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by Angela Caputo
4:07pm
Mon Jan 18, 2010
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Gutierrez On Immigration Reform: "This Is The Year We're Gonna Get It Done"

Economy
In both a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.'s work and the legacy of the broader civil rights movement, more than 1,000 people packed the First Baptist Congregational Church on Chicago's West Side Saturday to rally for immigration reform. It's no surprise that activists ...
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by Angela Caputo
6:18pm
Mon Jan 11, 2010

Cook County Board Prez: Preckwinkle Picks Up Schakowsky's Endorsement

Jan Schakowsky

This afternoon, a who's who of Chicago progressives stood shoulder to shoulder with Ald. Toni Preckwinkle (4th Ward) to lend their support for her bid to unseat Todd Stroger as Cook County Board President. Among those present at the downtown Hotel Allegro was Illinois' ...

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by Adam Doster
1:05pm
Wed Dec 16, 2009
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The Gitmo-Thomson Debate Expands

Aaron Schock

With every passing day, it's looking more and more like Guantanamo detainees will be relocated to Northwest Illinois. Yesterday, senior White House officials provided some concrete details about their plan for moving a limited number of terror suspects to Thomson ...

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by Josh Kalven
1:11pm
Mon Dec 14, 2009

IL-SEN: "Two-Faced Kirk" (UPDATED w/Schakowsky Comments)

Mark Kirk

Last week, we noted GOP Senate candidate Mark Kirk's latest anti-earmark effort, pointing out that the whole thing sounded rather McCain-esque.  The AP, meanwhile, used Kirk's latest demagoguery to recall that he was a fan of earmarks not that long ago.  (Indeed, he ...

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by Angela Caputo
2:40pm
Thu Dec 10, 2009

Rigo's Deportation Halted (UPDATED)

Immigration

A bit of good news from our friends over at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR): Rigo Padilla's impending deportation (following a misdemeanor DUI offense) has been deferred for one year by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.&...

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by Angela Caputo
3:27pm
Fri Dec 4, 2009
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Schakowsky Goes To Bat For Rigo

Jan Schakowsky

For University of Illinois at Chicago junior Rigo Padilla, the countdown to deportation is now less than two weeks away.  And immigration reform activists are pulling out all the stops in an effort to push back the deadline.

Among them is Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky...

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by Angela Caputo
1:16pm
Wed Dec 2, 2009
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A Local Posterchild For Our Broken Immigration System

Chicago City Council

For months now, the Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) has kept a spotlight on Rigoberto Padilla, a 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student who is staring down a December deportation deadline. As the coalition points out, Rigo's situation...

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by Josh Kalven
12:21pm
Mon Nov 16, 2009

IL-SEN: Schakowsky Endorses Giannoulias, DSCC Whacks Kirk (UPDATED)

David Hoffman

The latest from the 2010 U.S. Senate race ... Yesterday afternoon, Rep. Jan Schakowksy announced her endorsement of State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias in the Democratic primary.  When they rolled out Rep. Luis Gutierrez' backing a week earlier, the campaign used the ...

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by Adam Doster
12:37pm
Tue Nov 10, 2009
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Schakowsky Won't Vote For Health Care Bill With Stupak Language (UPDATED)

Health Care

There aren't many lawmakers in Washington who have worked as hard as Rep. Jan Schakowsky to protect the reproductive rights of women. So it was with a lot of pain that the Northside Democrat ultimately swallowed a last-minute amendment to the historic health care reform bill ...