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Happy Thursday, Illinois. In a roller-coaster world of news, today s vaccination report from the governor will be coming from Six Flags.
TOP TALKER Rep. LIz Cheney from leadership
happened moments after Republicans said “amen” in a morning prayer. The action was so quick that numerous members, including Illinois Republican Reps.
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Dick Kay, a no-nonsense, incisive inquisitor who had one of the longest political reporting careers in Chicago, died early Thursday at 84, according to his son Steven Snodgrass.
Mr. Kay had a stentorian voice that sliced through the noise at crime scenes and news conferences like a bass baritone in an opera. It seemed to command answers from politicians and public relations people who might have preferred to slink away from a mic.
Mr. Kay, who lived in St. Charles and had taken ill earlier this week, worked 38 years for WMAQ-Channel 5, covering countless political conventions, indictments, court trials, aldermen, mayors, governors, senators and presidents. He was hired there as a writer in 1968. Within months, he was covering one of the most tumultuous political stories of the century.
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It was like a lot of other drug busts. The police served a warrant, found narcotics, made arrests. But, in a back room, they discovered something else.
“We found a little dog that was all burned up, burned on its back and sides,” former Lt. Russell Schaefer said. “This dog had been set on fire.”
It struggled to limp toward them.
“It was, like, ‘Thank God, you’re here,’” Schaefer said.
Another officer called over Nancy Lipman, a cop who’d rescued dozens of animals over the years. She cradled the puppy, then took it to a veterinarian.
After nursing her back to health, Ms. Lipman found a home for the dog, who was renamed Heidi.
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Good Monday morning, Illinois. Oscar stunner: Chadwick Boseman didn t win best actor, but Anthony Hopkins, who did, offered a tribute.
TOP TALKER
With a little more than five weeks before state lawmakers wrap up their spring legislative session, there’s still a lot of heavy lifting to be done on the state budget, redistricting, ethics reform, and an energy package.
They’re all issues important to Democrats and Republicans alike, but in a General Assembly controlled by a Democratic supermajority, GOP lawmakers are bracing for a fight to be heard.