocates in Chicago's black communities have begun to frame Gov. Pat Quinn's recruitment of Tammy Duckworth over Art Turner.
Duckworth, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and previously the director of Illinois' VA department, has become the leading contender for the nomination after Scott Lee Cohen, a pawnbroker with a troubled past, dropped his nomination under party pressure. Read more...
