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(The Center Square) – Early voting begins in Illinois on Thursday morning, but the state’s 40-day early voting period is accompanied by additional taxpayer costs.
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has expanded its permanent injunction against the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act to include federal credit unions.
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(The Center Square) – According to a new report, the Chicago Police Department has far overspent its budget in recent years, thanks mainly to overtime and court settlements.
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(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed an executive order to create the Illinois Artificial Intelligence Cabinet.
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(The Center Square) – As fuel prices across the nation have steadily increased in recent months, taxpayers may wonder how local governments are handling price shocks, and if they’ll see it come tax season.
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(The Center Square) – As the next owner of the Chicago White Sox is publicly pushing his plans to relocate an Amtrak maintenance facility to build a new riverside stadium for the team, a broad coalition of residents near where the facility would be are flagging the partly federally funded project.
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(The Center Square) – Republican Illinois attorney general candidate Bob Fioretti said the U.S. Postal Service should have authority to establish uniform requirements for handling mail-in ballots, while Democratic Attorney General Kwame Raoul has challenged the federal rule in court.
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(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s latest appointee to the Capital Development Board is Dustin Ramage, business manager with Downstate Illinois Laborers' District Council and special international representative with Laborers' International Union of North America.
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(Legal Newsline) — A group of Muslim doctors have joined their names to the growing list of medical professionals, health care organizations and others seeking to strike down Illinois' state law creating a legal path for certain patients to take their lives through medically assisted suicide.
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(The Center Square) – The mayor of Chicago says data center policy must be looked at through the lens of environmental justice.
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(The Center Square) – Cook County School District 130 said on Monday that its schools are open and safe, and flyers encouraging families to keep their children at home on Monday were not from the district.
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(The Center Square) – As Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker appeared on a national news program Sunday, he avoided answering a question about the Democratic Party and if it should be tossing aside controversial influencer Hasan Piker – known for inflammatory rhetoric and what some describe as antisemitic comments.
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(The Center Square) – The Federal Reserve board’s recent decision to raise interest rates a quarter point may have expensive implications for Illinois taxpayers.
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