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PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:41am
Mon Nov 24, 2008

Every IL County Voted Heavily Against Con-Con (UPDATED)

Originally posted on 11/21.  Updated and bumped up on 11/24 to incorporate municipal results.

A Progress Illinois analysis of the 2008 general election results found that every county in the state -- along with voters in six of the eight cities with their own election ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:08am
Mon Nov 24, 2008

Meeks Wants To Reverse Sales Tax Skimming Policy

Last week we highlighted
a fairly simple policy fix that could generate a significant amount of
additional revenue for the Prairie State without raising taxes. If the
legislature would just cap the amount retailers receive for simply
collecting sales taxes, the state ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
10:17am
Mon Nov 24, 2008

Live From IL-5: Quigley To Start Raising

The Sun-Times' Abdon Pallasch has the latest scoop out of the 5th Congressional District today. Cook Co. Commissioner Mike Quigley is throwing his hat in the ring:

Quigley said Sunday he plans to file
papers today to start collecting campaign funds to run for ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
5:04pm
Sun Nov 23, 2008

Axelrod Comments On Open Senate Seat, D.C. Leadership Vacuum

This morning, David Axelrod appeared on Fox Chicago Sunday and had some notable remarks on both the local and national fronts.  He said that President-elect Barack Obama plans to stay out of Prairie State politics once in the White House and doesn't plan on being "a ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
5:21pm
Fri Nov 21, 2008

A Bailout For Main Street

Just three days after Dick Durbin relaunched his effort
to let judges alter the terms of distressed mortgages in bankruptcy
cases, a coalition of activists rallied outside the senior Illinois senator’s
Chicago office to commend his efforts and push him to offer more
...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
1:14pm
Fri Nov 21, 2008

Waiting On The Office Of Urban Policy

It’s still unclear what Barack Obama’s Office of Urban Policy will do. On his campaign website, the president-elect makes the amorphous promise
that whoever holds the position will “develop a strategy for
metropolitan America and … ensure that all federal dollars ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
12:20pm
Fri Nov 21, 2008

Chicago Public Schools Seeing Green

While there have been -- and continue to be -- numerous obstacles to greening the Chicago Public Schools system, Suzanne Carlson, the woman hired by the district to oversee its new Environmental Action Plan, tells us not to rule her out. Carlson recently unveiled a ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:08am
Fri Nov 21, 2008

When All Else Fails, Kirk Blames The Unions

What does Rep. Mark Kirk have against the American worker? Back in June, the North Shore Republican initially voted down a federal extension of unemployment benefits, claiming that people who had worked as briefly as two weeks could game the system and collect 52 weeks of ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
7:35pm
Thu Nov 20, 2008

Statehouse Round-Up

Today saw no action in Springfield on the governor’s not-so-popular Emergency Budget Act.
Two more days remain in the veto session, so we’ll have to wait and see
what happens. Nonetheless, there were a few legislative developments
worth noting:

Answering ...