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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Next week, Springfield voters will choose whether to accept or deny a ballot question guiding the city on creating a landlord registry across the capital city.
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(The Center Square) – On Monday, Matthew Unglesbee, a 37-year-old Quincy resident, was charged with mailing threatening letters to multiple members of the state’s congressional delegation.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Eight days from the 2026 general election, fuel prices in the Midwestern Great Lakes region are again on the rise following more new issues at one Illinois refinery and continued global conflict.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A planned race-restricted event at a public park in Geneva is raising questions about anti-discrimination policies, with former Illinois state representative and Breakthrough Ideas CEO Jeanne Ives urging local officials to examine whether such gatherings comply with the law after an LGBTQ organization postponed a bonfire advertised for Black, Indigenous and other people of color.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Former Riverdale Mayor Lawrence Jackson’s six-month federal prison sentence for lying under oath about his financial ties to a waste industry businessman highlights the importance of financial disclosure and accountability in local government, a transparency analyst says.
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(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump released a series of posts late last week endorsing multiple statewide Republican candidates.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A proposed Braidwood Fire Protection District tax increase that would raise its annual property tax extension by nearly 87% is drawing scrutiny over the cost to taxpayers and the district’s use of outside consultants for public outreach.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — Cook County has filed its primary brief in defense of its ban on so-called "assault weapons" before the U.S. Supreme Court, as the county's state's attorney argues the ban should be considered constitutional because state and local governments should be free to prohibit "exceptionally dangerous" weapons and, if people living in such places wish to own such weapons, they are free to leave.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson turned in the required signatures to the Chicago Board of Elections Friday for him to run for reelection, officially joining the crowded field of candidates in doing so.
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Brief filed in Cook County assault weapons ban case
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