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Rahm responds to Vallas’ education challenge

Rahm responds to Vallas’ education challenge

Vallas wants to put core programs of each specialty – health care, professional services, IT, advanced manufacturing, logistics, culinary & hospitality  – on each campus so the students don’t have to commute so far to reach the campus of their choice.  

Kavanaugh makes courtesy visit with Durbin today

Kavanaugh makes courtesy visit with Durbin today

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO)  President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Bret Kavanaugh has been meeting with senators who will be at his confirmation hearings next month and he’ll meet with Sen. Dick  Durbin this morning. It’s a courtesy call that will NOT produce a Durbin vote for Kavanaugh. Durbin says he’s against Kavanaugh because…

Democrats gather in Chicago to confront lingering 2016 frustration

Democrats gather in Chicago to confront lingering 2016 frustration

By BILL BARROW, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Democrats are bullish about their prospects in the November midterms, and are peeking around the corner at a 2020 rematch with President Donald Trump. But first, they’re confronting the lingering frustration from 2016. That bitter nominating fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is front and center in…

McCarthy: Change needed at the top

McCarthy: Change needed at the top

“Nothing gets managed. The police department is not being managed they way it was managed a couple of years ago.”

Steve Bannon wants GOP to rally behind Trump

Steve Bannon wants GOP to rally behind Trump

“You can’t look at this as a midterm and you can’t run it out of the traditional Republican playbook. If you do that, you’re going to get smoked.”