There’s no way around it: The economy was nasty last year.
It was lousy for job seekers. It was wretched for businesses. And according to political fundraisers, it was a downright drag on donors.
Or was it? Read more...
There’s no way around it: The economy was nasty last year.
It was lousy for job seekers. It was wretched for businesses. And according to political fundraisers, it was a downright drag on donors.
Or was it? Read more...
As the state’s budget crisis comes closer to creating another transit doomsday in Chicago, the Regional Transportation Authority illustrated just how drastic new and sudden cuts to the system could be.
Without any money from the state by the end of May, CTA, Metra and Pace’s operations budgets would have to be cut 20 percent in June — and probably more, according to RTA officials. By contrast, February’s CTA service cuts for the were the result of a 30 percent drop in funding.
While the RTA has known about the problem for some time — the state already owes them $280 million — they haven’t asked CTA, Metra and Pace to create contingency plans yet. Read more...
When pollster John Anzalone thinks about Illinois, he can reach for his Rolodex and call friends like David Axelrod and Illinois Senate President John Cullerton.
But relationships aside, his Alabama-based consulting firm Anzalone Liszt Research has another card it can play.
“Winning races — that’s a pretty good marketing tool right there,” Anzalone says. Read more...
An independent survey of 1,200 likely Illinois voters also shows that Quinn would have a greater advantage over Brady, a downstate businessman and state senator, than Dillard, a suburban Chicago state senator.
Victory Research conducted the poll from Thursday through Sunday, starting on the day that Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes conceded to Quinn the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Read more...
The Republicans may be ready to eat him alive. But it seems that Pat Quinn's biggest problems are still in his own party.
This morning, just after Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes conceded the Democratic nomination for governor, Quinn faced questions about another Democrat, Scott Lee Cohen.
Cohen won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor on Tuesday. But since then, news reporters have resurrected a 2005 incident in which a woman called police, accusing him of domestic abuse. Read more...
