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Pritzker to join Rauner for bicentennial gala
Venue shifts to Navy Pier for Dec. 3 celebration due to weak ticket sales at United Center
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Ted Cox November 12, 2018 J.B. Pritzker , Bruce Rauner , Stuart Layne , Miguel Cervantes , Abraham Lincoln , Bill Kurtis , Joe Mantegna , Jackie Joyner Kersee , Buddy Guy , REO Speedwagon
Legal pot could take Illinois higher
Recreational marijuana could rake in $525 million in taxes, study finds, with corresponding job gains and cuts in enforcement costs
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Ted Cox November 12, 2018 J.B. Pritzker , Bruce Rauner , Frank Manzo IV , Robert Bruno , Jill Manzo , Illinois Economic Policy Institute , Project for Middle Class Renewal , University of Illinois , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Legal Marijuana , Recreational Marijuana , Cannabis , Paul Simon Public Policy Institute , SIU
State sets date for coal regulations
Illinois Pollution Control Board goes back to square one with a late-January public hearing on emissions at coal-fired power plants
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Saving House and homes, but not Republicans
Dan Proft’s stealth campaign touting property-tax opponents won seven races but lost 12, including GOP House floor leader Peter Breen
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Ted Cox November 8, 2018 Michael Madigan , Dan Proft , Bruce Rauner , Terra Costa Howard , Liberty Principles , Richard Uihlein , Donald Trump , Peter Breen , Randy Hultgren , Lauren Underwood , Peter Roskam , Breitbart , Local Government Information Services
Activists cheer election results
Forward Illinois says the election wasn’t partisan so much as it showed widespread appeal for a progressive agenda
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Ted Cox November 7, 2018 Jack Darin , Jennifer Welch , Kady McFadden , Forward Illinois , Planned Parenthood Illinois Action , Sierra Club Illinois Chapter , SEIU , Equality Illinois , Mike Ziri , Illinois Minimum Wage , Kwame Raoul , J.B. Pritzker , Bruce Rauner , Donald Trump , Mike Pence , AFSCME Council 31 , Janus v. AFSCME , Janus , Illinois Working Families
J.B. Pritzker elected governor
Voters remove Rauner in move for change across Illinois, send Underwood, Casten to Congress
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Duckworth, Durbin demand health head quit
Senators point to emails showing Rauner’s Director Shah helped hide a botched repair that led to the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at the Quincy Veterans Home
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Ted Cox November 6, 2018 Bruce Rauner , Nirav Shah , Dave McKinney , Tony Arnold , WBEZ , Illinois Veterans Home , Quincy Veterans Home , Legionnaires' Disease , Tammy Duckworth , Dick Durbin
Go vote! It ain't illegal yet
Illinoisans to elect governor, legislators and help determine makeup of Congress
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Ted Cox November 6, 2018 Donald Trump , Bruce Rauner , J.B. Pritzker , Peter Roskam , Sean Casten , Rodney Davis , Betsy Dirksen Londrigan , Randy Hultgren , Lauren Underwood , Mike Bost , Brendan Kelly , Judicial Retention , Alliance of Bar Associations for Judicial Screening
'Outrageous': Cancer scare hits Lake County
Sens. Durbin, Duckworth decry lack of EPA oversight on ethylene oxide
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Ted Cox November 5, 2018 Dick Durbin , Tammy Duckworth , Sterigenics , Stop Sterigenics , Environmental Protection Agency , IEPA , Medline Industries , Vantage Specialty Chemicals , Ethylene Oxide , Bruce Rauner , Lisa Madigan
Obama leads call for values to dictate votes
Democratic rally for top candidates emphasizes values lost under Trump — like truth
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Ted Cox November 4, 2018 Barack Obama , Donald Trump , Dick Durbin , Sean Casten , Tammy Duckworth , Peter Roskam , Peanuts , Charles Schulz , Charlie Brown , Lucy Van Pelt , Juliana Stratton
Where We've Been: 17th St. BBQ
Tie goes to the sides in the hotly contested campaign to declare the state’s best ribs
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Senators seek EPA probe on Sterigenics
Durbin, Duckworth, Congressman Foster ask inspector general to investigate apparent cover-up
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Obamacare enrollment open
If President Trump won’t remind you, One Illinois will
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This vote is easy
In bicentennial election on greatest Illinois leader, debate starts after Lincoln
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Ted Cox November 1, 2018 Abraham Lincoln , REO Speedwagon , Miles Davis , Benny Goodman , Alison Krauss , Lydia Moss Bradley , Betty Friedan , Jane Addams , Michelle Obama , Ida B. Wells , Mother Jones , Hillary Clinton , Oprah Winfrey , Barack Obama , Black Hawk , Keokuk , Harold Washington , Ulysses Grant , Ronald Reagan , Stephen Douglas , Everett Dirksen , Adlai Stevenson II , William Jennings Bryan , Richard J. Daley , Jesse Jackson
Bikers kick Rauner to curb
State motorcycle group withdraws endorsement over governor’s support for self-driving cars
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Suit filed to shut down Sterigenics
Stop Sterigenics community group calls for immediate action from Gov. Rauner
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Six months in the Land of Lincoln: New video
One Illinois marks a glorious half-year of touring the state and telling the stories of its people
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Ted Cox October 30, 2018 Donald Trump , Bruce Rauner , Chris Lain , Lee Ann Porter , Rachael Heaton , Owen Muelder , Jean deDieu Ahorloo , Great River Tug Fest , Great River Road , Nachusa Grasslands , Bald Eagles , Illinois Eagles , Buckminster Fuller , Bucky Dome , Route 66 , Obed & Isaac's , Sterigenics , Dick Durbin , Andy Manar , Mike Henry , FOIA
Got a raise? Give it to health care
Study finds that rising health costs have far outpaced wage increases over the last two decades
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Ted Cox October 30, 2018 Economic Policy Institute , Josh Bivens , U.S. Health Care , Insurance Premiums , Health Costs , Working Families , Affordable Care Act , Obamacare , Kaiser Family Foundation , Pew Research Center
Trump spreads lies on stump for Bost, Republicans
President, congressman lie about tax cuts and about opponent Brendan Kelly
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Ted Cox October 29, 2018 Donald Trump , Mike Bost , Brendan Kelly , Randy Hultgren , Rodney Davis , Lauren Underwood , Betsy Dirksen Londrigan , Illinois Working Families , Health Care , Obamacare , Affordable Care Act , Tax Cuts , Trump Lies , Nancy Pelosi , Orrin Hatch , First Amendment , Sierra Club , Sierra Club Beyond Coal , CNN , Muslim Ban
'Cancer cluster' cover-up?
EPA, Rauner knew of heightened cancer risk at Sterigenics facility in Willowbrook for eight months before informing public
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Ted Cox October 29, 2018 Bruce Rauner , Lisa Madigan , Sterigenics , Stop Sterigenics , Illinois EPA , EPA , Donald Trump , Deregulation , Dick Durbin , Tammy Duckworth , Quincy Veterans Home , Legionnaires' Disease , Ethylene Oxide