Via The Chicago Tribune If money talks, it will have a lot to say in the new 2nd Ward come Election Day. More than $1 million has poured into the campaign coffers of the six candidates who want to represent…
Read MoreVia Aljazeera When Chicago voters head to the polls on Tuesday, they will not only decide the fate of their mayor, they will have a chance to vote on a referendum that has a chance to even the field for…
Read MoreVia Sauk Valley The turmoil has partially subsided over a Chicago Little League team whose national title was taken away by Little League International. One aspect of the story still resonates with reform-minded Illinoisans. The adults who operated the Jackie…
Read MoreVia the Chicago Tribune Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Wednesday dubbed his first spending plan a “turnaround budget” for a financially shaky state, but Democrats rebuffed his proposed cuts to health care for the poor, government worker pensions, state universities,…
Read MoreVia Moyers & Company In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said, “a better politics is one where we spend less time drowning in dark money for ads that pull us into the gutter.” In January, The…
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Read MoreVia Crain’s Registered Chicago voters will cast ballots for mayor a week from today, on Feb. 24, and they’ll have only one vote each. But the vast bulk of the money fueling the mayoral candidates is coming from a relative…
Read MoreVia CBS Chicago CHICAGO (CBS) – A consumer watchdog group was warning that voices of small donors have been swamped under a tide of big money washing over the mayor’s race in Chicago. Illinois Public Interest Research Group director Abe…
Read MoreVia Illinois PIRG In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decisions undermining campaign finance rules, most notably Citizens United v FEC, our elections have become increasingly dominated by large donors at the expense of ordinary Americans. These effects have been…
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