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November 2018 Posts

Reader comments closed for the weekend (11-30)
Shenanigans! (11-30)
Question of the day (11-30)
Special master appointed for DCFS (11-30)
Foxx, Gordon-Booth, Kelly to co-chair Pritzker's Restorative Justice and Safe Communities Committee (11-30)
Today's number: 70,237 human beings (11-30)
Women lost ground in the Illinois House (11-30)
If the governor had fixed this problem, then the GA wouldn't have stepped in (11-30)
Ed Burke round-up (11-30)
The governor talks about the election and the future of the ILGOP (11-30)
So far, the transition is going smoothly (11-30)
*** UPDATED x1 - ITLA responds *** Rauner blasts legislators for "major giveaway to the trial lawyers" (11-30)
Direct Energy Celebrates National Caring Month (11-30)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-30)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-30)
Today's quotable (11-29)
Tobacco 21 dies while car-sharing companies force a compromise (11-29)
Illinois Supreme Court kills off another attempt at pension reform (11-29)
*** LIVE *** Rauner press conference (11-29)
What Is The Credit Union Difference? (11-29)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Calendars and vetoes (11-29)
Bustos elected DCCC chair (11-29)
FEJA Will Make Solar Power Accessible for All (11-29)
The rest of the story (11-29)
*** UPDATED x2 - Taxes? - Ward office raided, too *** This may not end well (11-29)
House expunges Kifowit's remarks (11-29)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner sues attorney general, One Illinois over FOIA issue (11-29)
Rauner's VOICES Act veto overridden by both chambers (11-29)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Anecdotes are not data (11-29)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-29)
Question of the day (11-28)
It's just a bill (11-28)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (11-28)
An "appearance of backroom deals" likely just a case of "lost in the shuffle" (11-28)
Gonzales attorneys win right to "inspect" Madigan's offices (11-28)
Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Butt out, Springfield, and let people rent out their own cars (11-28)
What are the financial benefits of credit union membership in Illinois? (11-28)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Hey, kids, don't try this at home (11-28)
Ives' new pension legal theory (11-28)
AFSCME: Rauner has spent $6 million on outside attorneys to fight unions (11-28)
Pritzker embraces big state and local education spending increases (11-28)
Caption contest! (11-28)
"The Sucker State" (11-28)
*** UPDATED x1 - Kifowit apologizes *** Tone it down, please (11-28)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-28)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-28)
Study: Illinois workers' comp premiums drop from 8th highest in nation to 22nd (11-27)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Update to today's edition and a little something else (11-27)
Question of the day (11-27)
Orr urges three "modest" election reforms (11-27)
Pritzker transition announces Educational Success Committee (11-27)
Trade war hits home (11-27)
The blue suburban wave (11-27)
VOTE NO on the SB 2641 override (11-27)
Comptroller report sheds some new light on Vendor Payment Program (11-27)
The politicking that brought the U of I to Champaign-Urbana (11-27)
The hollowing out of state government (11-27)
What Turo Doesn’t Want You to Know (11-27)
21 candidates file to run for mayor (11-27)
A look ahead to the final veto session week (11-27)
Thousands still without power after blizzard (11-27)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-27)
Pritzker transition unveils Powering Illinois’ Future Committee (11-26)
One place to look for capital plan cash (11-26)
HDems will have 74 seats, SDems will have 40 (11-26)
Listen, Lead, Share Shows Urgency for Clean Energy Future (11-26)
Readers' guide to the latest car-sharing stories (11-26)
Appeals court to McCann: "This is emphatically not our job" (11-26)
Question of the day (11-26)
Today's number: 1.9 million miles over the past two years (11-26)
Um, how can a statement be "technically correct" and "mostly false" at the same time? (11-26)
Climate change report has dire projections for Midwest (11-26)
A tragic failure (11-26)
College costs up, graduations down (11-26)
The hollowing out of state government (11-26)
Blizzard slams northern Illinois (11-26)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-26)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Tonight's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-20)
Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend (11-20)
Sen. Connelly concedes (11-20)
Question of the day (11-20)
GOMB: State needs another $3+ billion a year to stay even (11-20)
Raoul announces transition committee (11-20)
*** UPDATED x1 *** The Democrats' vote-by-mail juggernaut (11-20)
Why the Firearms Restraining Order Act is so important (11-20)
Pension benefits are not cut in the abstract (11-20)
The way forward (11-20)
Yes, something can be done (11-20)
Monday's heroes (11-20)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-20)
Question of the day (11-19)
Open thread (11-19)
Pritzker lawyers file biting legal response to lawsuit (11-19)
"The harder you work, the luckier you get" (11-19)
Pritzker attended National Governors Association "boot camp" (11-19)
Mapes starts consulting firm, blasted by accuser (11-19)
VOTE NO on the SB 2641 override (11-19)
New Pritzker transition committee: "Equality, Equity and Opportunity" (11-19)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-19)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-19)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (11-16)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list (11-16)
Illinois Credit Unions: Giving Back to the Communities We Serve (11-16)
Maybe not (11-16)
It's just a bill (11-16)
Ridiculous felony charges finally dropped (11-16)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - The way ahead (11-16)
DCers gonna DC (11-16)
More evidence that Gov. Rauner's term isn't ending like he intended (11-16)
Question of the day (11-16)
Thank you for putting safety first by supporting rules for car rental platforms (11-16)
5 types of natural gas plans explained (11-16)
The "hollowing out" of state government, Part 29,487 (11-16)
Line starts forming for possible 2020 comptroller's race (11-16)
Unclear on the concept (11-16)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-16)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - This just in... (11-15)
Question of the day (11-15)
Pritzker announces new health-related transition committee (11-15)
Hickenlooper talks about legalizing weed (11-15)
Barickman, Butler want state audit of Lincoln foundation's financial connection to ALPLM (11-15)
Listen, Lead, Share Shows Urgency for Clean Energy Future (11-15)
About yesterday's Tom threat (11-15)
Musical interlude: Shakedown Street (11-15)
Rauner's VOICES Act veto looks doomed (11-15)
It's just a bill (11-15)
Study finds at least a third of sampled prisoner deaths were preventable (11-15)
Illinois still one huge hurdle away from increasing legal cigarette smoking age (11-15)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Subpoenas fly from Adams County grand jury (11-15)
Maybe we got lucky? (11-15)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-15)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-15)
*** UPDATED x1 - All-clear given *** Statehouse evacuated (11-14)
Question of the day (11-14)
Mendoza react (11-14)
One last Jason Helland story (11-14)
"On Tuesday night" doesn't mean anything at all (11-14)
State loophole allows property tax avoidance (11-14)
Well, here's one way of getting an Oscar pic on the blog (11-14)
Direct Energy Proudly Supports Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (11-14)
The very real consequences of "hollowing out" state government (11-14)
Madigan says he's on board with legalizing pot, graduated income tax (11-14)
Skeptical lawmakers confront Lincoln foundation (11-14)
Mendoza launches mayoral campaign via video (11-14)
Don’t believe rental car companies distortions and half truths (11-14)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-14)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-14)
Amended complaint filed in Pritzker campaign case and staffer tries to explain "blackface" incident (11-13)
Asked and answered (11-13)
"The most overrated issue facing state government" (11-13)
Troy LaRaviere drops out of mayor's race as Rep. La Shawn Ford gets in (11-13)
Question of the day (11-13)
The way ahead (11-13)
Moms on an independent mission (11-13)
Car-sharing showdown (11-13)
Veto session preview (11-13)
Incoming House Democrat calls for "No" votes on Madigan (11-13)
A few minutes with JB Pritzker (11-13)
Rauner, Pritzker to make "unity" appearance at scaled-down bicentennial event (11-13)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-13)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-13)
Counting all the ballots takes time, and for good reason (11-12)
County Democratic Chairs organization elects suburban woman as new president (11-10)
Sen. Nybo concedes to Glowiak (11-10)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Vote-counting updates: Connelly; Morrison; Lake County; Walsh; Nybo (11-09)
Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend (11-09)
Ives puts faith in Madigan to hold the line on tax hikes (11-09)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: Campaign update (11-09)
5 tips to understand your natural gas plan (11-09)
A look ahead at what Pritzker wants to do (11-09)
Our two states (11-09)
The hollowing-out of state government (11-09)
Question of the day (11-09)
Legal pot is on the way (11-09)
McCann claims established political party status in over 80 counties (11-09)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-09)
RIP JBT (11-08)
Preckwinkle refused resignation of chief of staff she later fired over sexual harassment allegations (11-08)
Will and Lake County boards flip from "red" to "blue" (11-08)
Edgar and Pritzker heap praise on each other (11-08)
Question of the day (11-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Problem found, fixed *** As many as 24,000 votes may be missing in McHenry County (11-08)
What Is The Credit Union Difference? (11-08)
More from that Fox/AP analysis (11-08)
Sorry, but you wanted this and you voted for it (11-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Nybo denies he conceded *** Nybo, Breen concede (11-08)
Pritzker strives for bipartisanship while doomsayers warn of hopelessness (11-08)
Pritzker says no "artificial progressive income tax" on horizon (11-08)
Pritzker announces "budget and innovation" transition committee (11-08)
Non-college whites, white men, independent women, evangelicals and seniors were Rauner's constituencies (11-08)
Mendoza's next move (11-08)
More on the Champaign County blowout (11-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-08)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-08)
Question of the day (11-07)
Betsy Dirksen Londrigan concedes to Rodney Davis (11-07)
Ives bitterly attacks 54 percent of voters day after election (11-07)
Speaker Madigan: "The GOP attacks were a desperate, out of touch attempts to fracture the party and underestimate voters" (11-07)
Taxes, Madigan, taxes, Rauner (11-07)
Turn to technology to keep the lights on in the face of disaster (11-07)
A squeaker and a shocker (11-07)
Um, this was not why Roskam lost (11-07)
"We need a lot more purple thinking" (11-07)
Caprara named chief of staff as Pritzker announces transition committee (11-07)
Random numbers (11-07)
What happened nationally? (11-07)
No, that's not what happened (11-07)
Tribune wants new Republican legislative leaders (11-07)
A Champaign sweep (11-07)
Madigan regains supermajority (11-07)
The suburban massacre (11-07)
Under the bus he goes (11-07)
Counties don't vote (11-07)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-07)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-07)
Contested Illinois Senate election results (11-06)
Contested Illinois House election results (11-06)
Illinois statewide election results (11-06)
Where to find election results tonight (11-06)
Well, so much for that idea (11-06)
2018 declared winners (11-06)
Watch election night video (11-06)
Late afternoon/early evening precinct reports (11-06)
Question of the day (11-06)
Mid-afternoon precinct reports (11-06)
Credit Unions: A Unique Concept for Financial Services (11-06)
Late morning/early afternoon precinct reports (11-06)
Illinois Policy Institute demands retraction, attempts to rewrite history (11-06)
Today's Underwood number: 93 percent (11-06)
A fun way to kill time while we wait for the polls to close (11-06)
Ives makes her case for 2022 (11-06)
Mid-morning precinct reports (11-06)
He's learned nothing (11-06)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-06)
Early morning precinct reports (11-06)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-06)
Note to blog readers (11-05)
Early voting among yutes up 144 percent here (11-05)
Todd Ricketts is on Erika Harold's fly-around? (11-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list; Rep. Morrison video; Madigan lawsuit; Etc. (11-05)
Closing it out (11-05)
Illinois Policy Institute claims budget impasse may have hurt job growth more than tax hike (11-05)
Your feel-good story of the day (11-05)
Question of the day (11-05)
Obama stumps for the Democrats (11-05)
Rauner wraps it up (11-05)
*** UPDATED x1 - Durbin, Duckworth call for Shah's resignation *** Was this the origin of the Quincy veterans' home outbreak? (11-05)
Watch the VBM numbers (11-05)
Sign wars head to court (11-05)
When was Rauner's fate sealed? (11-05)
Today's quotable (11-05)
My favorite photo of the season (11-05)
*** UPDATED x2 - Underwood responds *** Poll: Hultgren trailing by 6 into the home stretch (11-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (11-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-05)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-05)
Saturday campaign roundup (11-03)
Speaker Madigan transfers $1 million to Kwame Raoul from personal campaign fund (11-02)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (11-02)
Question of the day (11-02)
Oppo dump! (11-02)
NBC5 obtains Mendoza mayoral announcement video (11-02)
Here we go again! (11-02)
Governor's race roundup (11-02)
Today's must-read (11-02)
Two more closing ads (11-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** DPI says its voter protection hotline has received over 700 calls (11-02)
What really matters (11-02)
What's Jeanne Ives' next step? (11-02)
ACLU, legislators demand action from DCFS (11-02)
When did this become a thing? (11-02)
Musical interlude: You can't do that (11-02)
The "Chicago nest of malfeasance" (11-02)
Behind Pritzker's online push (11-02)
Charlie Baker vs. Bruce Rauner (11-02)
Caption contest! (11-02)
Because... Madigan! (11-02)
*** UPDATED x1 *** SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-02)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (11-02)
Question of the day (11-01)
DAGA up with TV ad attacking Harold on abortion (11-01)
Direct Energy Proudly Supports Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago (11-01)
Southern Illinois Democrat touts his vote for Trump in new TV ad (11-01)
Hultgren being outspent by vast amount (11-01)
What are the financial benefits of credit union membership in Illinois? (11-01)
Today's campaign tchotchke (11-01)
More closing ads (11-01)
Placing blame where it belongs (11-01)
On to victory! (11-01)
TRS needs an additional $400 million next fiscal year (11-01)
Report: Michael Sacks is bidding on tronc (11-01)
*** UPDATED x1 - Fitzgerald responds *** Today's lit drop (11-01)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (11-01)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (11-01)

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