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February 2019 Posts

Vaccinate your kids! (02-28)
Pritzker appoints tollway board on deadline day (02-28)
Amtrak malfunction causes another Metra meltdown (02-28)
Question of the day (02-28)
Unmined territory for Lightfoot, Preckwinkle (02-28)
Beware the reformers (02-28)
It's just a bill (02-28)
Calculate your ‘fair share’ under a progressive income tax (02-28)
We really need a capital bill (02-28)
Today's must-read (02-28)
Supporting a liberal to... own the libs? (02-28)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (02-28)
What are the financial benefits of credit union membership in Illinois? (02-28)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-28)
DSA gains ground in aldermanic races (02-27)
Question of the day (02-27)
The battle begins (02-27)
Musical interlude: "I'm a loser" (02-27)
It's just a bill (02-27)
Can you update the names, please? (02-27)
Should the cheeseheads back off Kinzinger? (02-27)
Never tweet (02-27)
Tuesday's biggest loser: Arizona-style pension reform (02-27)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-27)
A return to a semblance of normalcy (02-26)
Ayala named new state school superintendent (02-26)
Question of the day (02-26)
Belvidere's loss and Michigan's gain (02-26)
Pardon my rant (02-26)
Fitch warns Pritzker budget could lead to downgrade (02-26)
Afternoon precinct reports (02-26)
The state's neglect of higher education (02-26)
The next public health problem from the opioid epidemic: Congenital Syphilis (02-26)
Support House Bill 1613 (02-26)
Pritzker replaces Meeks as ISBE chairman, appoints several other members (02-26)
What real leadership looks like (02-26)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Pritzker visits southern Illinois flood zones (02-26)
A very troubling DCFS statistic (02-26)
A third of Pritzker's revenue proposals comes from one-off sources (02-26)
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Morning precinct reports (02-26)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-26)
Question of the day (02-25)
It's just a bill (02-25)
There's no time like the present (02-25)
Counting all votes is not a "nightmare scenario" (02-25)
Trump appears to forget Pritzker's name, but still calls him "my friend," promises help (02-25)
Martire: "We don't want to see a new ramp with new high payments down the road" (02-25)
The intolerable mess at DCFS (02-25)
Reign of terror? (02-25)
If you want this done, you probably have to get involved (02-25)
Tribune: Automatically issue arrest warrants for those who should, but don't turn in guns (02-25)
February inaction is no grand conspiracy (02-25)
Nice words, but numbers matter more (02-25)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-25)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (02-22)
Pritzker names Osman to head IDOT (02-22)
S&P: Pritzker budget "punts measures to address fiscal progress to future years" (02-22)
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"Either Anne Burke violated the judicial code of ethics or Toni Preckwinkle is lying" (02-22)
Baise, Brady and Durkin speak out against progressive income tax (02-22)
Question of the day (02-22)
The state's mind-boggling infrastructure needs (02-22)
"They’re putting nails in our coffins" (02-22)
College Republican leader alleges Krupa "easily and consistently" lies about his background (02-22)
The downside to making the pension buyout program permanent (02-22)
Pritzker wants a progressive tax vote this spring (02-22)
Illinois turns a blind eye to criminals with FOID cards (02-22)
I find this difficult to believe (02-22)
Today's feel-good story (02-22)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-22)
Preckwinkle boots Cisek (02-21)
Caption contest! (02-21)
The harm done by the "pension crisis" narrative (02-21)
What Is The Credit Union Difference? (02-21)
Unmentioned? (02-21)
Question of the day (02-21)
Pritzker wants to start phase-out of private school scholarship program (02-21)
Snoop Dogg will perform at Illinois State Fair (02-21)
Pritzker budget boosts early childhood education, child care (02-21)
Two vastly different ways of addressing the issue of consent (02-21)
Way to go, Tina (02-21)
A look at some of Pritzker's increased spending (02-21)
A quick look at Pritzker's new revenue streams (02-21)
A big nail unanimously driven into the drug war's coffin (02-21)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-21)
Pritzker builds budget speech around Henry Horner's legacy (02-20)
Question of the day (02-20)
Dispute between Statehouse reporters, Pritzker administration over budget briefing (02-20)
Supporters issue statements of support (02-20)
It wasn't all praise (02-20)
Budget address open thread (02-20)
Caption contest! (02-20)
Our state’s biggest budget problem (02-20)
It's just a bill (02-20)
Quick budget address roundup (02-20)
Fitch likes, criticizes aspects of Pritzker pension proposal, but says unlikely to affect near-term rating trajectory (02-20)
Rate the new anti-Daley TV ad (02-20)
Pritzker appoints new DHS, IDNR, IDFPR heads (02-20)
Evans puts mileage tax on ice (02-20)
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Today's chart (02-19)
Question of the day (02-19)
Don't forget this afternoon's cocktail party (02-19)
Random Chicago stuff (02-19)
It's just a bill (02-19)
Illinois Credit Unions: People Helping People (02-19)
Minimum wage react (02-19)
Vaccinate your kids! (02-19)
ISP explains how Aurora mass shooter kept his gun (02-19)
Quick budget preview (02-19)
Representative, your "conversations" are creating more heat than light (02-19)
Why Illinois can’t balance a budget (02-19)
The future always comes (02-19)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-19)
*** UPDATED x1 - Checked wrong box *** Oberweis files FEC paperwork to run for US Senate in 2020 (02-18)
Local 150 PAC promotes capital plan in two new TV ads (02-18)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list (02-17)
Illinois Credit Unions: People Helping People (02-15)
IEPA issues "seal order" on Sterigenics plant (02-15)
Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend (02-15)
Rep. Chapa LaVia will head IDVA after previous appointee bows out (02-15)
Question of the day (02-15)
Mary Morrissey named new executive director of DPI (02-15)
Transparency issues (02-15)
It's just a bill (02-15)
Amazon leads $700 million investment round for Rivian (02-15)
Hysterical much? (02-15)
Minimum wage roundup (02-15)
Poll: Five points separate five mayoral candidates as union money whacks Daley (02-15)
Should the state sell the Tollway to boost the pension funds? (02-15)
Southern Illinois state's attorney vows not to enforce assault weapons ban if it becomes law (02-15)
Daley would keep hope alive for those who want pension benefit cuts (02-15)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-15)
Question of the day (02-14)
With Griffin money and Tribune backing, does Daley still support a progressive income tax? (02-14)
Lawsuit claims "sham" by vendor assistance company that backed Mendoza (02-14)
*** UPDATED x2 - Hynes calls for $2 billion pension bond *** Hynes talks about state budget, pensions (02-14)
Bipartisan bill gives local voters power over 7,000 units of government (02-14)
Stop by for free cocktails next Tuesday! (02-14)
The IML might wanna rethink this logic (02-14)
Once this bill passes, Pritzker has some fence-mending to do (02-14)
Always scroll to the bottom (02-14)
House Progressive Caucus unveils agenda (02-14)
Remembering the LaRouchies (02-14)
It's just a bill (02-14)
Illinois Credit Unions: People Helping People (02-14)
Krupa sues over CTU letter (02-14)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-14)
By request of the Cook County Clerk (02-13)
Another Exelon bailout? (02-13)
Vaccinate your kids! (02-13)
It's just a bill (02-13)
Question of the day (02-13)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Update to today's edition (02-13)
Rivian could get huge cash boost from GM, Amazon (02-13)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Restaurant Association takes heat for minimum wage deal (02-13)
It's not even a bill, and probably won't be for a long time (02-13)
Hynes pitches a revamped pension ramp (02-13)
Everybody, calm down (02-13)
The inflation bite is not that huge (02-13)
The black exodus (02-13)
Pritzker transition report: Powering Illinois’ Future (02-13)
Pritzker transition report: Restorative Justice (02-13)
What happened after North Carolina canned its progressive income tax (02-13)
Daley called "Bruce Rauner’s mayor" for taking $1 million from Ken Griffin (02-13)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-13)
See you Wednesday! (02-11)
New Mendoza ad highlights her feud with Rauner (02-11)
Pritzker appoints taskforces to look at pension fund consolidation, state asset transfers (02-11)
*** UPDATED x2 *** We need a capital bill (02-11)
Unclear on the concept (02-11)
It's just a bill (02-11)
Question of the day (02-11)
RIP (02-11)
Attorney general, state's attorney file writ of mandamus on Van Dyke prison sentence (02-11)
Big Marijuana: The Next Big Tobacco Industry (02-11)
Pritzker puts Stratton in charge of new Justice, Equity and Opportunity Initiative (02-11)
Because... Burke! (02-11)
Elections have consequences (02-11)
Hats off to the Civic Committee (02-11)
We're gonna need a bigger boat (02-11)
The only game in town next year? (02-11)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-11)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (02-08)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Fundraiser list (02-08)
Madigan pitches minimum wage hike to party faithful (02-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Governor's office expresses frustration over Sterigenics issue (02-08)
Question of the day (02-08)
Step brothers (02-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Preckwinkle supports *** Pritzker calls Amazon after company balks at NYC (02-08)
Rep. Guzzardi rips Ald. Moreno for mailer (02-08)
Unclear on the concept (02-08)
Minimum wage odds and ends (02-08)
It's just a bill (02-08)
Krupa denies new allegations through attorney (02-08)
Digging out (02-08)
Pritzker estimates FY20 deficit at $3.2 billion (02-08)
Because... Chicago! (02-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Will Pritzker finally release his transition report? (02-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Weirdest argument ever (02-08)
Amid cutbacks elsewhere, Ford to invest $1 billion in Chicago-area plants (02-08)
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*** UPDATED x1 *** Fed up unions sue opioid industry (02-07)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - This just in... (02-07)
Question of the day (02-07)
Illinois' best political cartoons in your inbox (02-07)
It's just a bill (02-07)
J.B. vs. JB (02-07)
Illlinois is close to getting first full-time Legislative Inspector General since 2014 (02-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Pritzker opposes proposed ICE detention facility in Dwight (02-07)
Sterigenics meeting today (02-07)
Pro-biz groups split on state budget (02-07)
Illinois Credit Union: Giving back to the Communities we Serve (02-07)
*** UPDATED x4 *** Minimum wage roundup (02-07)
Mendoza turns sights on MCOs (02-07)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-07)
Vaccinate your kids! (02-06)
Minimum wage bill surfaces in Senate (02-06)
Question of the day (02-06)
It's just a bill (02-06)
Caption contest! (02-06)
The newspaper game: Broke at the bottom, flush at the top (02-06)
Today's quotable (02-06)
Hey, governor! Remember Sterigenics? (02-06)
"People and Planet First Agenda" announced (02-06)
We're all gonna die! (02-06)
Local governments present pension fund consolidation plans (02-06)
Naperville city council debates Rep. Stava-Murray comments (02-06)
Timing is everything (02-06)
Report: Sports betting could bring in $100 million (02-06)
Durbin falls for junk science (02-06)
As expected, Pritzker isn't loving the Civic Committee's idea (02-06)
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*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-06)
Alderman behaving badly (02-05)
Pritzker starts talking like the state's chief marketing officer (02-05)
The destination is right, but the path is flawed (02-05)
Question of the day (02-05)
Skillicorn mulls Underwood challenge (02-05)
It's just a bill (02-05)
Gun Dealer Licensing Act consequences? (02-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Update to today's edition (02-05)
Stop the wind NIMBYs (02-05)
Dancing around the edges (02-05)
Less than a thousand exempt slots now under governor's control (02-05)
Raoul, special prosecutor meet to discuss Van Dyke sentence (02-05)
Hard push begins this week for $15 an hour minimum wage (02-05)
"God put it on this planet for a reason" (02-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Supplement to today's edition (02-05)
SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today's edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password) (02-05)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-05)
Anybody want to buy a giant slide? (02-04)
Question of the day (02-04)
Report: Sun-Times defied federal judge in publishing Solis info (02-04)
The limits of oppo (02-04)
UIUC facing racial harassment lawsuit (02-04)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Oppo dump! (02-04)
Unclear on the concept (02-04)
It's just a bill (02-04)
LIII open thread (02-04)
Catholic bishops say "No" to cannabis legalization (02-04)
"How about anything, Danny?" (02-04)
A few early issues that could tell us how Pritzker will govern for four years (02-04)
Patience, please (02-04)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-04)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (02-01)
Question of the day (02-01)
Todd Ricketts joins Trump Victory Committee (02-01)
Report issued on one-year anniversary of Debt Transparency Act (02-01)
Pritzker signs EO to help end HIV epidemic (02-01)
Tell me another fairy tale, grandpa (02-01)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Mayoral race odd couples (02-01)
Read the full Madigan deposition (02-01)
It’s Time To Put Our Progressive Values Into Action (02-01)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** (02-01)

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