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Sheilah Garland, of National Nurses United, told audience members Tuesday night at a rally at a Park Forest church that a tax on financial transactions at the Chicago Board of Trade and Mercantile Exchange could raise billions for the state budget.

Kadner: Even people who favor taxes want a tax break

May 21, 2019 at 5:46 p.m.

Several political action groups joined together this week for a "Stop the Chop" rally in Park Forest designed to alert people to the dangers of pending state budget cuts to...

This June 29, 2013, file photo shows White Sox legendary pitcher Billy Pierce tossing the ceremonial first pitch before the White Sox played the Cleveland Indians.

Kadner: Why Billy Pierce was a South Side legend

May 21, 2019 at 5:45 p.m.

White Sox legend Billy Pierce was from an era in American history when baseball players were worshipped as gods but walked among us mere mortals posing as ordinary men. Perhaps...

In this Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 photo, Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, speaks to reporters while on the Senate floor during special session at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Kadner: School reform bill threatens to ‘crash’ system

May 21, 2019 at 5:45 p.m.

Illinois Senate President John Cullerton hopes to pass legislation Tuesday designed to "crash" the state's public school funding formula in two years to save it. The measure, Senate Bill 318,...

Barbara Murphy, a founder of Chicago Southland for Bernie Sanders, proudly shows off her "Bernie for President" T-shirt during a rally Wednesday for the Vermont senator at the Flossmoor Station restaurant.

Southland group’s goal: Sanders as president

May 21, 2019 at 5:44 p.m.

About 50 people gathered Wednesday in a banquet room at a Flossmoor restaurant to launch a ""political revolution." It's a grass roots movement for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democratic...

A patron plays a video slot game inside Penny's Place in Calumet Park.

Kadner: Using video gambling in political war

May 21, 2019 at 5:43 p.m.

The budget battle between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats in the legislature ratcheted up another notch this week with the state threatening to withhold video gambling revenue from towns....

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks outside his Capitol office in Springfield, Ill.

Kadner: Pension crisis requires a change in the constitution

May 21, 2019 at 5:43 p.m.

After the Cook County Board passed a sales tax increase in order to cover its pension debt, a frustrated Democratic member of the panel wondered why the governor isn't pushing...

Kadner: Never argue with a person carrying a gun and a badge

June 15, 2018 at 12:08 p.m.

Never get into a heated argument with a person armed with a gun, especially if that individual also has a badge. That's pretty simple advice most of us can live...

Kadner: Alleged ‘criminal masterminds’ claim they’ve done nothing wrong, following law

May 21, 2019 at 5:42 p.m.

I decided to pay a visit to two men at the Cook County Jail who are charged with masterminding a scheme to place squatters in at least a dozen foreclosed...

Circuit Court Judge James Riley swore in Sean Morrison after he was appointed to serve the remainder of former Cook County Board Commissioner Elizabeth Gorman's term Wednesday evening.

Trying to tell party bosses about good government

May 21, 2019 at 5:42 p.m.

As Palos Park resident Sean Morrison was being handed a seat on the Cook County Board by his fellow GOP township committeemen Wednesday night, one woman objected, claiming over and...

After a federal appeals court in Chicago threw out five of 18 counts against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, his daughter Amy, left, and wife Patti talk to reporters outside the family's home on the Northwest Side on July 21, 2015.

Blago court ruling defends ‘political logrolling’

May 21, 2019 at 5:42 p.m.

If I am a government official who wants a job for his son and you are a mayor who wants a road project for his city, I can promise you...

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