Thursday, November 29, 2012

Senate panel OK's bill to give illegal immigrants temporary driver's licenses

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By Jamey Dunn An Illinois Senate committee today approved a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants access to temporary driver'...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Radogno hangs onto leadership spot

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By Jamey Dunn  Despite daunting losses in November’s general election and a challenge from among her ranks, Republican Senate Minority Le...

Lawmakers keep busy on the second day of veto session

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By Jamey Dunn During a busy veto session day today, lawmakers voted to override Gov. Pat Quinn’s budget vetoes, approved a bill that would...

Quinn: There is no money for pay raises

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By Jamey Dunn Gov. Pat Quinn said today that Illinois does not have the money to give public workers raises under the contract their union...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

House resolution could mean no pay raises for state workers

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By Jamey Dunn State workers may not get a raise next fiscal year if lawmakers stick to a resolution approved by a House committee today. ...

Corporate tax info could become public knowledge

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By Jamey Dunn Some Illinois lawmakers want to look at corporations’ income tax bills, but business groups say it would violate their priva...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Quinn wants help from lawmakers to move special election date back

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By Jamey Dunn Voters in Illinois’ Second Congressional District will soon be headed back to the polls to choose a replacement for Jesse Ja...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

AFSCME will continue work without a contract

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By Jamey Dunn  In an unprecedented move, Gov. Pat Quinn has canceled Illinois government's contract with the state’s largest public em...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Vote on licenses for undocumented drivers could come next week

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By Jamey Dunn Senate President John Cullerton said he hopes to get legislation allowing undocumented residents to get driver’s licenses th...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Comptroller: Money for some state programs will run out before the end of the fiscal year

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By Jamey Dunn A new report from the Illinois comptroller’s office predicts that the state budget will not cover costs through the end of t...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Business group calls state pension problem "unfixable"

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By Jamey Dunn The Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago called the state’s troubled pension system “unfixable” in a memo sent ...

Former Dixon comptroller enters guilty plea

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Rita Crundwell pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $53 million from the city of Dixon when she served as its comp...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Republicans look for lessons from last week's defeats

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By Jamey Dunn After suffering serious losses in last week’s election , Illinois Republicans agree that they have lessons to learn from the...
Thursday, November 08, 2012

Illinois Republicans search for reasons for election losses

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By Jamey Dunn After suffering crushing electoral defeats on Tuesday that left Democrats with veto-proof majorities in both chambers of the...
Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Stars align for big Illinois Democratic wins

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By Jamey Dunn Not only did Democratic incumbents facing competitive races for the General Assembly hang onto their seats yesterday, Illino...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Election night

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I will not be posting on the blog tonight because I am hosting a live webcast called The Count 2012 . Tune in for returns and analysis from ...

Congressional races to watch

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By Jamey Dunn With several congressional seats in play, big money has been thrown into Illinois races and big-name politicians are making ...
Monday, November 05, 2012

State legislative races to watch

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By Jamey Dunn  Illinois Senate Races District 36 The race between Sen. Mike Jacobs, a Democrat from East Moline, and Moline Republican...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Unintended ballot language could sink proposed amendment

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By Jamey Dunn Thousands of Illinois voters have already gone to the polls for early voting, but their choice on a proposed constitutional ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

New legislative map contributes to high-dollar races

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By Jamey Dunn At least one race for the Illinois General Assembly is on target to break an all-time spending record, and another race has ...