Senate backs GOP budget in step forward for tax revamp
Republicans on Thursday muscled a $4 trillion budget through the Senate in a major step forward for President Donald Trump’s talk of tax reform.
Rauner’s $1.2B tech hub plan: Boon to city — or to re-election bid?
So how realistic is this innovation center, especially after the governor offered sparse details about it during an official announcement Thursday?
SWEET: Kelly lends moral voice — and more politics — to phone flap
In an extraordinary briefing, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a Gold Star father, loaned his moral authority to President Donald Trump.
SNEED: A cheerful Eddie Johnson says he is ‘back in the saddle’
Top cop Eddie Johnson is enjoying himself and back to eating what he likes now that he has had his successful kidney transplant.
BROWN: No electricity, little water — plenty of despair in Puerto Rico
What makes a hurricane so frightening, and this one in particular, is its awesome scope. There’s damage like this at untold locations.
Rauner, Rahm pitch South Loop game changer, punt on details
Neither Emmanuel nor the governor would say when ground might be broken on the facility or how it would be financed.
Bush condemns Trump-era America: ‘Bigotry seems emboldened’
Former President George W. Bush warned that the rise of “nativism,” isolationism and conspiracy theories have clouded the nation’s true identity.
Will citywide ‘cart inventory’ be prelude to volume-based garbage fee?
The cart inventory is not being conducted with the intention of switching to a volume-based garbage fee, a city spokeswoman said.
City to expand crackdown on illegal parking, boost debt collection
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is counting on raising $10.8 million in 2018 through “data-driven enforcement and improved debt collection.”
Rauner fights to keep lawsuit sealed as he seeks to have it dismissed
During the short status hearing, the judge told attorneys there may be a need for oral arguments.
Trump’s health subsidy shutdown could lead to free insurance
Trump’s attempt to shut off the subsidy for copays and deductibles would cause a different subsidy to jump up, the one for premiums.
In scorching ‘Amarillo,’ an unreachable journey to the North unfolds
“Amarillo” is a scorching commentary that moves far beyond any of the political cant that attaches itself to this subject.
Lausch nomination for Chicago-based U.S. Attorney advances to Senate
John Launch’s nomination to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois advanced on a unanimous vote of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kelly kept tragedy out of politics — but Trump brought it up
Trump’s remarks have many in the military community seething. Kelly is the most senior U.S. military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.
SNEED EXCLUSIVE: Todd Stroger eyes seat on water district board
Sneed is told former Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is planning to run for commissioner of the Water Reclamation District.
