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Law enforcement officers take protesters into custody July 20, 2016, in Cleveland during the third day of the Republican convention.

Unorthodox Illinois Republican delegation heads to Trump convention without Rauner, Kirk

May 15, 2019 at 3:45 p.m.

The Illinois Republican delegation heading to Cleveland for the party's national convention is a group of mostly political newcomers as atypical as the candidate they intend to help nominate —...

Audience members listen as Hillary Clinton delivers a speech at the Old State Capitol in Springfield on July 13, 2016.

Clinton calls Trump a ‘threat’ to democracy

August 21, 2019 at 7:10 p.m.

With the historical site of Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech as a backdrop, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Wednesday criticized Republican rival Donald Trump for divisively exploiting fear...

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks on June 27, 2016.

Labor board rules against Rauner in union case

May 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

A state labor panel on Thursday rejected Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's attempt to skip a step in his ongoing dispute with the largest state employee union over a new contract....

Rep., William Davis (D) 30th Dist,, complains to his Republican colleagues in the House that they did not seem to care for minority communities before a vote for a stopgap budget, Thursday June 30, 2016. The budget passed in the House and the Senate.

Rauner bends on budget, lives to fight another day on ‘turnaround agenda’

May 15, 2019 at 3:44 p.m.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner staked his first term on a three-prong strategy to improve Illinois' economy: loosen the grip held by entrenched politicians, weaken the influence of organized labor and...

Rauner signs stopgap budget, school funding bill — but relief from stalemate proves temporary

August 18, 2019 at 2:01 p.m.

Illinois political leaders cut a deal on a makeshift budget Thursday to keep state government afloat for six months, ensure schools open this fall and rescue the financially struggling Chicago...

Pigeons fly near the Capitol in Springfield on June 29, 2016.

Rauner, lawmakers piecing together education funding, allowing for tax hike

May 15, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

State lawmakers on Thursday hope to vote on a last-minute budget compromise Democratic leaders are negotiating with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, a plan that would keep state government going for...

Rauner, top lawmakers hold lengthy talks on budget impasse, Madigan ‘optimistic’

May 15, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislative leaders met behind closed doors for three hours at the Capitol on Tuesday, with normally cagey Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan professing optimism, his Senate...

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to reporters about the state budget and education funding, in his office at the Illinois State Capitol, Monday, June 27, 2016, in Springfield, Ill.

Rauner warns Democrats on tying stopgap budget to CPS ‘bailout’

May 15, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner continued the political posturing ahead of state lawmakers' return to the Capitol on Wednesday, accusing Democrats of standing in the way of a stopgap budget deal by...

Latoya Lawrence looks through the refrigerator as her son Cleo, 4, noshes on a sandwich in their Evanston apartment on June 17, 2016.

Illinois women hit ‘disproportionally hard’ by record state budget impasse

May 15, 2019 at 3:42 p.m.

As Illinois government has lurched along for nearly a year without a formal budget, women who rely on state services have been among those suffering the most. Frozen out of...

Illinois' first lady Diana Rauner listens to her husband Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner during a meeting of the governor's Cabinet on Children and Youth on June 9, 2016, in Springfield.

Diana Rauner calls early childhood education funding ‘hot mess’

May 15, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner oversaw a rather awkward scene Thursday, hosting a meeting of his Cabinet on children and youth during which wife Diana Rauner talked about the "hot mess" that...

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