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Sen. Burris' son's state job: Sun-Times
The Swampby Mark Silva The plot thickens for Sen. Roland Burris, appointed to the Senate from Illinois by the former, impeached Gov. Rod Blagojevich, for whom Burris tried to raise campaign funds. Burris' son landed a $75,000-a-year state job under Blagojevich.......Tags: Dick Durbin, Interior Policy, Executive Branch, Chicago Sun-Times, Regional Authority
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Mortgage-relief fraud crackdown: Feds
The Swampby Michael Oneal The Obama administration warned today that scams targeting distressed homeowners struggling to modify their mortgages or avoid foreclosure are on the rise across the United States. In a news conference led by Treasury Secretary Timothy...Tags: Fraud, Economy, Business and Finance, Mortgages, Kansas, United States
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Kennedy for Senate? (Illinois this time)
The Swampby Mark Silva and Dan P. Blake, updated at 5:15: pm EDT Could there be another Kennedy in the Senate? It's a big name, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley notes. A spokeswoman for Chris Kennedy, president of the Merchandise Mart in......Tags: National Government, Edward M. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, New York, Richard M. Daley
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In Chicago, Biden predicts Giannoulias win
The Swampby Mike Memoli Vice President Biden acknowledged today the symbolism that would come with Republican victories in the Senate races in Delaware and Illinois this fall, potentially taking the seats once held by President Obama and himself. But at least........Tags: Iraq, Health, White House, Alexi Giannoulias, Medical Services
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Madigan cool to consumer board post
The Swampby Katherine Skiba Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan on Tuesday said, in so many words, thanks but no thanks to the soon-to-be-created position of director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Madigan, a two-term AG who is on the......Tags: Consumers, Michael Madigan, U.S. Senate, Illinois, Chicago Tribune
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Deadline could backfire on gun-control advocates
Talk about the Wild West. Imagine officials of more than 200 local home-rule units of government in Illinois — trustees, aldermen, councilors, commissioners, most of them part-timers — suddenly and urgently attempting to craft and pass a new...
Tags: Local Government, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Interior Policy
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The Madiganistan succession, or Illinois' own Game of Thrones
When you mix royal Illinois political houses, ambition, jealousy and power, what do you get? A whiff of blood in the air over Madiganistan. Madiganistan, the state known to outsiders as Illinois, is ruled by the ruthless and all-powerful imp, House...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Weight, White House, Interior Policy, Executive Branch
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What to get for the political dad who has everything
What do political dads really want on Father's Day? I'm not a political dad. So all I'd like is a pair of leopard-print spandex bike shorts and a Big Wheel Sidewalk Screamer, that I may go on bike rides with the mayor of Chicago. But what do political...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, 2012 Democratic National Convention, John Boehner
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Change in Madiganistan starts at home
Wind-swept Madiganistan, that arid economic wasteland once known as Illinois, is in absolute ruins. Young people flee the state in search of a future, and their future isn't here. Businesses leave, taking jobs with them. Taxes keep going up to feed...
Tags: Christine Radogno, Crime, Law and Justice, Realty, Potatoes, Elaine Nekritz
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Judge did right thing by banning cellphones in courtrooms
Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans kept hearing complaints from his judges about street gangs in their courtrooms using cellphones to photograph witnesses. "They're bold and they're brash," Evans told me the other day. "They think they can do it in...
Tags: Timothy Evans, Toni Preckwinkle, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Witnesses
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The next election already: Bill Daley serious about running for governor
Illinois Gov. William Daley. Get used to it. Because he wants it. And he's reaching for it. "I've thought about it before and I don't take it off the table," Daley told me in an interview on WLS-AM 890 on Wednesday as he sat for an hour talking...
Tags: Kirk W Dillard, Weight, Aaron Schock, Richard M. Daley, White House
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Kass: Republican Bruce Rauner takes no position on gay marriage
Bruce Rauner, the multimillionaire Republican businessman who wants to become governor of Illinois, sat down with me for an interview Thursday and dodged questions about same-sex marriage. It took about four tries to pin him down on where he stands, and...
Tags: Weight, White House, Edward G. Rendell, Executive Branch, Chicago Sun-Times
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