Jun
29
Rep. Mark Kirk betrays IL workers and families.
Category: IL-10, U.S. House, federal | 
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by Allen Skillicorn
Last week federal government regulation won a battle against Illinois workers and every Illinois resident. “Energy prices will skyrocket under Obama’s Cap & Trade plan” says columnist Kerry Picket. Illinois still has hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs. Currently the Illinois unemployment rate is figured to be 10.1%.
The debate over climate change is [...]
Jun
27
Cap’n Tax Energy/Global Warming Bill passes the US House
Category: IL-10, IL-11, IL-14, IL-16, IL-18, IL-6, Party Politics, U.S. House, policy, video | Leave a Comment
Here’s a brief update on what happened Friday, from the Wall Street Journal:
Sep
10
The Problem with the EJ&E Deal: Overpasses Are Expensive (Example, $7 million for recent Rochelle project)
Category: Cook County, Dupage, IL-10, Lake County, federal, suburbs, transportation, video | Leave a Comment
With the heated ongoing debate over the EJ&E rail line sale to effectively increase fright train traffic around the Chicago suburbs, it’s important to consider how much overpasses cost.
Recently a $3 million grant from the Economic Development Administration was announce for Rochelle, toward building a much needed overpass. The construction project isn’t cheap though; the [...]
Aug
17
Elgin is Fastest Growing North American City in Recent Census Report
Category: IL-10, IL-6, transportation | Leave a Comment
-crossposted from The Courier News
We all know the Elgin area has been growing fast. But you probably don’t realize just how fast.
Would you believe the city of Elgin is the fastest-growing large city in the northern United States?
It all depends on how one defines “fastest-growing,” of course. But there it is in black and white [...]
Jul
23
DCCC Expands TV Ad Buys in Illinois
Category: IL-10, IL-11, IL-14, U.S. House, suburbs | Leave a Comment
-crossposted from Chris Cillizza’s The Fix blog on the Washington post (read full here)
Ack, that’s a lot of gross rating points!
District
Incumbent
Early Buy Amt.
Early Buy Pts.
IL-10
Kirk (R)
$1.4 M
2,300
IL-11
Weller (R)-Open
$1.6 M
4,200 (multiple mkts.)
IL-14
Foster (D)
$1.02 M
2,400 (multiple mkts.)
Jul
19
Saturday Picks
Category: IL-10, State, U.S. House | Leave a Comment
Aaron Chambers from the Rockford Register writes Only journalists benefit from this state government. It begins:
This is the “golden era” of state government, as a colleague told me recently.
For as long as any of us in the Statehouse press corps remain in our jobs, state government coverage will never be as fruitful as it is [...]
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