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Gov. Bruce Rauner issued an executive order halting "fair share" payments from nonunion state workers to the unions.

GOP mayors cool to Rauner turnaround agenda

May 21, 2019 at 5:12 p.m.

Despite a statewide crusade to convince mayors to support his "Turnaround Agenda" for Illinois, Gov. Bruce Rauner is discovering that even fellow Republicans are reluctant to embrace his plan. Crete...

Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki, shown in March, said that he will step down June 1 because of health issues.

Election brings change to Tinley Park

June 15, 2018 at 8:26 p.m.

With half his village board replaced in a contentious election on Tuesday, Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki said he's prepared to work with a group that successfully ousted a slate...

Voters show little interest in public schools

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

A candidate for the local school board stood outside the Orland Park Sportsplex, the largest polling place in the Southland, in the cold and rain Tuesday morning, looking desperately for...

Politicians offer to help you pick a candidate

May 21, 2019 at 5:11 p.m.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has a suburban school board candidate he wants me to vote for on Tuesday, even though Dart lives in Chicago. The sheriff sent me a...

Politicians interested in schools but are voters?

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

Readers tell me they've never seen so much organized politicking in suburban school board elections as they have this year. In some areas, residents mailboxes are stuffed with campaign fliers,...

Sen. Ted Cruz, who announced Monday that he is seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, said his family will be signing up for Obamacare, a law he has frequently criticized.

Does America need a natural-born president?

June 15, 2018 at 8:56 p.m.

I was thinking of writing something blasting the outdated notion that a U.S. president should be a natural-born citizen when it occurred to me that the American people probably aren't...

Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner deliver an address in Bloomington, Ill., about how he intends to work to bring more business back to Illinois as he spreads his "Turnaround Agenda" with the public.

Rauner asks mayors to support ‘turnaround agenda’

May 21, 2019 at 5:09 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner is personally meeting with mayors throughout the state in an effort to get them to support his "turnaround agenda" for Illinois and put pressure on the legislature....

Republican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner listens while the Rev. James Meeks speaks about education Sept. 8, 2014 at the Ray and Joan Kroc Center.

Meeks still battling for more school funding

May 25, 2019 at 12:55 p.m.

After years of fighting with fellow Democrats to improve public school funding in Illinois, former state Sen. James Meeks has switched sides. He's now chairman of the Illinois State Board...

A Cook County judge has granted a restraining order barring convicted felon Kenneth Williams from serving on District 205 school board.

Campaign a family affair in Thornton District 205

May 21, 2019 at 5:08 p.m.

The wife, sister and daughter of the former school board president in Thornton Township High School District 205, who was forced to resign because he's a felon, may soon be...

The new building director for Blue Island's recreation center is Bobby Jackson, who pleaded guilty 17 years ago to embezzling thousands of dollars from the tiny Dixmoor Park District, where he was park board president.

Blue Island hires ‘mastermind’ of Dixmoor parks scandal

May 21, 2019 at 5:08 p.m.

It has been 17 years since Bobby Jackson pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal more than $100,000 from the Dixmoor Park District, but it came as a shock to...

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