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    Jun 21, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  1. Tribune analysis: Average raise in 2009-10 for CEOs of 18 nonprofits double that for private-industry workers

    During the height of the recession, employees at one of the area's biggest nonprofits were not supposed to get pay raises greater than 6 percent — but that didn't apply to the CEO.
    During the height of the recession, employees at one of the area's biggest nonprofits were not supposed to get pay raises greater than 6 percent — but that didn't apply to the CEO. The board for the Community and Economic Development Association of...

    Tags: Chicago Tribune, Cook County Government, Executive Branch, Government, Andrew Cuomo

  2. Aug 21, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  3. Sales tax loophole leaves some cities, towns crying foul as firms exploit Illinois law

    Dozens of companies doing business in the Chicago area are routing their sales through small outlying  municipalities with low sales tax rates, siphoning tens of millions of dollars from city and suburban taxing districts.
    Tribune reporters
    Dozens of companies doing business in the Chicago area are routing their sales through small outlying municipalities with low sales tax rates, siphoning tens of millions of dollars from city and suburban taxing districts. These companies, ranging from...

    Tags: Taj Mahal, Electronics, Cook County Government, Chicago Mayor, Barbara Flynn Currie

  4. Mar 5, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  5. High cost of 1-school districts

    Just 11 students make up the entire 7th grade in Lake County's Rondout School District 72, where the lone school has but 161 students.
    Just 11 students make up the entire 7th grade in Lake County's Rondout School District 72, where the lone school has but 161 students. The cost to taxpayers: $23,449 per child, the highest of all elementary districts in Illinois, the most recent data...

    Tags: Cook County Government, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Cook County, Lake County (Michigan), Regional Authority

  6. Jun 22, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  7. Illinois lawmakers vote to cut own pay

    Clout Street
    SPRINGFIELD — State lawmakers today voted to give themselves 12 unpaid days off during the next year and rejected 1.1 percent cost-of-living increases. The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge, effectively would leave lawmakers'...

    Tags: Justice System, Park Ridge, Wages and Pensions, Illinois, Dan Kotowski

  8. Jun 22, 2011 |Story| Associated Press
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  10. May 31, 2011 | Chicago Tribune
  11. New congressional map on way to Quinn's desk

    Clout St
    Posted by Rick Pearson at 2:22 p.m.; updated at 2:23 p.m. SPRINGFIELD --- Democrats in the Senate sent Gov. Pat Quinn a new map of the state’s congressional boundaries for the next decade, a plan which carves up suburban districts......
  12. May 12, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. PASSINGS: Norma Zimmer, Dick Walsh, Robert F. Ellsworth, Robert Traylor, Burt Reinhardt

    <b>Norma Zimmer</b>
    Norma Zimmer Singer was Welk 'Champagne Lady' Norma Zimmer, 87, the "Champagne Lady" of television's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer, died Tuesday at her home in Brea. Her son, Larry, did not give the cause of death. Zimmer performed on...

    Tags: Fox Broadcasting Company, Television Industry, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

  14. May 22, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen News
  15. Noem's flood aid hypocrisy

    In March, Rep. Kristi Noem voted in lock-step with Republican leaders in Washington to completely eliminate the watershed and Flood Prevention and Operations program and to slash $800 million in FEMA funding to state and local governments. Last week,...

    Tags: Floods, Local Government, Kristi Noem, FEMA, Barack Obama

  16. May 19, 2011 | Chicago Tribune
  17. Democrats release legislative redistricting maps

    Clout St
    UPDATED at 2:24 p.m. with Cullerton, Radogno reaction; originally posted by Rick Pearson at 10:08 a.m. The Democrats who control the state Senate released their proposed map of new legislative boundaries today -- a redistricting plan that is likely to.......
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