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Meet the politicians getting rich off Chicago's property tax scheme
Flawed property valuations and the process required to fix them are a cash cow for law firms, including those of House Speaker Mike Madigan, Chicago Alderman Ed Burke and Illinois Senate President John Cullerton. -
Illinois pays millions in pension benefits to the dead
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in May that pension benefits flowing to government retirees can never be “diminished or impaired.” A new investigation into state and local pension records reveals this ironclad protection can extend beyond the grave. From 2010 to 2014, 11 of Illinois’ 15 largest pension funds paid out $2.2 million in pension benefits to more than 1,000 dead people. -
Madigan comes up short on SB 1229 override
House Speaker Mike Madigan said on multiple occasions he had the votes to override the governor’s veto. -
Obama & Rahm set the record straight
Proft In two recent revealing interviews, we learned that President Obama and his tiny dancer who would be Chicago Mayor are challenged by the same marketing problem: the public's perception of them belies who they really are. -
Candidate profile: Dwight Kay wants balanced budget, job growth
Kay This piece contains excerpts from an interview conducted by the Madison County Record with Dwight Kay, who has announced his intention to run for state representative in the 112th District against Rep. Jay Hoffman. -
Report: Hoffman 'tops, by far' in favors doled out by Blagojevich
Hoffman In the six years Rod Blagojevich held office as Governor of Illinois, his downstate ally State Rep. Jay Hoffman (D-Collinsville) built a substantial campaign war chest. He also helped pass a slew of laws ranging from workers' compensation issues to the creation of the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center at SIUE. -
Patronage database: White Dems more successful than Blacks, Latinos
Requests from white Democratic legislators to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich seeking jobs and raises succeeded 68 percent more often than requests from other legislators, according to statistics the Chicago Sun-Times published last week. -
Reid pushed for Madigan to succeed Obama
Reid WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly urged Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to consider appointing Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. -
Everything you need to know about Illinois politics
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Palin takes real risk for real change
Eric Kohn That Barack Obama and his entire campaign can't stop taking about Sarah Palin only serves to demonstrate John McCain's deft savvy in selecting her as his running mate. -
Obama, Hope and the NIU shootings
In recent years, Americans have been forced to deal with a rash of senseless, inexplicable school shootings such as that which occurred at Northern Illinois University leaving five innocents dead. -
Hastert says reports of demise are exaggerated
Former Speaker of the House Dennis J. Hastert this morning denied speculation that he would retire early from a seat he has occupied for 21 years in Illinois' 14th Congressional District. -
Is this the way to select good judges?
Illinois' judicial system has been branded as one of the worst in the nation in two separate evaluations: the respected Harris International survey and the American Tort Reform Association's annual "judicial hellholes" report showing three Illinois counties to be among the worst in the country. -
Sims asks for clemency
Child killer Paula Sims filed a request for clemency with the Illinois Prisoner Review Board last week claiming she no longer poses a risk to society. She suffered from postpartum depression, she claims in her petition, at the time she drown her two infant daughters first in 1985 and again in 1989. -
Danish study on autism-thimerosal flawed
I enjoyed your article on the autism-thimerosal controversy. I got the feeling that you are a reporter who may be willing to look at the various theories regarding this issue. -
Senate med-mal fiasco confirms two facts
The hard-to-believe behavior of Illinois Senate Democrats last week reveals two facts that advocates of medical liability reform -- indeed any kind of civil justice reform -- need to come to grips with. -
Insurer of trial attorneys is broke
Kenneth Printen, M.D. A mass exodus of trial attorneys leaving the state is not likely, laments the head of the Illinois State Medical Society, even though the Association of Trial Attorneys Assurance Mutual (ATLA Mutual) has been declared insolvent. -
Follow the leader
Sen. Reid Follow the leader... Closing in... Return to Normalcy... Finally.