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As corruption trials continue, Illinois lobbyist reform effort pushed in General Assembly
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIllinois laws regulating lobbyists and their influence on state government have long been criticized...
Illinois Wins End to 50-Year Oversight of State Employment
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 2 years ago(Bloomberg) -- A federal appeals court in Chicago ended five decades of oversight of Illinois...
Southern Illinois home of Paul Powell, the 'Shoebox Scandal' politician, could soon be sold
Associated Press via AOL· 3 months agoPaul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in...
Judges, ex-legislators and the Cook County clerk wrote letters of support for convicted Springfield...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA sitting state appellate judge, a former Illinois Supreme Court justice, multiple ex-legislators...
Tim Mapes, former aide to Speaker Michael Madigan, sentenced to 2 1/2 years for lying to federal...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 3 months agoDuring Tim Mapes’ perjury trial last year, an FBI agent memorably testified Mapes’ boss, longtime...
Ken Griffin’s money expected to again play role in Illinois Supreme Court elections, starting with...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe state’s wealthiest man, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, is again exerting influence in a race for an...
‘Let me put you on with the boss, OK?’: Feds detail wiretaps involving former Michael Madigan chief...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFederal prosecutors for the first time have detailed wiretapped conversations capturing Tim Mapes,...
Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough dies at 73
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoCook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough, a fixture in state and local Democratic Party politics who successfully championed legislation to ban the death...
State representative takes witness stand at perjury trial of Madigan ‘gatekeeper’ Tim Mapes
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoDuring ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s long reign, his chief of staff Tim Mapes placed...
Your SC politics briefing
The State via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWelcome to your weekly South Carolina politics briefing, a newsletter curated by The State’s politics and government team. Richard Eckstrom is out. The...
