Tea Party-affiliated U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) has already described claims of his owing more than $115,000 in back child support payments as “wildly and off-the-charts inaccurate,” but in a court filing submitted Tuesday, the freshman congressman accused his ex-wife Laura Walsh of lying about their arrangement. Walsh said that his ex-wife’s claims are a [...]
WASHINGTON — An ardent opponent of the federal stimulus plan showed up Monday in Winnetka, Ill., to smile and cut the ribbon at a ceremony unveiling a local project funded by that very stimulus. “Originally built in the 1940s, the [train] station not only got a facelift but three heated platform warming shelters, two new elevators [...]
Amid a crisis that has affected millions, even homes that would seem to be the safest of bets can face foreclosure. Linda Hatchell of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, for example, now faces the prospect of foreclosure on a home she purchased more than twenty years ago for just one dollar, NBC Chicago reports. The foreclosure case is [...]
YORKTOWN, Va. — A Chicago man who quickly accelerated in a sport utility vehicle with a cable around his neck decapitated himself after a domestic dispute in Yorktown, authorities said Tuesday. York-Poquoson Sheriff Danny Diggs said a deputy responding to a call of a domestic disturbance Tuesday was taking a statement from the man’s ex-wife [...]
A man in northern Illinois found a valuable surprise in his backyard Tuesday afternoon: A duffle bag filled with stacks of $20 bills. As Wayne Sabaj, a 49-year-old unemployed carpenter living in Johnsburg, explained to WGN, he had been looking for broccoli in his garden when he saw the duffle bag. After Sabaj showed the bag [...]
Some 200 United Methodist clergy of the church’s Northern Illinois Conference have pledged to bless same-sex unions in violation of the church’s policy on the matter, doing so despite the risk of suspension or defrocking. The Northern Illinois clergy’s declaration comes fast on the heels of a Wisconsin pastor, the Rev. Amy DeLong of Osceola, [...]
A bill eked its way to a victory by the narrowest possible margin in the Illinois Senate Wednesday, mandating that sex-ed teachers educate students on contraception as well as abstinence. House Bill 3027, which was rewritten in the Senate to be a bill about sex education, passed that chamber with 30 “yeas,” the lowest number [...]
The statistics on same-sex couples in Illinois from the latest decennial census were unveiled Thursday and the count reveals a marked increase in the number of individuals who report that they live with a same-sex partner statewide. Statewide, the 2010 census estimated that 32,469 gay and lesbian couples live in Illinois, which marks a 42 [...]
An Illinois judge has ruled that the state can terminate adoption and foster care services with Catholic Charities, saying the church-run agency has no “recognized legal right” to a state contract. Circuit Judge John Schmidt ruled Thursday (Aug. 18) that state officials can cancel contracts with Catholic Charities after church officials said they could not [...]
It looks like a massive publicity campaign, including a door-to-door outreach by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard, paid off. Attendance at the first day of Chicago’s early-starting schools was up to 88.1 percent this year, from 86.8 percent last year. That increase comes despite the addition of 52 new schools to the earlier [...]
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