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Chicago Mayor calls for $1B more from Springfield; fuels call for "New Illinois" CHICAGO - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's staff has been digging through the financial mess left behind by Democrat former Mayor Rahm Emanuel - and it's becoming more...

PROTESTERS CLASH AFTER FATAL MOUNT GREENWOOD POLICE-INVOLVED SHOOTING EMBED </>MORE NEWS VIDEOS Protesters clashed in the city's Mount Greenwood neighborhood on Sunday. (WLS) Laura Podesta and Will Jones Sunday, November 06, 2016 11:45PM CHICAGO (WLS) -- Protesters clashed Sunday afternoon near the site of a deadly...

As president and founder of the LaBranche Family Foundation Inc. (LFF) in Bolingbrook, Rowsha LaBranche helps families facing financial challenges throughout Will County and its border communities. Read more..

There was an offender convicted of a financial crime or fraud released on parole near Illinois zip code 60490 during 2018, according to Illinois Department of Corrections data obtained by the Will County Gazette. Read more..

There was an offender convicted of a crime involving alcohol released on parole near Illinois zip code 60586 during the first quarter, according to Illinois Department of Corrections data obtained by the Will County Gazette. Read more..

Tim Mapes, House Speaker Mike Madigan’s chief of staff, embarked on an interesting challenge last week. Mapes spoke in Chicago as part of a panel the National Council of State Legislatures, or NCSL, sponsored. He was slated to speak not...

BGA Public Eye: CPS doesn’t know what happened to equipment from 50 closed schools WRITTEN BY BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION POSTED: 01/16/2016, 11:15PM Two years after Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed a record 50 schools over low enrollment, officials say they don’t know...

Chicago has a $27 billion underfunded pension (remember Illinois has an even larger one)  Chicago’s underfunded pension works out to $100,000 per citizen (population 2.7 million) Rahm has proposed the largest tax increase in Chicago history, a $588 million dollar...

Sean Morrison Letter to the Editor/ Cook County fuel tax A 66% tax increase to Cook County’s special use gasoline and fuel tax has been proposed by Commissioner Richard Boykin. This proposed tax increase has been earmarked to fund several...

Money, Support for Migrant ‘Caravans’ Flow Through Chicago Steve Balich Editors note: Catholic Charities, Lutheran Caharites and other religious charities are getting millions of Federal dollars to illegally help these illegals come here. Kevin Mooney Migrants on their way to the...