Quinn to EPA: Don’t reduce ethanol content – Associated Press
February 16, 2014
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What does concealed carry mean for Illinois businesses?
February 16, 2014
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Business owners whose establishments are explicitly off-limits to concealed firearms have discretion as to whether to allow it. This is a guide for business owners regarding the new law that took effect this year. http://www.nwherald.com/2014/02/14/what-does-concealed-carry-mean-for-illinois-businesses/aadwt6g/
Chicago should welcome ride-shares – Opinion/Chicago Tribune
February 16, 2014
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For the better part of a century, Chicago has regulated the taxi industry with a tight fist. Then along came the so-called “ride-share” services whose smartphone apps match nonprofessional drivers using their own cars with customers who would otherwise, let’s be honest, call a cab. Instead of banning them, Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants aldermen to pass an ordinance regulating the ride-shares. http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/524/article/p2p-79312162/
In downtown Chicago, building boom depresses apartment rents – Crain’s
February 16, 2014
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http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20140213/CRED03/140219855/building-boom-depresses-downtown-apartment-rents
Medicaid providers to Illinois Gov. Quinn: Why the expansion rush? – Watchdog.org
February 16, 2014
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Illinois is rushing toward an overhaul of its Medicaid system, even as the people tasked with caring for the sick, the old and the disabled are begging for the state to slow down. via Illinois’ rush toward Medicaid changes to save on health care spending.
Colossal Deceit and Hypocrisy in Illinois Public Union Ad Campaign Against Rauner – WP Original
February 16, 2014
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“Would Cinda Klickna and her teachers’ union like their pension investment in Bruce Rauner’s firm rescinded, profits disgorged, and their vote for it annulled, since they think it’s so tainted? Fat chance.” February 16, 2014 By: Mark Glennon Bruce Rauner is a sleazy profiteer who squeezed public pensions to make his fortune — that’s what the public unions are telling us in their $2 million media campaign underway now. In one case they often cite, GTCR, Rauner’s old firm that made him rich, got a big investment from the Illinois teachers’ pension thanks, they say, to a now-notorious