South Shore and South Bend; Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern; and Chesapeake & Indiana…Please click here

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explaining the significance of the bistate cooperation that made the trail connection possible…Please click here to read  Paul Czapkowicz’s story in the Times, or a related editorial here.

demand from millions of former home owners who have lost properties through foreclosures…Please click here

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The plan calls for acquiring both vacant land and large blocks with homes on them…Please click here to …Please click here to read Cindy Wojdyla Cain’s story in the Southtown Star. Tuesday at the community center…Please click here to read Casey Toner’s story in the Sun-Times. whether any compensation would even be enough for them to find someplace else to live…Please click here For a map of the proposed mine development project, click here.

funding sources simply are not providing the funds to address massive construction projects…Please click here

Amazon and other online businesses had challenged the state’s online sales tax in court….Please click here

…Please click here to read  Kurt Erickson Lee’s story in the Times.

major gambling expansion measure that would add a casino in Chicago and four other sites…Please click here

transportation plan after almost three hours of public discussion at the Willis Tower…Please click here victory for economic development and jobs that he said will strengthen the state’s economy….Please click here operating and maintaining the road under a 35-year deal, with tolls repaying the debt…Please click here Please click here to read the Associated Press/ CBS news story. the chiefs of the mass transit agencies and county board chairmen in northeast Illinois…Please click here

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