The pension fight at street level.
The leadership of the We Are One coalition of Illinois public employee unions is holding their pension summit with legislative leaders today. It is scheduled for 1PM in Burr Ridge.
The Governor says he will drop by.
State Democratic Party Chairman who happens to be House Speaker Michael Madigan told We Are One to drop dead.
Meeting with the legislative leaders is the right thing for the unions to do. The legislative leaders are the ones
The Governor says he will drop by.
State Democratic Party Chairman who happens to be House Speaker Michael Madigan told We Are One to drop dead.
Meeting with the legislative leaders is the right thing for the unions to do. The legislative leaders are the ones
Stop closing Chicago public schools.
My kids are all grown up now. I have grand kids who go to public school in Brooklyn.
On these chilly Chicago mornings I walk Ulysses at about 7:30. Just as kids are walking to Darwin Elementary School.
Our neighborhood school. My neighborhood school for 40 years.
Some of the older kids walk by themselves. The younger ones walk with a parent.
Last week a dad was trying to walk the dog and his young son who obviously decided he wanted to ride his bike
John Dillon. Repesentative Sosnowski’s constitutional amendment. Say it ain’t so, Joe.
In the Shakespearian tragicomedy Merchant of Venice, a seminal moment arrives when the evil moneylender Shylock demands his pound of flesh to be cut off nearest the heart of loan-victim Antonio. Defenders of the threatened plaintiff beseech the judge to reconsider the ridiculousness of the original contract, one ultimately ending in the death of another. The judge, a brilliant and disguised heroine, warns that it cannot be done: breaking contracts would set a precedent in the state which would result in the destruction of all confidence in Venice and with its business partners beyond the sea.
