City Colleges To Open High-Tech Facility For Transportation Career Training
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn announced plans Tuesday morning for a new City College facility to train students for transportation and logistics careers.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn announced plans Tuesday morning for a new City College facility to train students for transportation and logistics careers.
Gov. Pat Quinn says he will appeal the Federal Emergency Management Agency's denial of assistance to homeowners affected by the southern Illinois tornado.
Both U.S. Senators from Illinois, and Gov. Pat Quinn, are unhappy with the decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deny disaster aid to Southern Illinois counties ravaged by tornadoes.
A conservative think tank has proposed an alternative state budget that would cut wages for state employees by 10 percent; require retired workers to pay for their own health care premiums; and force local school districts to fund teacher pensions, instead of the state.
Gov. Pat Quinn took a surprise trip to Canada Monday to promote Illinois trade and business opportunities.
Former Illinois comptroller and gubernatorial candidate Dan Hynes is among the new appointees to the board of McPier, the joint City of Chicago and State of Illinois agency that oversees McCormick Place.
A day after he challenged lawmakers to help solve the state's dire financial problems, Gov. Pat Quinn tells CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine that pension costs can be tamed.
You didn't have to be a Democrat to like Gov. Pat Quinn's budget speech Wednesday, and you didn't have to be a Republican to hate it.
In presenting his 2012 budget plan Wednesday, Gov. Pat Quinn said the state's Medicaid is on the brink of collapse.
It's going to be painful. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn was putting the finishing touches Tuesday night on what can only be called a bad news budget; one which might stop the bleeding, but does little to treat the wound.
Illinois State Treasurer Dan Rutherford says it's time for long-range planning to come to government, and the state should be run more like a business.
A group representing Illinois businesses gives Gov. Pat Quinn average grades for job creation, and says an across-the-board budget cut is a good idea.
Gov. Pat Quinn said Monday that he plans to call for significant cuts to Medicaid funding as part of his effort to slash the state budget to spending levels lower than fiscal year 2008.
Gov. Pat Quinn is seeking to invest $50 million in the state's scholarship program.
Gov. Pat Quinn has asked all the state's constitutional offices and some state agencies to slash their annual budgets by at least 9 percent, but won't say how he arrived at that figure.
More than 30 Illinois school districts will split $623 million in state construction funding to repair and update aging facilities, under a program announced Thursday.
Wrecking crews will be finishing the job that The Blues Brothers started more than 30 years ago – demolishing the Dixie Square Mall in south suburban Harvey.
Gov. Pat Quinn is reacting to last week's announcement by Caterpillar that Illinois is out of the running as the location for a new plant that would create 1,400 jobs.
A measure under consideration in Springfield would place ethics reforms in the hands of citizens.
A motoring gadfly is challenging arguments that a blanket of speed enforcement cameras will improve safety for Chicago schoolchildren.
Gov. Pat Quinn previewed some tough budget choices Tuesday, saying he wants to cut $2 billion from the state's Medicaid budget to help solve the state's fiscal woes.
Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation allowing the City of Chicago to use cameras to catch speeders near schools and parks.
Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday defended his call for "investment" in several new programs in his State of the State Address, even though the state is in a budget crisis.
Big corporations got tax breaks last year, and the state's largest public employee union is still asking, what about us?
As U.S. automakers' fortunes rebound, Chrysler has brought some of the benefit to Illinois, with 1,800 new jobs at its Belvidere Assembly Plant.
