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After controversy, mayor says standards coming for Des Plaines Theatre bookingsJan 27, 2023 4:02 PM - Following community backlash over a conservative group's now-canceled booking of the city-owned Des Plaines Theatre, municipal leaders are working with the company that operates the venue to develop standards for future events.
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Video shows struggle for hammer during Pelosi attack
Jan 27, 2023 3:07 PM - Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting with his assailant for control of a hammer moments before he was struck during a brutal attack in the couple's San Francisco home last year.
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Biden picks Zients as his next White House chief of staff
Jan 27, 2023 12:29 PM - President Joe Biden announced Jeff Zients as his next White House chief of staff on Friday, tapping an experienced technocrat who headed his administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as Biden prepares for a reelection bid while facing an onslaught of investigations from a newly empowered House Republican majority.
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Does bail reform lead to more crime? What 2 Loyola University professors found
Jan 27, 2023 8:16 AM - Amid last year's contentious debate over the SAFE-T Act and the elimination of cash bail in Illinois, a pair of Loyola University Chicago criminal justice professors set out to determine whether bail reform does, as some claimed, lead to more crime. Here's what they found.
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Wauconda, Lakemoor asking voters for home-rule authorityJan 27, 2023 5:20 AM - Voters in Lakemoor and Wauconda will get to decide whether their respective communities should have home-rule authority, allowing them to impose a local gas or sales tax.
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Roselle Public Library District holds referendum info sessionsJan 26, 2023 7:28 PM - The Roselle Public Library District will host the first of several informational sessions on Friday, Jan. 27.
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Son of ex-legislator goes on trial, fights charges tied to Madigan probe
Jan 26, 2023 6:33 PM - A son of former state Rep. Edward "Eddie" Acevedo went on trial in federal court Thursday, where he is accused of filing false income tax returns in a spinoff of the feds' larger bribery investigation involving ComEd and former state House Speaker Michael Madigan.
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Illinois attorney general contests 'badly flawed' ruling that blocked end of cash bail
Jan 26, 2023 5:40 PM - The Illinois attorney general's office on Thursday filed its opening argument with the state's highest court as it seeks to overturn a judge's ruling that found parts of the controversial SAFE-T Act unconstitutional.
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Past U.S. presidents, vice presidents asked to recheck for classified docs
Jan 26, 2023 3:16 PM - The National Archives has asked former U.S. presidents and vice presidents to recheck their personal records for any classified documents following the news that President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence had such documents in their possession, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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How classified documents became a schoolgirl's show-and-tell
Jan 26, 2023 3:16 PM - On a winter's day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn't supposed to have them.
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