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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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U.S. Rep. Marie Newman (IL-03) is being sued by Chicago college professor Iymen Chehade, who alleges that she violated a contract to offer him a job in exchange for dropping out of the March 2020 congressional primary. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)
OAK LAWN, IL A college professor is suing U.S. Rep. Marie Newman, claiming that she violated a contract to give him a job on her staff if he dropped out of the 2020 Democratic primary in the 3rd Congressional District.
In March 2018, the complaint asserts, plaintiff Iymen Chehade, an adjunct history professor at Columbia College, began mulling a run in the 2020 congressional Democratic primary. Newman also planned a second run for Congress in the 3rd District, having lost the primary district by a narrow margin to incumbent Dan Lipinski. Conscious of the district s large Palestinian-American community, Newman reached out to Chehade in 2018, offering him a job on her staff sh
WTTW News
If you think the City Council has been unusually obstreperous during Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s first two years, you’re right.
According to a new report by longtime council watcher Dick Simpson and colleagues, the council is no longer the almost totally tamed body it was when Simpson served as 44th Ward alderman during the tenures of Richard J. Daley and Michael Bilandic.
You can read the full report below.
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Simpson a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who served on Lightfoot’s transition team generally applauds that development. But it certainly has given Lightfoot a few gray hairs.
Ohio speaker s public corruption case tops the nation usatoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from usatoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Ohio s public corruption case involving $61 million in bribes in exchange for a $1.3 billion bailout is the biggest open investigation in any Statehouse in America surpassing a similar scandal in Illinois and two closed-out cases in New York. Historically, I haven t seen anything like it, said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Matthew DeBlauw, who leads the public corruption squad in Columbus. This case is in a league of its own.
So far, five Ohioans have been charged in U.S. District Court with racketeering. Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. fired its chief executive and other top managers and lobbyists, disclosed it paid $4.3 million to someone who became an Ohio utility regulator, and is in early talks with federal prosecutors to avoid prosecution. And FBI agents searched the home of then Public Utilities Commission of Ohio chairman Sam Randazzo, who then resigned.