Una nueva investigación muestra que las amenazas tóxicas son mayores en los pequeños vecindarios cercanos a las áreas industriales. El estudio, según los activistas, puede contribuir en la lucha por la reubicación de la industria sucia en sus comunidades.
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Fact-Check: Sessions Wrong Again on Chicago Murder Spike Cause
The attorney general again blames a 2016 surge in gun-related murders on an agreement between the city and the ACLU to rein in police stops. But other big cities have imposed similar limits without murder spikes.
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Rauner, Pritzker Tax Disclosures Rich in Avoidance
Illinois’ wealthiest candidates for governor have disclosed little when it comes to their personal finances. But what they have revealed indicates they leverage tax code flexibility out of reach for most.
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“Boys, Boys!”: Repetition Doesn’t Improve Rauner, Pritzker Sniping
The leading candidates for Illinois’ top office squared off in four debates in recent weeks, repeating misleading attacks and defenses on policy issues and personal scandals.
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Fact-Check: Rauner Ad Rewrites Property Tax History
The governor’s recent campaign ad ignores the fact that property tax levies are set at the local level in Illinois, meaning not even the powerful House speaker gets to pull the strings.
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Fact-Check: Emanuel Exaggerates What Studies Say About CPS
Chicago’s mayor says Stanford University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago all declared Chicago Public Schools “the best” among its peers. The reports he cites highlight the district’s growing strengths but don’t go that far.
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State Panel Rejects Rauner Plan to Ease Coal Plant Pollution Rules
The Illinois Pollution Control Board proposed an alternative to governor’s call for easing emission rules on Downstate coal power plants. The new plan loosens controls, but not as much as Rauner sought.
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Decision Nears On Rauner Plan For Easing Coal Plant Pollution Limits
The Rauner administration seeks to extend a lifeline to a $13 billion energy company, a plan that would lead to more pollution-related deaths and illnesses, opponents warn.
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Fact-Check: Pritzker’s Flimsy Claim That Rauner Delayed School Funding
Pritzker’s ad suggests Illinois’ protracted budget stalemate held up state aid for K-12 schools and left local property tax payers to pick up the tab, all thanks to Gov. Rauner. But that argument doesn’t quite add up.
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Emanuel Decries Police Code of Silence. But City-Paid Expert Says It Doesn’t Exist.
An expert witness hired by the Emanuel administration has disputed in several lawsuits the existence of a code of silence among Chicago police to thwart misconduct allegations. The mayor claimed the opposite in the wake of the Laquan McDonald shooting.