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“It’s been a very circuitous journey to find out what my calling is, what is being asked of me in the truest sense, that will bring all of my being,” he said. “This requires all of my mind, heart and devotion. And that is a beautiful thing.”
True numbers are 2X or 3X worse and show the genuine bind Illinois is in — not just an ego clash between Rauner and Madigan.
Sanders was the star of this year’s People’s Summit, which has quickly become the country’s largest progressive political conference. At least 4,000 people trekked to Chicago for a weekend of teach-ins, panels and dance parties.
It was supposed to be a rally against Sharia law, but those demonstrators were quickly outnumbered by counter-protestors in Chicago on Saturday afternoon.
The state is paying in full for pensions and debt service, and also a large part of K-12 spending. Any of those areas could be possibilities for coming up with money to meet the latest court order. Or maybe they’ll figure out some other way to shift money into payments for Medicaid.
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