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We make 71. Yesterday we were at 69. Our highs are going to be near 70 and a stray shower is possible. The potential for showers is higher tonight. Right now 48 degrees. Don and juliet its 43 degrees. 49 in morris. A wide range of temperatures across the region. Satellite composite shows cloud cover coming a doorway. It will keep us from cooling down too much rain to the south and west. The warm front will arrive tomorrow morning. We have the chance of showers and again tonight. 55 degrees by noon. 90 and 20 percent chance of rain. Three days forecast we have High Temperature of 80 degrees or ...

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez’s bid for reelection is being helped by political contributions from dozens of her government employees, many of whom donated within months of receiving raises from Martinez in their publicly funded jobs. The first-term clerk won the office in 2020 after pledging to “adhere to the highest ethical standards” in replacing a scandal-scarred outgoing ...

In 1969, attorney Michael Shakman, then 27, went to court to tear down Chicago’s patronage system, a bulwark of Democratic machine politics that long poisoned city and state governance. The result was a series of court-ordered reforms known as the Shakman decrees that banned political considerations in hiring and firing in Chicago, Cook County and Illinois government. More than five decades ...

Lawyer Michael Shakman sued 54 years ago to end the practice of political patronage in hiring by government agencies in Illinois.

In a historic decision, a federal judge Thursday ended the half-century-old anti-patronage case launched to fight the stubborn and unfair use of politics to decide most hiring, firing, and promotion in state and local government. Judge Edmond Chang’s move came as he granted the request of Democratic Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough to eliminate federal oversight of her office even though ...