Is Donald Trump About To Be Replaced As President American Patriot 11/20/2016 Donald Trump won a resounding electoral mandate. But that hasn’t stopped some establishment figures from hatching plots to deny him his Presidency. And the latest scheme cooked by insiders is a...
    Will County officials want to reduce tax levy by $1M; raise court fees Susan DeMar LaffertyContact Reporter Daily Southtown Will County officials may be forced to cut another $1 million out of their proposed budget after the Finance Committee voted Tuesday to...
Balich: Will County Board members should be allowed to carry guns Susan DeMar LaffertyContact ReporterDaily Southtown A week before the Orlando massacre, Will County Board member Steve Balich, R-Homer Township, crafted a proposed resolution that would allow him and his fellow...
What gives, Sullivan? Sun, 12/18/2016 - 7:00am | The News-Gazette By ADAM ANDRZEJEWSKI OpenTheBooks.com Earlier this spring, at OpenTheBooks.com, we identified more than 50,000 Illinois public employees who make at least $100,000 per year. These "highly compensated" public servants cost Illinois taxpayers over $8...
IOP Response to 2016 State of the State By Matthew Besler   A year ago, Bruce Rauner ended 12 years of one-party rule in Illinois. Those 12 years capped off 40 years of Democrat rule in the Illinois General Assembly. As Governor...
Chairman's Comments 7/29/2016 "The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become...
It’s Just A Game, State Workers By Pat Hughes   It’s bad enough that, after decades of Mike Madigan’s leadership, the state can’t pay its bills. But now, his daughter, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, wants to take away the ability of state...
For the first time Kristen McQueary speaks publicly about the repercussions from her Hurricane Katrina column. And, as someone who has covered Chicago and Illinois politics for the past 15 years, she offers candid assessments of Mayor Rahm Emanuel,...
  By zerohedge 9/24/2016 Confirming what many had suspected when viewing the sudden and intense collapse into anarchy that occurred in Charlotte this week, Todd Walther, spokesman for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police told CNN’s Erin Burnett: “This is not Charlotte that’s...
Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a stopgap budget and education funding measure into law late Thursday. After weeks of struggling to come to an agreement, Republicans and Democrats have settled on Senate Bill 1810, which will fund government operations for the next six...

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