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Illinois 70 mph highway speed limit bill sent to governor
Clout StreetThe Illinois House today sent Gov. Pat Quinn legislation that would raise the speed limit on non-urban interstate highways from 65 mph to 70 mph. Supporters said increasing the limit would put Illinois in line with neighboring states and help the...Tags: Illinois Department of Transportation, Motorvehicle Accidents, Regional Authority, Jack D Franks, Pat Quinn
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Truckload of concerns after lawmakers OK higher speed limit
Illinois drivers soon could roll along rural interstates at 70 mph after House lawmakers Wednesday approved a higher speed limit on nonurban highways despite safety concerns and a possible veto showdown with the governor. Supporters said the higher...
Tags: Justice System, Motorvehicle Accidents, Hampshire, Highway Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Illinois considers extending tax break to small businesses
Legislators are considering a bill that would expand the scope of the state's main economic development program to small businesses. House Bill 1336 calls for eliminating a requirement that companies make a capital investment in the state of at least $1...
Tags: Jack D Franks, Investments, Pat Quinn, Taxation, Business Enterprises
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Illinois government: Governor, legislative leaders increase private meetings
Tribune reporterSPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn and the top legislative leaders strode down a stairwell and into a Capitol hearing room for a private meeting with the House and Senate lawmakers—all fellow Democrats—who together control state government....Tags: Values, Justice System, Regional Authority, Pat Quinn, Rod Blagojevich
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Digging a pension hole
Illinois' pension system was in precarious enough shape in 1994 that Democrats and Republicans came together to solve a crisis threatening the state's financial future.
The agreement they forged was supposed to take politics out of pension funding by...Tags: Pat Quinn, WGN, Civil and Public Service, Springfield, Rod Blagojevich
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And now for our applause
For more than six years, we've called for reform of Illinois' public pension system. Some days we begged legislators, some days we harangued them. Today we're pleased to list the names of House lawmakers who took responsible action Thursday and voted...Tags: Christine Radogno, David Harris, JoAnn D. Osmond, Pat Quinn, Tom Cross
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CPS head targets K-8 'dropout pipeline'
Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett vowed Monday to move forcefully to address the city's crisis in K-8 truancy and absenteeism, declaring: "We must work to shut down the dropout pipeline." She said that "while the district has not fully...Tags: Linda Chapa LaVia, Union League Club, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Tribune, John J Cullerton
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CTA boss wavers on Ventra at hearing
Tribune reporterCTA President Forrest Claypool on Monday appeared to alternate between playing the roles of an impartial party as well as a pitchman for the new Ventra transit card's controversial prepaid debit-account program. Claypool told state officials at a public...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Consumers, CTA Ventra Card, Chicago Transit Authority, First Data Corporation
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Obama knows his way around a ballot
Tribune staff reportersThe day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Sex Crimes, Justice and Rights, Hyde Park, U.S. Senate
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Move to lower mandatory school age faces 'uphill climb'
To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to lower Illinois' compulsory attendance age from 7 to 6 or...
Tags: Linda Chapa LaVia, Maywood (Cook, Illinois), Research, Chicago Teachers Union, David Luechtefeld
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'We're fighting shadows'
Tribune reportersSPRINGFIELD — Heading toward a decision on the ultimate political sanction, members of a House impeachment committee Monday rejected complaints by Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attorney that he was battling "shadows" in his fight to keep the disgraced...Tags: Trials, U.S. Senate, Chicago, Rod Blagojevich, Crime, Law and Justice
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