via the Chicago Tribune Mayor Rahm Emanuel continues to press his fundraising advantage with less than a month to go before the mayoral election, according to state campaign finance reports. Emanuel announced Tuesday night that he had received another $427,499…
Read MoreVia chicagophoenix.com Ald. Deborah Mell (33rd) is being hit yet again over possible campaign finance impropriety. This time it’s from Annisa Wanat—hoping to oust Chicago’s only out lesbian alderman to get a chance at representing Albany Park, Avondale, Irving Park, North…
Read MoreVia The Chicago Tribune The mayor of a troubled suburb quickly came up with more than $70,000 in the nick of time to pay off a campaign fine and keep his name on the ballot — capping the latest unusual…
Read MoreVia Chicago Daily Herald Plenty of incumbents will be on ballots for April’s general consolidated election, but few have served as long as Stevenson High School’s Merv Roberts. Roberts has been on the Lincolnshire school’s board since 1981 — an…
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Read MoreVia Samford Advocate In the Gettysburg Address delivered at Soldiers’ National Cemetery in the middle of the Civil War, President Lincoln said the dead had given “the last full measure of devotion” to preserve the United States. And something more. The soldiers…
Read MoreVia Trib Talk Democracy works best when our representatives are focused on their constituents — not dialing for dollars from out-of-district mega-donors or courting favor from Super PACs and special interest groups. Thanks in large part to the U.S. Supreme Court’s…
Read MoreVia Crain’s Gov. Bruce Rauner’s most pressing challenge is resolving the state’s fiscal crisis, but his most important long-term goal is stamping out the corruption that corrodes Illinois government. Cronyism, influence peddling and pay-to-play politics got us into the current…
Read MoreVia The Chicago Tribune New Democratic Treasurer Mike Frerichs on Tuesday declined to make public a taxpayer-funded report commissioned by Republican predecessor Dan Rutherford, who ordered an internal investigation after he was accused nearly a year ago of sexual harassment and…
Read MoreVia Illinois Mirror Is Rauner Too Quick to Use Executive Orders? Meanwhile, across town, almost a companion piece to the Tribune’s Sunday story about Rauner’s blame game comes a missive from Sun-Times reporter Natasha Korecki headlined, “Governing by executive order…
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