When it comes to budgeting, Gov. Rauner has been clearly guilty of some of the same sins he is now complaining about. But he’s right that the state budget is way in the red.
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State Budget Whodunit Raises Doubt About Quick Savings From Pension Overhaul
Administrators at state pension systems are scratching their heads over how exactly an estimate for $500 million in pension savings came to be.
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Fact-Check: Does The State’s New Education Law Create A ‘Voucher Program’?
The Chicago Teachers Union consistently describes a scholarship plan included in a new Illinois education bill as a voucher program and a tax shelter that will benefit the wealthy. But is that description accurate?
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Autistic Teen’s Death In CPS Pool Heightens Questions Of Special Ed Care
Fourteen-year-old Rosario Gomez didn’t know how to swim, wasn’t wearing a lifejacket and had significant problems communicating. His drowning in a high school pool last winter fuels doubts about Chicago Public Schools’ ability to care for its special needs students.
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Settlement Approved In Police Shooting Involving Gun That Judge Turned In 8 Years Earlier
The family of a 22-year-old who was fatally shot by a Cicero police officer will receive $3.1 million from the suburb. Next to the victim’s dead body was the .38 caliber revolver that a Cook County judge turned in to a Chicago gun buyback years earlier.
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Fact-Check: Rauner’s ‘Proud Immigrant’ Grandparents? Born In Wisconsin
Throughout his political career, Gov. Bruce Rauner has told the tale of his proud Swedish immigrant grandparents, the Ericksons from Sweden. Except they were born and bred in Wisconsin.
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Fact-Check: Will New Illinois Law Create ‘Sanctuaries’ For Undocumented Immigrants?
Opponents of a new law defining police officers’ roles in immigration matters miss the mark — Illinois has not become a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
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Rauner Halts Proposed Cuts To Senior In-Home Care
Gov. Rauner’s administration has halted plans to scale back an in-home senior care program. The proposed reduction had faced criticism from the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter, Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans and SEIU Healthcare Illinois.
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Fact-Check: Does Chicago Protect ‘Criminal Aliens’?
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently accused the Chicago Police Department of maintaining “an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents.”
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Fact-Check: U.S. Senate Candidate Says Illinois Communities Are Under Sharia Law
Are there really entire communities in Illinois that ignore U.S. law and operate instead under Sharia law?