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Illinois may limit specialty license plates

May 21, 2019 at 5:18 p.m.

Illinois currently offers 109 different specialty license plates for vehicles. There are plates with different designs and often different colors for Autism Awareness, Ducks Unlimited, Prevent Violence, Hearing Impaired, Illinois...

Frankfort resident Kay MacNeil and Bloom Township Highway Commissioner Joe Stanfa are urging township officials and garden club members across Illinois to plant milkweed to help the Monarch butterfly, Illinois' official state insect.

Make Illinois a rest stop for Monarch butterflies

May 21, 2019 at 5:17 p.m.

A highway commissioner from Chicago Heights and an Illinois Garden Club official from Frankfort have joined forces in a statewide campaign to provide "rest stops" for Monarch butterflies on roadsides...

The BetterRoadsAhead.org political action committee has paid for a mailer that attacks legislators for moving money out of the state's road fund.

PAC targets lawmakers for road fund sweep

June 16, 2018 at 6:04 p.m.

"How many must die in Illinois?" That's the frightening headline on a large, glossy mailer sent to people's homes throughout the state by a political action committee representing road builders....

Jim Gierach, Palos Park (baiduhai file photo)

A ‘good day’ for lawyer who fought against drug war

June 15, 2018 at 7:03 p.m.

James Gierach sounded almost giddy when I telephoned him Monday to get his reaction to Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's announcement that she would no longer prosecute misdemeanor marijuana...

As ship of state sinks, it’s every man for himself

May 21, 2019 at 5:16 p.m.

Listening to elected leaders in Illinois makes me wonder about the discussions taking place on the Titanic as it was about to go down. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to...

Opinion: Time may be right for a state polka song

May 25, 2019 at 12:56 p.m.

Illinois is facing a crunching budget deficit, a massive pension debt and cuts in almost every state social service program as a Republican governor wages war on unions and a...

Kadner: CEO sets $70,000 minimum wage

May 21, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

Dan Price, the young chief executive of a Seattle-based credit card processing firm, has made national news by cutting his salary 90 percent and promising to make the minimum wage...

Union members packed Crete's village hall Monday night, April 13, 2015, to voice their opposition to a resolution that would endorse Gov. Bruce Rauner's proposed 'turnaround agenda.' (Dennis Sullivan/ Daily Southtown)

No vote on state turnaround agenda in Crete

May 21, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner's turnaround agenda suffered a setback Monday night when Crete Mayor Michael Einhorn decided not to call for a vote supporting the governor's effort after an outpouring of...

Ronald Gardiner is sworn in as acting mayor of Glenwood on Saturday after the resignation of Mayor Kerry Durkin.

Glenwood mayor quits over well water backlash

June 15, 2018 at 8:11 p.m.

Glenwood's mayor has resigned, and an acting mayor was sworn in over the weekend in a stunning sequence of events resulting from the outcome of last Tuesday's municipal election. Kerry...

New alderman still rightly proud of his arrest record

June 15, 2018 at 8:48 p.m.

"I'm probably the first candidate who posted his arrest record on his website before he was elected alderman," Brian Hopkins, Chicago's new 2nd Ward alderman, said with a laugh. It...

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