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  Illinois powerful public school lobby kills measure to rein in borrowing

  By LGIS News Service | Friday, Apr 27, 2018 @ 4:41pm

  Illinois' powerful public school lobbying groups mobilized to beat back a measure that would have reined in massive school district borrowing, often concealed from taxpayers.

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  Court weighs if IL home rule powers allowing stricter employer rules also can extend to local right-to-work

  By John Breslin | Tuesday, Apr 24, 2018 @ 11:52pm

  A federal appeals panel is mulling over the thorny issue of whether Illinois "home rule" municipalities, already empowered to impose a host of labor and employment-related regulations on businesses, should also be allowed to buck the state government and create local right-to-work zones within their boundaries.

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