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  'Political questions': Judges duck thorny IL constitutional issues, but how much free rein should IL pols have?

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Friday, Sep 20, 2019 @ 2:54pm

  Judges in Illinois have allowed the state government and Cook County avoid challenges to their spending power under the state constitution. But should they have?

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• McCarter: national security, economic development factor prominently in role as ambassador to Kenya

  By Ann Maher | Monday, Feb 4, 2019 @ 12:49pm

  As former Illinois state senator Kyle McCarter prepares to assume the role as U.S. ambassador to Kenya, terrorist threats in the eastern African nation remain heightened three weeks after a deadly attack at a Nairobi hotel and office complex.

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• Seventh Circuit rescinds Herndon's 'deeply troubling' sanction in Pradaxa MDL; dissent says it was "superbly tailored"

  By Bethany Krajelis | Monday, Feb 3, 2014 @ 5:15pm

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