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State legislators promise 2nd audit of key agency

August 22, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.

Lawmakers on Monday criticized Gov. Rod Blagojevich's key administrative agency over a state audit's allegations of mismanagement and cronyism and they took the unusual step of ordering an immediate follow-up...

Support fizzles for ‘tax swap’

August 21, 2019 at 4:37 p.m.

A politically risky proposal to overhaul the way the state funds public schools appeared all but dead Friday as its chief legislative sponsor said he didn't have enough votes to...

Daley’s lips sealed on truck scandal

August 18, 2019 at 3:09 p.m.

Though 15 months have passed since the first arrests in City Hall's Hired Truck scandal, Mayor Richard Daley said Wednesday he still doesn't know who in his administration installed the...

$9 billion program for roads unveiled

August 22, 2021 at 1:57 p.m.

With Congress still wrangling over a federal transportation bill, the state unveiled a six-year $9.15 billion highway improvement program that focuses on maintaining roads and keeping bridges in top shape...

Bush celebrates Lincoln with call for world liberty

March 28, 2019 at 5:06 p.m.

Using the dedication of the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum as a backdrop, President Bush Tuesday likened his own push to spread liberty around the globe to the 16th president's...

Museum pulls no punches

March 28, 2019 at 1:24 p.m.

In a darkened gallery of this city's new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum, visitors walk a gantlet of ghostly, videographic faces, many spewing insults and hate-filled rhetoric like Lincoln may have...

HEAVEN’S LOBBYIST

August 22, 2021 at 1:26 p.m.

The Church Lady doesn't like alcohol. She doesn't like drugs. And she especially doesn't like that sneakiest of temptations, the one that keeps seducing Illinois lawmakers with promises of glitz,...

No thanks

August 19, 2021 at 3:12 p.m.

A crush of travelers heading home for Thanksgiving ran smack into the season's first winter storm Wednesday, a nasty mixture of snow, sleet, rain and wind that snarled area interstates...

Suspect has psychotic past

August 19, 2021 at 5:18 p.m.

The college dropout charged with murdering a security guard in the Illinois Capitol this week has been in and out of mental institutions five times and has told family members...

Casino plan back on the table

August 19, 2021 at 2:33 p.m.

A coalition of business, labor and civic leaders is floating a proposal for a downtown casino that would anchor a newly created entertainment district, just months after Gov. Rod Blagojevich...

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