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This week our newly elected governor proclaimed that the rule of law and our constitution are based on “some vague language that we have now.” He has also declared that the entire Illinois Supreme Court is corrupt because the justices accept contributions...

The stop-gap budget that Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and the Democrats who control the legislature agreed to will expire at the start of the new year, and so far, there is nothing, not even talk, to replace it. Elementary and high school funding...

May 30, 2016 by  Bob Adelmann Chicago’s pension contributions to its four dreadfully underfunded pension plans were supposed to double this year to $1.1 billion, up from $478 billion in 2015. But state legislators passed a bill (which had been bottled...

The Illinois House is set to return to Springfield this week. Meanwhile, policymakers are still puzzling through last week’s budget proposal by Gov, Bruce Rauner, partly because his administration made a significant break with tradition in rolling it...

This Sunday’s morning sermon from Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II.  Delivered in 2012. . North America’s largest street festival, as well as the continent’s largest gathering of Black people, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, affectionately referred to...