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"We stopped Trump!" is the chant now at his canceled rally in Chicago.
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Protesters have begun to try to push over a fence in front of the courthouse in Kenosha. Sheriff’s deputies in riot gear have emerged from the courthouse. Some are throwing projectiles at the officers.
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Crowd now chanting "Bernie! Bernie!" at Donald Trump's postponed rally in Chicago.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth delivering her Senate speech: "I earned my wounds, proudly fighting in a war I did not support on the orders of a president I did not vote for, because I believe in the values of our nation, because I believe in a government of, by and for the people."
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Demonstrators erupt after Wisconsin's 10 presidential electors cast their
#ElectoralCollege
ballots for Republican Donald Trump.
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Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth endorses former Vice President Joe Biden for president: "Joe actually delivers." Her move comes hours after fellow veteran Pete Buttigieg dropped out of the race:
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The Bernie Sanders campaign just moved its rally in Flint tonight to a larger venue because of an overwhelming response. Sanders will have stumped in Detroit, Dearborn, Flint, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor before Biden steps foot in the state of Michigan on Monday.
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A shooter opened fire at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital, with multiple victims, including an officer. “We have an officer being worked in at the ER,” also a nurse who was shot being brought back into the hospital, for treatment.
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@chancetherapper
now signing autographs in the lobby of Chicago City Hall with youth who turned out to oppose the construction of a new $95M police academy on the West Side.
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The Iowa fall Democratic fundraising dinner, now known as Liberty & Justice Celebration, is a crucial moment in Iowa for candidates to show campaign organization. On pure crowd size alone, Pete Buttigieg has the largest backing here, which comes as he surges in the Iowa polls.
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With all of Wisconsin's election precincts reporting, Joe Biden holds a lead of about 20K votes. The state now will begin its canvassing process to double and triple check vote totals, says Megan Wolfe, the state's top elections official. Results remain unofficial.
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@chancetherapper
says Chicago should be spending millions on underfunded schools, not on a new $95M police academy that he says the city can’t afford. Mayor Rahm Emanuel left the chamber before his remarks.
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Demonstrators chanting Black Lives Matter square off with law enforcement in the middle of Sheridan Road in downtown Kenosha. Some in the crowd threw rocks and shot fireworks, police responded with tear gas and flash bangs.
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Protesters celebrate after it's announced Trump has canceled his Chicago rally.
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The campaign advised Joe Biden’s Illinois virtual town hall would air on Facebook Live. It did so for only four minutes before it was over.
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"One state Democratic source ...said they were told Pritzker, the billionaire entrepreneur and heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, would issue a statement about his political future on Monday and that they expected the second-term Illinois governor “would be running for something.”
President Biden's decision to drop out creates big questions for Chicago convention, Gov. J.B. Pritzker's political future. Story by
@rap30
@JeremyGorner
&
@byaliceyin
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A girl waiting to stand behind Bernie Sanders at a Chicago news conference this morning.
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Plenty of spaces available in the parking lot, but when you’re Congressman Bobby Rush, you VIP park in front of the hydrant.
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Kanye West gave $73,540 Monday to Amara Enyia, a Chicago mayor candidate backed by Chance the Rapper. The donation from West, who is an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, is the exact amount in fines Enyia faces from state election officials:
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Kanye West just shows up at Amara Enyia’s Woodlawn campaign event. Yesterday, he gave more than $73K to her campaign
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg holds a rally at a high school gymnasium in Decorah, Iowa — the first stop on a three-day bus tour.
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Pete Buttigieg now speaking: "The first time I came to this state was to knock on doors for a presidential candidate, a young man with a funny name. And we knew the stakes were high then. The stakes are colossal now. This country cannot afford four more years of Donald Trump."
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Some personal news, as they say: I'm thrilled to join The New York Times later this month. Helping build the foundation for the next generation of journalists is important work, and I'm excited to get started:
We’re excited to welcome
@BillRuthhart
, who will be a writing coach and editor for our newsroom fellowship and early-career programs.
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Duckworth: "Ask yourself whether the democracy they were willing to bleed for, the country each of us .. has sworn to defend is worth damaging in order to protect the porcelain ego of a man who treats your constitution as if it were little more than a yellowing piece of paper."
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Biden also walked out of the frame at one point as he answers a question on endangered species, so his team switched the video to a screenshot of the Illinois for Biden logo.
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Trump with a narrow lead in Wisconsin with about 1/3 of the expected vote in. A reminder that all of the mail-in/absentee ballots in Milwaukee have to be counted at a central facility in their entirety before they are reported. They are not expected until between 3 and 6 a.m.
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The Bernie Sanders campaign just announced it is canceling a rally scheduled for Tuesday in Rockford. This is the third rally his campaign has canceled in recent days because of scheduling changes — Jackson, MS and Kansas City the other two.
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A woman just interrupted Mayor Rahm Emanuel's MLK breakfast for a few minutes, shouting "16 shots and a cover up!"
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J.B. Pritzker just committed a major Quad-Cities faux pas, pronouncing Milan, IL like the fashionable city in Italy instead of the small town along the Rock River (properly pronounced MY-lin).
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Joe Biden's Illinois virtual hall was scheduled to start at 4 p.m., then pushed to 6 p.m., then 6:10, 6:20 and now 6:30. Turns out the former vice president is about as punctual virtually as he is in reality.
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Some personal news: I’m starting a new gig for the Tribune, covering the 2020 presidential race through a Midwestern lens. Of course, there is plenty to write about. Thoughts and story ideas welcome in DMs or at bruthhart
@chicagotribune
.com. Thanks all,
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Today is my last day at the Chicago Tribune. It has been the thrill and responsibility of a lifetime to represent millions of Chicagoans as their eyes and ears, questioning their elected officials and working on their behalf to hold government and its leaders accountable.
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IL Sen. Tammy Duckworth quietly is writing an autobiography, one her political mentor Sen. Richard Durbin thinks Americans will be "stunned" to read. Could her shot at becoming Joe Biden's running mate mark the latest turn in her remarkable life story?
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Kamala Harris has taken the stage, buoyed by a crowd of supporters only rivaled by Warren and Buttigieg: "Iowa, I stand before you here today, for the people, fully prepared to beat Donald Trump." "For the people!" Harris supporters chant.
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Shoes of the day to Conor McGregor, who just smirked when Mayor Rahm Emanuel joked, “I’ll kick his ass.”
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Duckworth calls Trump a "petty insecure wannabe tin pot dictator on the precipice of losing power and relevance."
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Republican Erika Harold has conceded victory to Democrat Kwame Raoul in the Illinois attorney general's race.
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The campaign reports it had technical problems with Facebook and the audio during his introductory remarks. I can, however, report how it ended: “I’m sorry this had been such a disjointed effort because of the connections, but I’ve probably said too much to you,” Biden concluded.
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In a shocking announcement, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he won't run for a third term: "I've decided not to seek re-election. This has been the job of a lifetime, but it is not a job for a lifetime."
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Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger will vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
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Pro-Trump candidate announces plans to challenge one of the former president’s Republican critics, U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger:
I don’t have the support of the liberal ran mainstream/fake news media like my opponent, RINO Adam Kinzinger does so I’m thankful for real news outlets like the
@DailyCaller
for covering my campaign launch!
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Nearly 36 years ago, this was the Chicago Tribune front page as Harold Washington won election as Chicago’s first black mayor (lead byline
@davidaxelrod
). Tonight, a new chapter will be written when Chicago elects its first African-American woman as mayor.
#ChiMayor19
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Bernie Sanders says if he lived in Chicago he'd be "active in that effort" to call on Rahm Emanuel to resign.
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For the record, Buttigieg got a strike on his next attempt. So no Obama-like bowling miscues for the South Bend mayor.
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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin now speaking on the Senate floor. He immediately invokes Abraham Lincoln's support for the completion of construction of the U.S. Capitol. "This is a special place, this is a sacred place. But this sacred place was desecrated by a mob today on our watch"
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As President Trump spoke at a Kenosha high school with business owners and law enforcement, Jacob Blake’s family held a block party a little more than a mile away. Free haircuts, bouncy houses, a voter registration drive and children making artwork for Blake’s hospital room.
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Under legal pressure, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledges having hid city business on personal email accounts:
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"Bernie! Bernie!" "Si, se puede!" "We stopped Trump!" "No more hate!" are the chants at the Republican front-runner's canceled Chicago rally
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Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren will join striking Chicago teachers on the picket line tomorrow morning, per her campaign.
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Chicago's longest-serving and most powerful Ald. Ed Burke is facing federal fraud charges for using his public office for personal gain. The complaint "charges Edward M. Burke with attempting, by extortion, to obstruct and affect commerce." More to come.
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A pair of fireworks shot at officers near entrance of the courthouse. They are now putting on their gas masks and protesters are preparing for tear gas.
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Duckworth calls the pro-Trump mob storming the Capitol "an attempt to subvert our democracy." She says Trump has "always had an adversarial relationship with the truth. Trump always cries conspiracy, always foments chaos."
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Chicago Tribune sues Mayor Rahm Emanuel over use of private email, texts for public business:
http://t.co/2WizygkGJT
http://t.co/v2fZroSrz5
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All candidates for IL attorney general just committed to ensuring Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration and CPD are placed under a federal consent decree to ensure court oversight police reform, if current AG Lisa Madigan can't resolve that effort by the end of her term.
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Buttigieg gets the loudest applause of the night when asked how he’d interact with leaders in countries where it is illegal to be gay: “They’re going to have to get used to it.”
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has tapped billionaire tech mogul
@ElonMusk
's Boring Company to build high-speed transit tunnels that would tie Loop with O'Hare in just 12 minutes at more than 100 mph. Our story:
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Cook County Clerk Dorothy Brown, who is under federal investigation, appears to have issued a news release indicating she will run against Rahm Emanuel for mayor. Only in Chicago.
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Buttigieg closing his speech ... "Iowans, I am asking for you to caucus for me on Feb. 3, because we know what the presidency is for, not the glorification of the president. It is for the unification of the American people ... Let's make history"
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This is how the Rahm Emanuel PR machine works. This announcement was made just before a Tribune story published today on how Emanuel's policies on affordable housing have fallen short & squeezed families out of growing areas. Read the Tribune piece here:
More affordable housing is headed to Chicago! Today we launched the Chicago Opportunity Investment Fund, a $30 million fund that will provide low-cost financing to developers to create & preserve affordable rental housing in gentrifying markets. 🏠
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Duckworth: "All that I'm asking of you is to reflect on the oath that you have sworn, on the damage the damage done to our union today and on the sacrifices made by those who have given so much to this nation."
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Rev. Matthew Ross interrupts Mayor Rahm Emanuel's MLK interfaith breakfast in protest.
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For a week now, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has ignored questions on why he won't seek a federal consent decree for the Chicago Police Dept.
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In an exclusive interview with the Tribune, former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy details why he's running against the man who fired him - Mayor Rahm Emanuel - to, in his words, save "a great American city."
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Duckworth chokes up as she alludes to injuries she suffered in combat: "I have no tea to throw in Boston harbor tonight, and I regret that I have no knapsack to pack for my country, no Blackhawk to pilot ... nor am I asking for any grand gesture from my Republican colleagues .."
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A couple hundred protesters remain here. A larger peaceful protest broke up shortly after 8 pm and mostly dispersed.
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For those scoring at home, here is how IL GOP members of Congress voted on AZ objection: Mary Miller and Mike Bost in favor; Rodney Davis, Adam Kinzinger and Darin LaHood opposed.
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A stunning loss for Berrios, Cook Co. Democratic Party chairman. It's the result of dogged, painstaking
@chicagotribune
and
@ProPublicaIL
reporting of
@jasongrotto
that exposed an unfair property tax assessment system that favored the connected & wealthy:
Embattled incumbent Joe Berrios concedes to Fritz Kaegi in Cook County assessor's race
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Buttigieg on a big tent campaign: "I also will not tire from the effort to include everyone in this future we are trying to build, progressives, moderates and Republicans of conscience who are ready for change."
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About 40 Chicago Fraternal Order of Police members are standing behind a dozen uniformed officers in the second floor lobby of City Hall. Blocking their path to the City Council chamber are three times as many protesters shouting “16 shots and a cover-up!”
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Pete Buttigieg arrives at a student center at South Carolina State University, an HBCU in Orangeburg.
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The last time the Tribune sued City Hall, Rahm Emanuel spent a bunch of taxpayer money in a bid to keep his emails about public business secret. He lost badly. The refusal to release this new set of records seems to undercut Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s vow to “Bring in the Light.”
The Chicago Tribune has filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago over records on cases involving misconduct allegations that officials have refused to release.
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker on GOP state Rep. Darren Bailey being removed from the House chamber for not wearing a mask: “The representative has shown a callous disregard for life, callous disregard for people’s health ...Clearly, the representative has not interest in protecting others.”
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On the left,
@ilgop
photo-shop of today's front page. On the right, the real front page with news of Gov. Rauner's DCFS director resigning.
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That didn't take long. NBC has called the Illinois governor's race for J.B. Pritzker. AP has yet to even report any numbers in the race. Pritzker has been up double digits in the polls over Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
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Republican Speaker of the Wisconsin state Assembly ...
In secret recording, Vos says immigrant 'culture' was to blame for COVID-19 outbreak in Racine County
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Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg’s overwhelmingly white crowd at an event on Chicago’s South Side reinforces his struggles to draw support from black voters. He closed with a plea to "find the people who don't look like most of you in this room"
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A+ Wrigley Field-themed Halloween setup in Buena Park, complete with an Old Style vendor handing out the candy.
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Ten years ago today, I started writing for the Chicago Tribune. I'm grateful for the thousands of people who have shared their stories and views with me over the years. I'm celebrating the day by talking to voters in Wisconsin.
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A reminder that taxpayers coughed up $432 million for the renovation of Soldier Field less than 20 years ago. The Bears spent $32M of their own money, with another $168M coming from the NFL and the sale of seat licenses.
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Car jackings in Chicago have become so rampant, aldermen are promoting events like this one ...
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With 55 percent of precincts reporting, here's your top five in the Chicago mayoral race:
1. Lightfoot - 16.9%
2. Preckwinkle - 15.5%
3. Daley - 14.6%
4. Wilson - 10.2%
5. Mendoza - 9.3%
#ChiMayor19
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Officers and the National Guard repeatedly have advised the crowd this is an unlawful gathering. Most of the group remains with some consistently throwing by projectiles at law enforcement
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For those wondering, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are neck-and-neck for the next largest show of support behind Buttigieg at the Liberty & Justice dinner in Des Moines.
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"This is an American problem." Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg addresses systemic racism in a Chicago speech as the fallout from the shooting of a black man by a white officer in South Bend continues to dominate his campaign:
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Buttigieg: "I don't get helicoptered into a golf course with my name on it and pretend to care about the working class. I don't even golf."
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"I don't have to throw myself a military parade to see what a convoy looks like," Buttigieg says to cheers, "because I was driving one around Afghanistan about the same time this president was filming Season 7 of the Apprentice."
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.
@JaymalGreen
opened this South Side forum up with a heater: Harold’s or Uncle Remus? Kozlar & Mendoza say Harold’s. McCarthy & Ford back Uncle Remus. Lightfoot said she doesn’t eat either but prefers a hot, dipped Al’s Italian beef. Vallas said he’s had neither, prefers KFC.
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Finally got an iPhone with the portrait setting. This first masterpiece is entitled “Get off my lawn” featuring
@rap30
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All three are African-Americans and will give Buttigieg black surrogates from the state who can join him on the trail, in addition to allies from South Bend and others he's called on to travel with him in the Palmetto state.
.
@PeteButtigieg
picks up his first South Carolina endorsements: Anderson Mayor
@TerenceVRoberts
, Laurens Councilwoman Alicia Sullivan and Chesnee Councilwoman Verhonda Crawford.
#SC2020
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Can we all agree that the virtual fans on Fox’s baseball telecast are ridiculous and need to go?
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago's airlines are nearing an $8.5 billion deal to dramatically expand O'Hare, adding what would become the first "global alliance hub" terminal in the U.S., dozens of new gates and increasing the airport's square footage by 75%.
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Kanye West departed Amara Enyia’s campaign event after about 5 minutes, before it ended. He did not speak, but was here for the photo opp.
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Bernie Sanders slams Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Hillary Clinton for supporting him
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Buttigieg camp emphasizing strong grassroots support following yesterday's debate performance ....
🚨 🚨 🚨
We are officially over $1M raised in the past 24 hours from tens of thousands of donors
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How did a Chicago high school get in line for a new $13 million gym to lure a star basketball coach? All one of Rahm Emanuel's campaign donors had to do was ask. Politics, clout, education reform, powerhouse basketball and more at play here. My story:
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