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Democratic gubernatorial candidates to speak in Des Plaines
Daily Herald report
Aug 18, 2017 7:43 PM - Maine Township and Elk Grove Township Democrats are hosting a gubernatorial forum next week in Des Plaines.
Rauner visits FEMA investigators in Fox Lake flood areas
By Lee Filas
Aug 18, 2017 5:18 PM - Governor Bruce Rauner met with federal and state officials in Fox Lake Friday to get a quick, first-hand assessment on the flood damage that crippled the Chain O' Lakes area in mid-July.
Strategist Steve Bannon leaves Trump's turbulent White House
By Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Damina Paletta
Aug 18, 2017 1:57 PM - President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed his embattled chief strategist Stephen Bannon, an architect of his 2016 general election victory, in a major White House shake-up that follows a week of racial unrest, according to multiple administration officials.
Tina Fey: Stay home from neo-Nazi rallies. Eat a sheet cake instead.
By Samantha Schmidt
Aug 18, 2017 10:03 AM - Tina Fey is fuming about last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, home to her alma mater, the University of Virginia. In response, the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian and writer is spearheading a movement: "sheet caking."
State Rep. Andersson: No room for moderate voices in statehouse
By Kerry Lester
Aug 17, 2017 4:25 PM - Republican state Rep. Steve Andersson of Geneva is the latest to say he won't run again. "I can't be effective with a moderate voice, and I will not stay if I'm not effective," the first-term lawmaker told the Daily Herald Thursday.
Trump decries Confederate monument removals, 'history ripped apart'
By JULIE BYKOWICZ and JONATHAN LEMIRE
Aug 17, 2017 1:15 PM - President Donald Trump bitingly decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to Confederate icons Thursday, declaring the nation is seeing "the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart."
Steve Bannon says rivals 'wetting themselves,' calls supremacists 'clowns'
Derek Hawkins
Aug 17, 2017 8:39 AM - Stephen K. Bannon, the White House chief strategist, seemed to take issue with President Donald Trump on North Korea, attacked white supremacists as "clowns" and "losers" and described his efforts against administration rivals in an unusual interview Wednesday with The American Prospect, a progressive magazine.
Suburban districts to pick up part of new teacher pensions in 2020
By Kerry Lester
Aug 17, 2017 5:30 AM - A change buried in this year's state budget would require suburban school districts to pick up a portion of costs for teacher pensions beginning in 2020, columnist Kerry Lester writes. Plus, a new law aimed at helping injured police dogs, the Cook County soda tax's impact on school lunches, and more.
Cook County soda tax would be banned under new state proposal
By Kerry Lester
Aug 17, 2017 5:56 AM - A Schaumburg state representive has introduced legislation that would prevent counties from taxing soda or sweetened beverages as Cook County has begun to do.
Naperville Democrat seeking Connelly's 21st Senate seat
By Marie Wilson
Aug 16, 2017 6:56 PM - Naperville Democrat Laura Ellman says she'll seek the 21st District seat held by Republican Michael Connelly.

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