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New Law Allows No-Excuse Absentee Voting; Now It's Even Easier to Vote in Illinois

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:13 -0600

Beginning with the Feb. 2, 2010 statewide primary election, Illinois voters will be able to request and vote a mail-in absentee ballot without specifying a reason for the absence from the polling place on Election Day.

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Illinois has the most black nursing homes listed among the nation's least safe

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:30:32 -0600

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Illinois Campaign Finance Reform: As Good as it Gets?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:40:52 -0500

Is campaign finance reform much like the Pursuit of Happyness Rubik's Cube game? Solving one problem creates another? Chicago Sun Times columnist Carol Marin asks could state legislators have done better?

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Illinois Forclosures Slow, But up 54% From Last Year

Wed, 13 May 2009 19:19:28 -0500

Some 13,647 Illinois homes received a foreclosure filing in April, a drop of more than 11 percent since March, but filings still were 54 percent higher than they were a year ago, according to data rel

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Mark Kirk Tax Freedom Day Email Misleading

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:53:58 -0500

NBC News reports that this is the earliest Tax Freedom Day since 1967....

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The Jackson $5 million? :Gov. Blagojevich

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:41:47 -0500

The Sun-Times has learned that 2 members of Chicago's Indian community sent word to Blagojevich's camp that Jesse Jackson Jr. would raise $5 million in exchange for Obama's Senate seat.

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Sun-Times argues that, compared to our neighbors, Chicago is a tax haven

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:53:31 -0500

Ridiculous editorial: "Data show that a family with an income of $25,000 a year will have a harder time in Chicago than almost anywhere else in the country.

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$1 cigarette tax hike advances in Senate

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:42:09 -0500

The state's cigarette tax would leap by $1 over two years under a proposal a Senate committee approved today while hoping to come up with more money to pay down the state's big backlog of Medicaid bil

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Illinois Poet Laureate - the Blago Poetry Slam

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:57:37 -0600

Gov. Rod Blagojevich Shakespeare, Poet Laureate of Illinois, has collected his favorite, original poems to share with the great people of Illinois.

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CNN Poll: Blagojevich named naughtiest pol of 2008

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:40:40 -0600

Which politician should be top Santa's naughty list this year?

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