The chairman of the campaign to replace Illinois’ flat income tax with graduated rates said California’s high top rate on millionaires hasn’t driven people from that state. It’s more complicated than that.
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Student Protesters Demand Lightfoot Live Up To Campaign Promises on Environmental Protection
Members of several youth groups protested outside the mayor’s City Hall offices to call for Lightfoot to reinstate a city department of environment to fight pollution and address climate change.
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Fact-Check: Lipinski Revives GOP Talking Point on ACA Medicare Change
U.S. Rep. Daniel Lipinski recently explained his vote against the Affordable Care Act by claiming it took money from Medicare. The landmark health care law reduced future growth in program spending, but it did not take away existing dollars.
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‘It’s A Fixed Cost. That’s All I Ask’: A Politician’s Pitch For Campaign Cash
While seeking a tax break from Cook County, a suburban factory owner says he felt pressured into contributing to a county commissioner’s campaign fund.
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Chicago Aldermen Call for Hearings Into Failing City Recycling Programs
Citing an investigation by the BGA that revealed systemic failures in Chicago’s Blue Cart recycling program, aldermen demand public examination aimed at improving the city’s worst-in-the-nation programs.
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Fact-Check: Have Carbon Emissions Increased Under Trump?
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky is correct the nation has seen an increase in emissions in the time since Trump took office. After a significant spike in 2018, however, emissions fell again last year.
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Fact-Check: No, Casten Did Not Call for Trump’s Impeachment Before Mueller Report Release
Congressional candidate Jeanne Ives claimed U.S. Rep. Sean Casten came out in support of impeaching President Trump before the Mueller report was even released. That’s not the case.
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Fact-Check: Pritzker Says Illinois’ Unemployment Rate Dropped More Than Other Big States
During his State of the State address, Gov. J.B. Pritzker claimed Illinois reduced its unemployment rate more than any of the nation’s other big states and its Midwestern neighbors. That checks out, but needs some additional information.
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Fact-Check: Brady Misleads on Graduated Tax Comparison
Citing Oregon as an example of what Illinois’ future will hold if voters approve Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s graduated income tax plan, Illinois Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady made a claim about that state’s tax history that doesn’t hold up.
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Cómo el principal asistente del Concejal Solís consiguió tres trabajos
Mientras el concejal del Distrito 25, Daniel Solís, cooperaba en una investigación de corrupción federal antes de dejar su cargo el año pasado, un miembro de su personal estaba haciendo una nueva carrera como portero en un club nocturno, guardia de seguridad y como lobbista en una empresa de servicios públicos de Illinois.