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Gun violence is a public-health issue
Congressional subcommittee meets on Chicago’s South Side, hears calls to research root causes of gun crimes
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Ted CoxGun Control, Chicago Gun Violence, Gun Violence, Bobby Rush, Kenndy-King College, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Anna Eshoo, Selwyn Rogers Jr., Danny Davis, NRA, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Niva Lubin-Johnson, Robin Kelly, Ronald Stewart, Jan Schakowsky, G.K. Butterfield, Spencer Leak Sr., Norman Kerr, Brenda Mitchell, Yvette Clarke, Gabby Giffords, Steve Scalise, Donald Trump, Adam Kinzinger
The Gini is out of the bottle
It’s time to take advanced metrics and apply them to economic issues that actually matter to working families
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Ted CoxEconomic Statistics, Gini Index, Advanced Metrics, Sabermetrics, Bill James, Corrado Gini, Unemployment Rate, Stock Index, NYSE, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Donald Trump, U.S. Census Bureau, Lauren Underwood, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Danny Davis, U.S. Gini Index, Illinois Gini Index, Allen Sanderson
The Black Sox: Baseball's enduring enigma
Chicago History Museum symposium of baseball aficionados debunks some ‘myths,’ but many unanswered questions remain
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Ted CoxShoeless Joe Jackson, Black Sox, Chicago White Sox, Eddie Cicotte, Morrie Rath, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Wolfscheim, David Nathan, Society for American Baseball Research, Jacob Pomrenke, Bill Savage, Bruce Allardice, Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Eddie Collins, Buck Weaver, Ray Schalk, Ty Cobb, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Ring Lardner, You Know Me Al, Eliot Asinof, John Sayles, David Pietrusza, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Bill Lamb, Nelson Algren, James T. Farrell, Al Capone, Gene Carney, Pete Rose, Charley Owens, Say It Ain't So Joe
Sterigenics to close up shop!
Sterilization firm announces plans to ‘exit Willowbrook,’ Stop Sterigenics exults
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Bustos boosts poll backing impeachment
GOP Congressman Kinzinger blasts Trump tweet as ‘beyond repugnant’
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Income inequality worsens across U.S.
But Illinois beats national averages for income, poverty, health care, with some surprising local findings
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Pritzker appoints LaHood to head Lincoln Library
Former Republican congressman chosen to smooth over turmoil
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Ray LaHood, Bruce Rauner, Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library, Darin LaHood, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Alan Lowe, George W. Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Joan Brodsky, Gary Johnson, Eunice Santos, Kathryn Harris, John Symon, Blair Kamin, Steve Neal
Cook County, immigrant group sue Trump
‘Public charge’ rule would increase costs of health care, say Preckwinkle, Foxx
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Toni Preckwinkle, Kim Foxx, Tammy Duckworth, Dick Durbin, ICIRR, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Obamacare, Carrie Chapman, Legal Council for Health Justice, Kate Walz
Raoul joins 23 AGs in defending food stamps
Trump rule taking effect Oct. 15 will hurt students and seniors worst, says Illinois attorney general
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Taiwan commits to $2.2B ag buy
Pritzker praises deal to export Illinois corn, soybeans in midst of Trump trade war
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, J.B. Pritzker, Illinois Soybean Association, Illinois Soybean Growers, Illinois Corn Growers, Illinois Corn Marketing Board, Taiwan Feed Industry Association, Taiwan Vegetable Oil Manufacturers Association, John Sullivan, Illinois Department of Agriculture, Trump Trade War, Trump Farm Bailout
Impeachment!
Sen. Durbin calls for Trump probe, House Speaker Pelosi launches ‘official impeachment inquiry’
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Dick Durbin, Trump Impeachment, Trump Whistleblower, Trump Ukraine, Joe Biden, Volodymyr Zelensky, Michael Atkinson, Nancy Pelosi, Dan Lipinski, Cheri Bustos, Justin Amash
AG Raoul joins suit backing Calif. on car emissions
Bad precedent could affect Clean Energy Jobs Act
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Ted CoxKwame Raoul, J.B. Pritzker, Clean Energy Jobs Act, Xavier Becerra, California Advanced Clean Car Standards, Donald Trump, Howard Learner, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Jennifer Walling, Illinois Environmental Council, Jack Darin, Sierra Club, Sierra Club Illinois Chapter, Colleen Connell, ACLU of Illinois, Citizens Utility Board
Trump 'declaring war on our neighborhoods'
Congressman Garcia raps ICE plans for $1M military training site with ‘hyper-realistic’ replica of Chicago
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, ICE, U.S. Immigration, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, Trump Immigration, Jan Schakowsky, Ben Bergquam, Frontline America, Emma Lozano, Centro Sin Fronteras, Familia Latina Unida, Glenn Beck
Stop Sterigenics rips IEPA EtO permit
Grassroots group turns focus to General Assembly’s fall veto session to ban ethylene oxide
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Ted CoxSterigenics, Stop Sterigenics, J.B. Pritzker, Bruce Rauner, IEPA, Lauren Kaesberg, John Kim, Kwame Raoul, Gary Grasso, Jim Durkin, Rita Mayfield, Frank Trilla, Medline Industries, Vantage Specialty Chemicals, Andrea Thome
Thousands of striking students march over climate change
Illinois Youth Climate Strike pushes for Clean Energy Jobs Act
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Ted CoxJ.B. Pritzker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Illinois Youth Climate Strike, Clean Energy Jobs Act, Green New Deal, Ida B. Wells, Isabella Johnson, Global Climate Strike, Greta Thunberg, Ann Williams, Serena Worley, Avery Martin, Patricia Agnes, Angela Diaz, Emily Graslie, Field Museum
State Fair rakes in record $6.5M
Record season for grandstand acts also helps draw 500K, largest attendance in five years
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Students seek to expand support for strike on climate change
Friday march in Chicago calls for state to pass Clean Energy Jobs Act
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Ted CoxGreta Thunberg, Chicago Youth Climate Strike, Illinois Youth Climate Strike, Global Youth Climate Strike, Jessica Sun Li, Donald Trump, USMCA, Cristina Castro, Ann Williams, Bruce Rauner, Citizens Utility Board, Amazon, Chicago Public Schools
Lobbying farmers searching for a 'win'
Leaders to Washington group gets little good news in D.C. on trade, ethanol waivers
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Adam Kinzinger, Leaders to Washington, Illinois Farm Bureau, Trump Trade War, Illinois Ethanol, Ethanol Waivers, Tammy Duckworth, Nancy Pelosi, Illinois Soybeans, Illinois Corn, Dan Basse, Julie Newhouse, Sonny Perdue, Robert Benson, Matthew Herberling
Manar, Guzzardi urge cap on cost of insulin
AARP Illinois joins health groups in cheering bill to limit out-of-pocket expense to $100 a month
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Ted CoxAndy Manar, Will Guzzardi, Megan Blair, Insulin, Diabetes, AARP, U.S. Drug Prices, American Diabetes Association, Dave Koehler, Jehan Gordon-Booth, Illinois State Medical Society, Illinois Pharmacists Association, AARP Illinois
Reproductive rights are everyone's rights
ACLU Illinois head Colleen Connell calls abortion rights ‘the proverbial canary in the constitutional coal mine’
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Ted CoxDonald Trump, Colleen Connell, ACLU of Illinois, ACLU, City Club of Chicago, White Supremacists, White Nationalism, Constitutional Originalists, F. Roger Devlin, Abortion Rights, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health Act