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Thursday marks 15 years since Barack Obama officially launched his first presidential campaign on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield.

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The governor’s top advisers say Pritzker’s new spending plan keeps the state on track to end in the black for back-to-back years for the first time in 25 years. But state House GOP Leader Jim Durkin said, "The governor’s budget address is always a wish-list, and this year it’s clear…

“I actually thought the Republicans in the Reagan and first Bush White House did some of the best climate policies ever,” the Democrat says.

State law requires the budget address to be given this year on the first Wednesday in February, and a spokesperson said Gov. J.B. Pritzker will do so. But because of potential hazardous winter travel, the Senate would convene at noon on Tuesday, but the remainder of the week’s House and…

Springfield Medical Centre is set to close

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