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Former mayor persists in lonely pursuit of answers in 1948 lovers lane murders
OREGON, Ill. — Steve Gecan emerged from the VFW post and eased his 88-year-old frame into his pickup. He still remembers the murders — and all the theories. "Everybody had an idea" about who killed two people on a lovers lane here in 1948,...
Tags: Murder, Justice System, Judges, Laws, Ghosts (supernatural entities)
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Legislators generous with scholarships before start of ban
Even as the troubled legislative scholarship program was on its last legs, state lawmakers continued to make questionable choices and show possible political favoritism in awarding the free college tuition, a Tribune analysis found. The newspaper's...
Tags: Chicago Hotels, Daniel J Burke, John J Cullerton, Students, Elections
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Many Chicago Democrats untapped by pro-Obama super PAC
So far, almost all of Chicago's top Democratic donors have abstained from giving to Priorities USA Action, the leading super PAC supporting President Barack Obama's re-election campaign. According to records released late Thursday, only a half-dozen or...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Elections, Local Elections, Democratic Party, Federal Election Commission
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Court hearing set for Wednesday, after union vote
Tribune reportersChicago Public Schools students will miss a seventh day of classes Tuesday as Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attempt to get the courts to quickly end the teachers strike did not produce immediate results. Instead, a judge opted to hear arguments on the mayor's...Tags: Judges, Unions, Laws, Freedom of the Press, Teachers
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Towns borrow, you pay
Just above the cash register at Sam's Auto Service, the owner has taped up a photo of his elderly father, a snapshot of his granddaughter and his property tax bills. Owner Bassam Shaheen knows it may seem odd to tape up an old $53,000 annual tax bill....
Tags: Property Tax, Taxation, Petroleum Industry, Bankruptcy, Elections
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Emanuel cancels Democratic fundraisers during strike
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel has temporarily suspended fundraising on behalf of Democratic super PACS to devote his attention to bringing the teachers' strike to an end, according to his political operation. Emanuel was scheduled to attend a House Majority...Tags: Joe Walsh, Bill Foster, Elections, Tea Party Movement, Republican Party
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Unconventional
A nation of predominantly couch-bound television watchers got some bad news tonight, as President Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination and delivered the following line: "America's not about what can be done for us, it's about what can be done by...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul, Dallas Cowboys, Broadway Theater, Bain Capital, LLC
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Illinois Democratic National Convention notebook: Duncan, Jarrett, hugfest
Clout StreetArne Duncan, Obama’s education secretary and a former Chicago Public Schools chief, was asked by reporters about the possibility of a teachers’ strike back home in the nation’s third-largest school district. “I’m very...Tags: Cook County Board of Commissioners, 2012 Democratic National Convention, George Clooney, Elections, AFL-CIO
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Emanuel shifts to fundraising role for Obama
— Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will target the country's biggest Democratic donors for President Barack Obama's re-election effort to try to offset the Republican Party's money advantage, a new role that means he no longer is a co-chair of the...
Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, Political Fundraising, Elections, Local Elections, Republican Party
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Rahmfather, please come home. And get the good chips.
In what someday may be considered a stroke of absolute genius, President Barack Obama has decided to send Mayor Rahm Emanuel back home to watch TV in Chicago. Emanuel was prepared to spend days at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.,...
Tags: Murder, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Charlotte, Bankruptcy, Vladimir Putin
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Madigan's son's employer rakes in suburbs' insurance business
The son of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is forging a successful insurance career in the Chicago suburbs with the help of mayors who look to his powerful father to advance their political and legislative agendas. Andrew Madigan, 26, joined the...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Companies and Corporations, Michael Madigan, Elections, Local Elections
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Bayh joins Donnelly for tour around state
South Bend TribunePLYMOUTH -- In the past 35 years, only two Democrats have been elected to represent Indiana in the U.S. Senate. Both of them have the same last name: Bayh. Evan Bayh was Indiana's governor from 1989 to 1997 and a senator from 1999 to 2011. His father,...Tags: Richard Mourdock, Harry Reid, Elections, Joe Donnelly, Republican Party
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