State Rep. Dan Burke (D-Chicago) didn’t breathe easy until early Wednesday morning, when it became official that he had indeed held off Rudy Lozano, Jr. to secure his name on the November ballot.
It was the first time Burke had faced a challenge in a primary in nearly two decades of representing the 23rd House...
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Gretchen Watson got an undergraduate degree and her master’s, too, thanks to the Illinois General Assembly scholarship program. For seven years, Watson, now an elementary school teacher, didn’t have to worry about tuition bills at Northeastern University.
Mary Kate McLoughlin, the daughter of a Chicago precinct captain who works for state comptroller Dan Hynes and...
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The Illinois General Assembly scholarship doesn’t work like other scholarships.
Some students win it because they have the right connections. Others don’t face much competition for the award – a year of free tuition at one of 12 public universities in Illinois. And several recipients don’t even meet the one requirement of the state’s century-old...
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The Illinois General Assembly scholarships have become a family affair for dozens of siblings who’ve secured tens of thousands of dollars in free tuition to the state’s public universities since 2003.
There’s just one main requirement in the century-old state law that created the legislative scholarship program: Applicants must live in the awarding lawmaker’s district....
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Community gardens. Buying the Leone Beach house. Security cameras on the “L” platforms.
Those were just a few of the suggestions 49th Ward residents gave last week on how to spend next year’s aldermanic menu money during a community meeting held by Ald. Joe Moore (49th). In what Moore says will be...
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Lakeview resident Marie Poppy remembers a time when residents of the neighborhood were scared to walk too far from their homes because of all the crime and homeless people present in the area.
“There were gangs on the streets when we moved here in the early 90s,” said Poppy. “At the time, crime was a...
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