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'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
Trump combines bluster, humor, and grief
The president denounced anti-Semitism, but then played to a partisan crowd of thousands in a political rally at Southern Illinois Airport
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Trump stumps at Southern Illinois Airport rally
President out to boost local congressman, but will Gov. Rauner seek his blessing too?
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Higher minimum wage would boost state economy
A hike in the Illinois minimum wage would affect up to one in four workers and potentially add $19 billion to the state economy, according to a new study
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Progressive groups protest against Harold
Erika Harold, candidate for attorney general, pledged to uphold state law and protect all Illinoisans against discrimination
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Ted Cox October 25, 2018 Erika Harold , Julie Lynn , Mike Ziri , Planned Parenthood of Illinois , Equality Illinois , Sierra Club , Moms Demand Action , SEIU , NARAL , Barack Obama , Martin Luther King , Obamacare , Affordable Care Act , City Club of Chicagio , City Club of Chicago , Illinois Abortion Rights , Opioid Abuse , Workers' Compensation
Court slaps Rauner, labor panel on 'impasse'
AFSCME Council 31 urges governor to return to bargaining table in good faith
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Rauner, Roskam blow anti-LGBTQ 'dog whistle'
Equality Illinois says it’s no coincidence Rauner ad uses gay marriage to link Pritzker, Madigan
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Ted Cox October 24, 2018 Bruce Rauner , Peter Roskam , Sean Casten , Dan Savage , Brian Johnson , Equality Illinois , Rich Miller , Capitol Fax , J.B. Pritzker , Michael Madigan , LGBTQ , Marriage Equality , Gay Rights , Santorum , Rick Santorum , It Gets Better Project
Rauner rips pensions while profiting off them
Rauner blames public pensions for state funding woes, even as his former firm made huge profits off them
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Ted Cox October 23, 2018 Bruce Rauner , Gary Rivlin , Jay Rehak , Ralph Martire , The Intercept , GTCR , Illinois Public Unions , Illinois Public Pensions , Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund , Janus
Illinois flat tax among most unfair in U.S.
Prairie State has eighth-worst tax system in nation, says new study on equality
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