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Chicago - Mayor Emanuel proposes legalizing marijuana, casino to pay for pensions 4 lunasun Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1834
Tillman claims he wants to work with Democrats on pension reform 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1551
Rock Island County courthouse demolition on hold pending state review 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1329
Transportation officials: Illinois gas tax increase is needed 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1156
Chicago Mayor's Nephew, Backer Got $9M in Fees, Most of That for Managing Deals That Tanked 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1134
Doctor Embroiled In Fraud, Sexual Abuse Scandal Falls Ill 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1315
Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker shows 'deep gratitude' for Gov. Bruce Rauner at Illinois bicentennial, says 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1259
Chicago Teachers Union votes to back Toni Preckwinkle in mayor's race 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 961
Bill Daley promises property tax freeze in his first TV ad for Chicago mayor 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1118
IL-06: Peter Roskum stoops below tRump in name-calling. 5 IllinoisBirdWatcher Oct 2018 Nov 2018 2 1483
Every vote counts, after a Gop was declared winner for our county sheriff, final 8 beachbum bob Nov 2018 Nov 2018 18 2125
wow, 6% reporting and Rauner already conceding! BAM! 3 consider_this Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1823
Why no celebrating African American Lauren Underwood's historic win? 21 whathehell Nov 2018 Nov 2018 17 4781
Aparently the turnout of student voters at University of Illinois-Champaign requires 1 beachbum bob Nov 2018 Nov 2018 9 1944
URGENT---Last Chance to Check Online & Make Sure Your Early Ballot Vote Has Been Counted! 0 PandoraAwakened Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 854
Amid talk of a potential blue wave, Democrats already have begun to turn the tide in GOP suburbs 3 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 7 1758
Will Democrats Casten, Underwood beat Republicans Roskam, Hultgren? 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1140
Rauner blasts unfavorable polls as 'baloney' on road for GOP candidates 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1047
Obama tells rally in Chicago: 'The character of our nation is on the ballot' 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 961
Illinois' big-money politics has some worried 2 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1295
Rauner, Pritzker differ on some criminal justice 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1105
Far out! Illinois Democrats think they've dropped in on the big one (Bluenami!) 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 7 1465
Preckwinkle's Democrats fund blue wave to swamp County Board Republicans 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 4 1131
Retaliation Lawsuit Against Michael Madigan Moves Forward With Discovery 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1168
Judge, prosecutor's office exchange notes 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 4 1577
Cook County judicial elections stir up unusual public scrutiny 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1080
New Fort Massac on the horizon with $2.8 million IDNR grant 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1072
Teachers' pension fund seeks 10 percent hike in state funds 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 984
This is why I will NOT use in person early voting in DuPage 3 Cadfael Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1387
Rauner and Trump will rally together in Southern Illinois today 9 lunasun Oct 2018 Nov 2018 2 2184

Illinois Continued...

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Does Anyone Know What Trump Had To Say At His Illinois Rally..... 5 global1 Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 1691
The latest funding raising reporting, democrats out raise GOper's 2-1 and in Il-13th 0 beachbum bob Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 960
Rauner-campaign-releases-new-blurred-version-of-f-bomb-ad-after-complaints 2 lunasun Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1326
Judge found not guilty of bringing gun to Chicago courthouse 1 left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1273
Candidates night in Boone county... 0 pbmus Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1017
Good news so far with early voting in Il-13th 4 beachbum bob Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1410
Unlike the title of the article, Davis did not "muddy the water" he outright LIED 0 beachbum bob Oct 2018 Oct 2018 4 1450
Info that the democrats have available in early voting lead in the Il-13th 0 beachbum bob Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 1291
First debate in Il-13th between Betsy Londrigan and incumbent Rodney David and 1 beachbum bob Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1248
Women's March to the Polls Kicks Off in Chicago 4 Gidney N Cloyd Oct 2018 Oct 2018 8 1456
Il-13th, Incumbent GOP'er Davis has 1 point lead over Betsy Londrigan. 0 beachbum bob Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1553
Indivisible Chicago's Blue Wave Rave uses improv to mobilize political action 1 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1108
Poll: Downstate voters more likely to consider voting for candidates accused of sexual harassment 2 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1315
Rauner vs. Kavanaugh--who's the biggest fraud? 5 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1534
Statehouse Insider: It's come to this in the governor's race 2 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1316
Fifty years ago, 35,000 Chicago students walked out of their classrooms in protest. They changed CPS 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1125
Insurance rates on Affordable Care Act exchange for Illinois stabilizing 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1044
NAACP building in Peoria vandalized 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1212
Schock's public corruption trial set for June 1 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 1143
Latest contracts bring Chicago hotel workers' strike down to four hotels 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 1104
How Jason Van Dyke guilty verdict may affect races for Chicago mayor, aldermen 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 1037
'Justice for Laquan!': Jury Finds Chicago Cop Guilty of Second-Degree Murder 2 guillaumeb Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1622
Sen. Dick Durbin says Kavanaugh confirmation 'would shake the confidence of millions of Americans' 4 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 10 1684
Union sues Treasure Island Foods, alleges closing grocer failed to give enough notice before layoffs 1 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1091
NEWS 2 Alternate Jurors Dismissed from Laquan McDonald Trial Say They Were Leaning Towards a Murder 4 lunasun Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1412
Republican headquarters vandalized (crosspost) 10 murielm99 Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 2028
Belleville Lube Shop Owner's Racist Talk Led to Firing, Mass Exodus, Workers Say 3 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Oct 2018 16 2264
Illinois 12 is a toss up on Real clear politics now 9 The Polack MSgt Sep 2018 Sep 2018 4 1922
Pregnancy Crisis Center (crosspost) 2 murielm99 Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 1347
Schnucks to fill 1,000 jobs as a result of Shop 'n Save purchase 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 1329

Illinois Continued...

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There is a Democratic candidate running 5 murielm99 Sep 2018 Sep 2018 7 1551
License revoked...but in Chicago that means business as usual... 3 pbmus Sep 2018 Sep 2018 4 1527
No Vacancies on the Picket Line in Chicago 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 4 1215
Ex-Illinois House leader Lang cleared of sexual harassment 1 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 1047
Attorney General Lisa Madigan says she won't run for Chicago mayor 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 0 1109
Dirty rooms, check-in delays, managers changing the sheets: Downtown strike puts hotels in a bind 1 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 7 1420
3 teens shot near Chatham Academy High School 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 5 1500
Payment to Nick Provenzano from Rep. Hultgren's office was for work before firing 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 973
Governor declares 2018 harvest emergency 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 1663
Happier days at Eastern Illinois University 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1072
Brendan Kelly up with 4th TV ad 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 959
Lauren Underwood, R.N. goes up with first TV ad 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 4 1153
Join Blue Beginning as it sends the Democratic troops into the collar counties 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 2 1040
State Farm reaches $250M deal in conspiracy lawsuit funneling money to former Ill. SC Chief Justice 1 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 7 1332
PhD student fatally shot by stray bullet in Chicago within four hours of being in the city 3 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1637
illinois GOP eating their own, wonderful to see 2 beachbum bob Sep 2018 Sep 2018 4 2123
Rauner says AG should prosecute Madigan 21 TexasTowelie Aug 2018 Aug 2018 0 4444
Your gerrymandered district is part of the reason....those thanksgiving dinners torn apart 6 pbmus Aug 2018 Aug 2018 3 2060
An ad I wish Pritzker would run 2 Fortinbras Armstrong Aug 2018 Aug 2018 2 1464
Rauner Pulled A Silly Publicity Stunt In My Town Sunday 0 ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 Aug 2018 0 1066
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