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-- Connecting the dots between our economy, government and business --

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Day: February 12, 2018

John Hancock losing its John Hancock, becoming 875 N. Michigan Ave. – Chicago Sun-Times

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The iconic John Hancock Center will be known by its address, 875 N. Michigan Ave., until the building’s owner secures a long-term naming rights deal.

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Trump’s infrastructure plan: 5 things it could mean for Chicago, state roads and airports – Chicago Tribune

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Thieves brag on social media as Chicago carjacking surge leads to highest number in a decade – Fox News

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Madigan fires alderman’s brother for ‘inappropriate conduct’ with woman – Chicago Sun-Times

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Contagion and Illinois’ local municipal bond problems – Crain’s

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Comment: Sure wish this were in readable form and not a slideshow.

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When Illinois home values fall, but property taxes don’t – Illinois Policy

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Pritzker the sneak disser might as well have said the N-word – Chicago Reader

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Biz group blasts Ives’ new immigration ad – Crain’s

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A major state business group is taking to task GOP gubernatorial hopeful Jeanne Ives, saying her latest hot-button TV ad is “fundamentally dishonest” on the subject of immigration and immigrants who get into legal trouble.

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Handwritten documents, Manila folders, carbon paper — welcome to Cook County criminal court – Chicago Tribune

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Every workday, attorneys enter criminal courtrooms across Cook County, put away their smartphones and operate in a world that their grandparents would have recognized: accordion-style Manila folders to hold paper documents, handwritten orders for judges to sign, even carbon paper to make copies of the paper filings.

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Hundreds of local officials in DuPage have salaries over $100,000 – Illinois Policy

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Pension benefits overwhelm taxpayers, Ted on WTAD – Audio

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Ted on WTAD Quincy. Quincy household incomes are up just 97 percent since 1990, total state pension benefits grew seven times more than than that.

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State lawmakers looking for elusive revenue estimate for coming fiscal – INN

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Incomes in top 50 Illinois cities can’t keep pace with state pensions – Wirepoints Original

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Illinoisans are losing out everywhere they turn. Their incomes are stagnant. They’ve just been hit with a record $5 billion dollar income tax hike. They have to pay the nation’s’ highest property taxes. And they have to pay for the total state pension benefits that have grown exponentially over the past 30 years.

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