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Sic transit annus horribilis
It was a very dark year, but not without glimmers of hope for the future
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Ted Cox2020 Year in Review, Annus Horribilis, Lorado Taft, Graceland Cemetery, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Trump Impeachment, Kamala Harris, Lauren Underwood, Jim Oberweis, Sean Casten, Jeanne Ives, Dick Durbin, Illinois Teacher Shortage, IDES, Illinois Insulin, Women's March Chicago, Rod Blagojevich, Michael Madigan, ComEd Bribery, Fair Tax Amendment, Thomas Kilbride, Michael Frerichs, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Anna IL, Illinois Legalization, Illinois Legal Marijuana, Illinois Recreational Marijuana, Illinois Adult-Use Cannabis Revenue, Illinois Adult-Use Cannabis, Angela Jackson, John Prine, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amy Coney Barrett, Bruno the Bear, U.S. Census, COVID-19, Coronavirus, COVID-19 Vaccine
Will Census alter top 10 towns?
Population has been fairly steady in largest cities, although Cicero would seem to be out
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Pritzker calls on Trump to reopen Obamacare
Governor charges president with ‘leadership malpractice,’ as 42 new COVID-19 deaths push state toll past 100
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Ted CoxCoronavirus, Coronavirus Testing, Illinois Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 Testing, J.B. Pritzker, Donald Trump, Ngozi Ezike, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Stateville Correctional Center, Lori Lightfoot, M.K. Pritzker, Amy Eshleman, Amanda Williams, 2020 U.S. Census, Census Citizenship Question, U.S. Census
State population drop persists
National population levels at 328 million as immigration falls to lowest figure in a decade under Trump
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Ted CoxIllinois Population, Illinois Population Loss, U.S. Population, Bruce Rauner, Marc Schulman, Sandra Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Census, 2020 U.S. Census, Trump Immigration, J.B. Pritzker
AG Raoul defends state from Trump
Attorney general confronts feds on immigration, reproductive health, Obamacare, census, environment, EtO
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Kwame Raoul, Obamacare, ACA, Affordable Care Act, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, Ethylene Oxide, Sterigenics, U.S. Census, 2020 U.S. Census, Vaping, Teen Vaping, Illinois Opioid Epidemic, Opioid Crisis, Gun Control, Gun Laws, Gun Violence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cicero among 50 most miserable U.S. cities
Only Illinois town to make Business Insider list, based on census data
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Ted CoxBusiness Insider, Most Miserable U.S. Cities, U.S. Census, Al Capone, Betty Loren-Maltese, Mark Brown, Adlai Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway, Julius Caesar, Cicero
Illinois enjoys 'brain gain'
Contrary to ‘brain drain’ reports, throughout the 2000s the state has actually attracted top talent
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Duckworth, Garcia, Schakowsky call for accurate census count
Trump’s citizenship question threatens to trim Illinois congressional representatives
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