Rauner Vows Special Session Without Education Funding Plan By Noon Monday
Lawmakers could be staring at another special session, because of a dispute over education funding, after the governor gave an ultimatum.
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Lawmakers could be staring at another special session, because of a dispute over education funding, after the governor gave an ultimatum.
President Trump's weekly presidential address, followed by the Democratic response.
Durbin said he and Sen. Tammy Duckworth have tried to convince Rauner to publicly weigh in on the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Hastert, 75, was sentenced to 15 months in prison last year, and reported to Rochester Federal Medical Center in Minnesota last June.
With little more than a month until many school districts open their doors, Springfield still hasn't finalized a school funding plan.
In his room at a Rochester, Minn. hotel, police authorities found the body of 81-year-old Peter W. Smith on May 14.
It's the first damage done, officials say, now that a controversial soda tax is in legal limbo.
Gov. Bruce Rauner made a state disaster declaration for Lake, McHenry, and Kane counties, as a result of major flooding.
"This is just not a way to run any government," Dart said. "Eviscerating this office is not a way thoughtful people proceed."
They demand federal oversight for Chicago police.
A trio of Cook County commissioners proposed forming a working group to cut the budget without mass layoffs while the soda tax is on hold.
The mayor said the post-budget shakeup at the governor's office is symptomatic of a basic problem with the way Rauner has been governing.
Cook County government was counting -- literally -- on a sweetened-beverage tax to balance its budget. The tax is in legal limbo. CBS 2's Jim Williams reports.
The remodeled children's library was designed to encourage learning through play.
Chicago's new Civilian Office of Police Accountability opens for business Sept. 15 with 140 full-time employees, 90 of them investigators.
