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Rauner echoes Trump, lambastes immigrants
Governor runs right in debate against Pritzker at Chicago Sun-Times, blames illegal immigrants for crime
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Ted Cox October 9, 2018 Donald Trump , Bruce Rauner , J.B. Pritzker , Illinois Immigration , Immigration , Immigrants , Chicago Gun Violence , Chicago Crime , Rahm Emanuel , Sanctuary City
Individualists unite! New video
Progressive groups join together under an agenda of interrelated issues they say are ‘overwhelmingly popular with the broader electorate’
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Ted Cox October 9, 2018 Forward Illinois , Jack Darin , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , Jennifer Welch , Planned Parenthood , Planned Parenthood Illinois Action , Yolanda Piper , SEIU , Mike Ziri , Equality Illinois , Bindu Poroori , ICIRR , Zach Koutsky , UFCW Local 881 , Mark Walsh , Illinois Council Agains Handgun Violence , William McNary , Citizen Action Illinois , Working Families , Health Care , Minimum Wage , Unions , Gun Control , Illinois Gun Control , Immigration , Immigrants
Trumpaganda: Class in session
University of Illinois to launch eight-week course on Trump’s use of Twitter, attacks on ‘fake news’
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Ted Cox October 8, 2018 Donald Trump , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , The Daily Illini , Mira Sotirovic , Barry Goldwater , Ronald Reagan , George H.W. Bush , Bill Clinton , Hillary Clinton , Newt Gingrich , Barack Obama , Stephanie Craft
Corn growers warn of trade-deal delay on USMCA
Pact could take months to complete, while Congress bogs down on Farm Bill
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Ted Cox October 8, 2018 Illinois Corn Growers Association , NAFTA , USMCA , U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement , Farm Bill , Dick Durbin , Donald Trump , Mike Conaway , Debbie Stabenow , Food Stamps , Work Requirement
Vote! For state's groundbreaking top women
Illinois Top 200 bicentennial celebration tries to determine top people, places, and things in state history
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Ted Cox October 5, 2018 Illinois Bicentennial , Illinois Top 200 , Lincoln Presidential Library , Illinois Bicentennial Commission , Oprah Winfrey , Michelle Obama , Hillary Clinton , Mother Jones , Lucy Parsons , Ida B. Wells , Betty Friedan , Jane Addams , Phyllis Schlafly , Archer Daniels Midland , Wrigley Field , New Salem , The Wizard of Oz , Ernest Hemingway , Frank Lloyd Wright , REO Speedwagon , Miles Davis , Benny Goodman , Alison Krauss , Lorado Taft , Louis Sullivan , Dick Van Dyke , Walt Disney , Bob Newhart , Jack Benny , Richard Pryor , Enrico Fermi , Michael Jordan , Dick Butkus , Walter Payton
'Gettysburg Address Rap' set for bicentennial
Program for 200th birthday in December includes Chicago’s ‘Hamilton’ Miguel Cervantes, Joe Mantegna, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Buddy Guy, and — if you can believe it — REO Speedwagon
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Ted Cox October 4, 2018 Hamilton , Alexander Hamilton , Abraham Lincoln , Tim Kazurinsky , Illinois Bicentennial , Gettysburg Address , Bill Kurtis , Joe Mantegna , Jackie Joyner Kersee , Chicago Cubs , White Sox , Chicago Bears , Chicago Blackhawks , Chicago Bulls , Rockford Peaches , Alison Krauss , Nat King Cole , Cheap Trick , Miles Davis , Benny Goodman , Buddy Guy , Sam Cooke , Muddy Waters , Kevin Cronin , REO Speedwagon , Styx , Stuart Layne
Pollution panel splits difference on coal-plant rules
The Illinois Pollution Control Board made concessions to environmentalists on clean-air standards and sent the compromise back to the public to reconsider it
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Ted Cox October 4, 2018 Bruce Rauner , J.B. Pritzker , Alec Messina , IEPA , Sierra Club , Piasa Palisades Sierra Club , Illinois Sierra Club , Illinois Pollution Control Board , Illinois Pollution , Dynegy , Vistra Energy , Union of Concerned Scientists , Better Government Association , Brett Chase , Virginia Woulfe-Belle
Rauner, Pritzker go head to head
Top two candidates go at it in second debate, with incumbent showing an air of desperation
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Rauner and the public's right to know
State withheld information on health crises at Sterigenics and Quincy Veterans Home
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Farmers cheer new trade pact
Corn and soybean farmers are glad to have a trade deal with Canada and Mexico, but Sen. Durbin worries about the Farm Bill
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'Shut down Sterigenics'
Andrea and Jim Thome lead calls by west-suburban residents to close sterilization firm
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Ted Cox October 2, 2018 Jim Thome , Andrea Thome , Stop Sterigenics , Sterigenics , John Curran , John Cullerton , Jim Durkin , Lisa Madigan , Bruce Rauner , IEPA , Neringa Zymancius , Dave Koehler
Trump energy rules draw flak at Chicago hearing
The president’s Affordable Clean Energy plan ‘is not affordable, and it is not clean,’ says AG Lisa Madigan
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Ted Cox October 1, 2018 Donald Trump , Lisa Madigan , Pleasant Plains , Environmental Protection Agency , Climate Change , Clean Air Act , Clean Air Standards , Juliana Stratton , Michael Mikulka , AFGE , AFGE Local 704 , Girl Scout Troop 6195 , Dulce Ortiz , Tony Pierce , Clean Power Lake County , Waukegan
Durbin: Let FBI do its assigned job on Kavanaugh
Senator says confirmation comes down to a ‘jury of three’ Republicans
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Improv delivered to your door
Political canvassers learn improv techniques to engage with voters
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Equality key to fighting sexual harassment
New report calls on political parties to lead by example in changing Springfield culture
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Ted Cox September 27, 2018 Michael Madigan , Susana Mendoza , Melinda Bush , Carol Ammons , Illinois Politics , Illinois Democratic Party , Illinois Republican Party , Brett Kavanaugh , Anita Hill , Clarence Thomas
Trump Country marked by 'deaths of despair'
Medical study finds Trump strength among voters concerned with rising death rates, lower life expectancy
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Union interest on the increase
Survey finds almost half of U.S. non-union workers would sign to join one
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The immigrants in Daley Plaza
Doctors Without Borders sets up interactive ‘Forced From Home’ traveling exhibit in downtown Chicago
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I scream, you scream for Lauren Underwood
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream owners scoop up congressional candidates with new flavors
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IEPA withholds data on Rauner company
State agency resists attorney general’s request for emission figures from controversial Willowbrook company Sterigenics
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