Radogno op-ed: CPS gets more than its fair share from Illinois Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at center, stands with, from left, former Chicago Public Schools president David Vitale, CPS CEO Forrest Claypool and nchief of education officer Janice Jackson at a...
When teachers threaten a strike, call their bluff Prospect Heights School District 23 teachers and staff walk the picket line during the weeklong strike in September. The school board president says every job opening in the district draws up to...
AGAINST THE CURRENT ATC: Dan Proft & Bethany McLean What drove the housing market crash in 2008? Is today’s federal housing policy leading us back to the same place we were when the bubble burst? In what form do the GSEs,...
UPDATE X1: MARTER RESPONDS. KIRK VOTES "NO" ON BILL TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD, REPEAL OBAMACARE UPDATE x1: Kirk's GOP primary opponent James Marter responded to Kirk's vote Friday morning, saying that Kirk has promised since 2010 to repeal the Affordable Care...
The Capitol rotunda in Springfield, Ill., where Democrats control both chambers of the legislature. Credit Andrew A. Nelles for The New York Times A Wealthy Governor and His Friends Are Remaking Illinois Unprecedented political spending helped elect a fresh-faced financier. But his ideological...
A group started  to address the situation at D211 concerning Privacy in locker rooms and bathrooms *** District 211 Community Alert ** The District 211 Board of Education is scheduled to take formal action regarding the complaint filed by the ACLU with...
Dan Proft presents “An Upstream Idea”. With the release of the dash cam video for Laquan McDonald, it is clear that with the Chicago Democrat power structure, justice is delayed so that political ambitions are not denied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mccn6QDHsT8 “16 shots!” That is...

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10 Reasons Illinois Bureaucrats (And Their Friends) Are Thankful Today Adam Andrzejewski CONTRIBUTOR I cover the “daily greed” of local, state and national politics. FOLLOW ON FORBES (26) Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. CHICAGO, IL – MAY 24, 2012: U.S. Attorney Patrick...
A nation in mourning and the world in shock David A. Lombardo 11/21/2015 The CNN online headline said of the terrorist attack in Paris, "Scores were killed in the coordinated attacks late Friday, leaving a nation in mourning and the world...
ILLINOIS BY THE NUMBERS Illinois By The Numbers: 97 The Chicago Teachers’ Union recently took a mock vote as to whether or not to go out on strike. 97% of CPS teachers voted yes, they are prepared to go out on...

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