Via Chicago Sun Times Even as he has poured $9.6 million of his own money into his campaign, Bruce Rauner, the Republican candidate for governor, has also been dipping more heavily into his personal wealth to help finance GOP candidates…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun Times SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn has spent a political lifetime fine-tuning his image as a government reformer, but a new Early & Often Poll shows Republican Bruce Rauner may have wrested that mantle away from the…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun Times The clock is ticking for a high-profile candidate to mount a credible challenge to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, but Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis either doesn’t hear it or has chosen to ignore it. Emanuel continues…
Read MoreVia Forbes Last week, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a bill that places on the November 4 ballot a non-binding tax referendum that has many of us scratching our heads. If Governor Quinn is truly interested in finding out how voters feel,…
Read MoreVia Chicago Sun Times DAVE MCKINNEY AND NATASHA KORECKI SPRINGFIELD —Fifteen hundred miles away, the Cayman Islands dominated Illinois’ governor’s race for a third straight day Wednesday with Republican Bruce Rauner going on the offensive by calling on Gov. Pat Quinn…
Read MoreVia the State Journal Register In an interview I did last month with TIM SCHNEIDER, the new chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, he said, “I’m not going to open up my playbook, but I will tell you that we…
Read MoreVia Oak Park Journal Opinion: Letters To The Editor From David Melton, ICPR, Executive Director For years, voters and politicians alike have complained about the challenges of funding election campaigns. Even municipal campaigns in communities such as Oak Park…
Read MoreVia Chicago Tribune By Gregory Pratt, Tribune reporter Every year, Tinley Park officials spend tens of thousands of dollars printing three newsletters that tout the town’s virtues.In a recent edition of the Tinley Park Exchange, Mayor Ed Zabrocki lauded the…
Read MoreFrom the Daily Herald Marni Pyke Getting riders to their destinations safely and on time. That’s Metra’s mission but now you could add another responsibility — saving people from confusion. Illinois Inspector General Ricardo Meza opened a can of worms…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune By Hal Dardick, Tribune reporter Mayor Rahm Emanuel and aldermen won’t grapple this fall with the financial reckoning the city faces over its underfunded police and fire pension systems, budget officials acknowledged Thursday. Instead, the Emanuel…
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