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Good Thursday morning, Illinois. And congratulations to
Lori Lightfoot who celebrates her two-year anniversary as Chicago mayor today with wild headlines.
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Happy Monday, Illinois. We re at the two-week countdown mark for state lawmakers to wrap up the budget and hundreds of other bills. Word of the week: busy.
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Tension is building in Springfield as state lawmakers zero in on how to redraw congressional and state legislative districts. And when we say “lawmakers,” we mean Democrats. Republicans have so far been iced out of the room where it’s all happening though there might be a reveal sometime this week.
CITY HALL HACK ‘SHOCKING’ DEATH OF A STAR-CHITECT ALD. MOORE JOINS SOS RACE
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Good Monday morning, Illinois. Hope you enjoyed your autumn weekend.
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A huge cache of internal emails from City Hall was hacked by a third party and made public Friday, revealing the inner workings of Mayor
Lori Lightfoot’s administration in Chicago.
The select group of emails had been given to the Jones Day law firm as part of an inquiry into how the police raid on Anjanette Young’s home had been handled. The law firm transferred them to a third party as part of that investigation using a data software service when the emails were swiped. “The breach . at no time involved or impacted the city’s computers or computer system,” according to a statement from the city.
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Good Thursday morning , Illinois. We have ignition! The SpaceX Starship rocket
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has pivoted attention from two high-profile departures this week to an interesting hire.
Beniamino Capellupo, who’s spent his career moving up the ranks of the Service Employees International Union, has been named a senior adviser for Labor Partnerships. He takes over a portion of the workload handled by