LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has come into conflict with President Donald Trump, saying that sending the National Guard into Chicago to get a handle on the violence would be a “mistake.” Although Trump broached the subject in a tweet Tuesday, saying that he would “send in the feds”…
by Kitty Testa Claire Ball has spent the last year criss-crossing the state of Illinois campaigning as a Libertarian candidate. Her husband, traveling companion and DuPage County Libertarian Chair, Brian Lambrecht, estimates that they’ve traveled 8-10 thousand miles. She’s a 34-year-old accountant running for the chief accountant’s job in Illinois, the Comptroller’s office. The office…
by Blake Neff Sen. Mark Kirk says Republicans presidential nominee Donald Trump should quit the race after Friday’s release of a video in which Trump made extremely lewd comments about women. “@realDonaldTrump should drop out. @GOP should engage rules for emergency replacement,” Kirk said in a Twitter post Friday evening. .@realDonaldTrump should drop out. @GOP…
by Casey Harper A convent of Illinois nuns has filed a lawsuit to shut down a Chicago-area strip club in their own backyard, alleging that there is a lot more than lap dances going on behind closed doors. A hearing for the Stone Park strip club’s motion to dismiss the case will be heard Tuesday….
Last November we ran a story on Robert Battle, a man who was reelected to city council seat one month after being charged with murder. On Friday, Battle was sworn in while behind bars at a local jail. The Chicago Tribune reports: Sheriff David Reynolds confirmed Saturday that an unnamed official was brought in to…
Blake Neff Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner harshly condemned Rahm Emanuel Wednesday, denouncing the Chicago mayor as a total failure while suggesting a bold plan for a state takeover of Chicago schools. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has a severe budget deficit of about $480 million. In order to stay afloat, the city government has been forced…
Rachel Stoltzfoos The story of the Illinois cop who appears to have staged his suicide to look like a homicide keeps getting weirder. The September death of Fox Lake Police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz from a gunshot wound to the chest left many calling him a hero and sparked a massive manhunt for the killers. Gliniewicz had…
Casey Harper The shooting death of an Illinois police officer that launched a manhunt for the killers is now being called a “carefully staged suicide.” Lt. Joe Gliniewicz of the Fox Lake Police Department radioed in on Sept. 1 that he was chasing three people on foot. He radioed in for backup but police found him…
Connor D. Wolf A single paper company estimates it lost $14 million solely from a recent worker strike, according to a financial report released Wednesday. The Illinois-based KapStone Paper and Packaging Corp. has several locations around the states that generally report good results. While the company did well overall, union unrest at its Longview, Wash.,…