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Good News: Pat Quinn Signs Illinois Budget; Bad News: Pat Quinn Signs Illinois Budget

David Ormsby | Posted 08.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Budget, Donne Trotter, Christine Radogno, John Cullerton, Pat Quinn, Tom Cross, Michael Madigan, Illinois Budget Deficit, Chicago News
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The unbalanced budget "avoids a tax increase," Minority Leader Radogno said. It also avoids any sign of real leadership--an observation Radogno left unsaid.

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Black Lawmakers: Burris Pick Won't Help Blagojevich

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Donne Trotter, Blagojevich Corruption, Burris Seating, Blagojevich Senate Appointment, Blagojevich Defense, Rod Blagojevich, Kwame Raoul, Roland Burris, Blagojevich Scandal, Burris Certification, Senator Burris, Blagojevich Impeachment, Chicago News

CHICAGO — Roland Burris is battling for a U.S. Senate seat in court and through the media, briefly shifting the spotlight away from the man who ...

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Budget Crunch Jeopardizing Pioneering AIDS Fund

Chicago Reporter | Kelly Virella and Jeff Kelly Lowenstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Donne Trotter, African-American HIV/AIDS Response Fund, Illinois Budget, Illinois AIDS Fund, Health, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Illinois Budget Crunch, Chicago News

HIV and AIDS activists around the state are informally discussing whether to launch a last ditch effort to reinstate millions in the current year's b...

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Senate Democrats Consider Tax Increase

STLtoday.com | Kurt Erickson | Posted 12.15.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Budget, Illinois Senate, Donne Trotter, Dan Hynes, Rod Blagojevich, James Clayborne, Illinois State Senate, Illinois Tax Increase, Illinois Taxes, Illinois Budget Problems, Illinois Senate Democrats, Chicago News

Democrats who control the Illinois Senate hinted Thursday that some kind of tax increase may be on the horizon. With the state's backlog of unpaid bi...

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