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Apple is doubling down on Austin and adding jobs in several cities, but not Chicago, confirming what local officials have known or suspected for months.
Stava-Murray also alleges that she was pressured to change her mind on the speaker vote at the House women’s caucus retreat. She accuses retiring Majority Leader Barbara Flynn-Currie, D-Chicago, of “threatening” that she “had better change” her vote by January.
Ed Bachrach and Austin Berg are the authors of “The New Chicago Way: Lessons from other Big Cities,” which will be published in January 2019 by Southern Illinois University Press.
Comment: Not just mayors. The head of every one of Illinois’ gazillion units of government should be saying “Us, too.” The state constitution must be amended broadly to allow particular pension reforms needed everywhere.
Excerpts from his speech.
One-time U.S. Senate candidate Blair Hull quietly folded his Ketchum trading business earlier this year and moved back to California.
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