Category | Elections

PAC challenges IL campaign contribution limits

February 14, 2012

By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Campaign contribution limits in Illinois are being tested in federal court only a year after being enacted.

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Director: College Illinois! to stay afloat, even if that means taxpayer bailout

February 07, 2012

By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ prepaid college tuition fund on which some 54,000 families are relying is vowing to find some way to make up a $559.9-million deficit.  

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Presidential delegate filing highlights Illinois role in 2012

January 06, 2012

By Benjamin Yount, Stephanie Fryer and Anthony Brino | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — While the Republican presidential candidates are in New Hampshire this weekend, their surrogates are trying their best to bring the one-upmanship of the race to Illinois. Friday was the last day for the 2012 GOP presidential campaigns to file their delegates with [...]

March primaries: Crystal ball for GOP or test of IL candidates

December 07, 2011

By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — To hear Adam Andrzejewski tell it, the Republican primary this spring is not a contest between candidates, but a contest for the heart of the Illinois Republican Party.

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Wage increases slow, but not campaign contributions

November 07, 2011

By Andrew Thomason  Illinois | Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Pay increases for public employees in Illinois could become a trickle under a plan forming in the General Assembly.

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Harsh words for Illinois’ new signature law

September 07, 2011

By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Statehouse News SPRINGFIELD — Scott Lee Cohen had the signatures to demonstrate he deserved to be on the ballot. In fact, he had 133,000 of them, five times the number required by law.

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