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With one week remaining in the General Assembly’s regular session, Gov. @BruceRauner has abandoned his radical non-budget policy demands that held the previous years’ budget hostage. #twill https://t.co/JdWtMukfzc

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Former first lady Michelle Obama revealed the cover of her upcoming memoir, “Becoming” on social media today. https://t.co/DaW2Y2a7zj

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Dem gov hopeful J.B. Pritzker proposed three debates with Gov. @BruceRauner, including one in Quincy, amid criticism of the response by Rauner’s response to outbreaks of the disease at the Illinois Veterans’ Home there. #twill https://t.co/iBfHtUMoVg

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Governor @BruceRauner violated an anti-patronage law with improper hiring, according to a new report by the Office of the Executive Inspector General. https://t.co/cS3yPIGtFy

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Manufacturing is a bright spot in the Rockford region’s improving economic picture, even though manufacturers employ far fewer people than they did decades ago. https://t.co/MPVEUGdNJ6

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Twenty-two school superintendents have filed a lawsuit against Governor @BruceRauner seeking more than $7 billion in funding for school districts. https://t.co/Da63ECzCk4

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A state audit has found that Gov. @BruceRauner’s administration violated state law by awarding property leases to unqualified vendors and possibly shutting out other bidders. #twill https://t.co/KRGEd1QdZi

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The lingering effects of Gov. bruising GOP primary campaign in which Gov. @BruceRauner narrowly defeated State Rep. Jeanne Ives are now making waves in the election of the state’s new GOP Party Chair. #twill https://t.co/1xd7phFa3d

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At least 15 trains were held up at Ogilvie Transportation Center for about two hours Wednesday while police investigated two pieces of unattended luggage on the second level, officials said. https://t.co/pm02lc66Gb

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Former GOP Gov. Jim Edgar suggested @BruceRauner wouldn't hold up this year's budget, noting the "profiles in courage" and refusal of rank and file #GOP lawmakers to go along with Rauner’s demands. #twill https://t.co/bTdIwrk4ce

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For the fourth year in a row, the nonpartisan budget watchdog @CivicFederation has panned Governor @BruceRauner’s proposed budget. https://t.co/eRZLlHpAXT

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Gov. @BruceRauner’s administration formally rebuked itself (yes, you read that right) for how it told staffers about the fatal Legionnaires’ disease outbreak after workers at an IL Veterans Home got sick in 2015. https://t.co/ZfQi6zCn83

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A shortage of EpiPens is alarming patients in #Illinois and across the country. https://t.co/9P0pVfvFny

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Conservative Party candidate for governor and current Republican Senator Sam McCann filed a lawsuit alleging @BruceRauner's legislative leaders are retaliating for his candidacy. #twill https://t.co/xkZoixnFav

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The #Illinois Senate voted 46-7 to require Governor @BruceRauner to stop hiding staff salary costs in the budgets of other agencies, rather than his own, a policy known as “offshoring. #twill https://t.co/EVd044HngX

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Gov. @Bruce Rauner announced his Veterans’ Affairs director is stepping down from her position, amid criticism from the public, media, and legislators of Rauner’s response to outbreaks of Legionnaire's disease in at the IL Veterans’ Home. #twill https://t.co/EWIixGW5C1

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Illinoisans are still waiting for the “hundreds, if not thousands” of jobs that Gov. @Bruce Rauner promised were coming to the state after he took a trip to Asia last September. #twill https://t.co/QxYd7xpdHe

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A shocking new report shows that since Governor @BruceRauner’s election, #Illinois has paid $1.14 billion in bill late-payment fees - more than in the previous 18 years combined. #twill https://t.co/lumV7jZEu8

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Ten years after the state banned smoking in public places, #Illinois is one step closer to raising the age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21. https://t.co/XITs5Q28bU

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The latest political prognosticator has rated Governor @BruceRauner the country’s most vulnerable governor, a common distinction for the governor lately. #twill https://t.co/JDERORkZnc