Illinois State Representative Michael J. Madigan
Recent News About Illinois State Representative Michael J. Madigan
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lllinois redistricting described as being done at the 'Madigan level'
Dr. Jeffrey Leef sees House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) ruling Illinois with a gerrymandered hand.
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Lisa Madigan exit has some Chicagoans cheering, others saddened
Chicagoans offered a broad range of thoughts on social media recently after Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced she would not seek a fifth term.
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GOP sees Madigan at wheel of Pritzker bus tour
Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker needs to rethink the name of his recently launched "Think Big" bus tour across the state, the Illinois Republican Party suggested in a recent press release.
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Gubernatorial hopefuls should kiss ring on 'Madigan Day,' GOP contends
The Illinois Republican Party took a shot at Democratic candidates for governor on Democrat Day at the Illinois State Fair, suggesting in a release that the rival party should change the name of the day.
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Madigan accuses Rauner of putting 'right-wing agenda' above taxpayers
After a bipartisan meeting with legislative leaders on Sunday night, House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) described Gov. Bruce Rauner's demands for a property tax freeze another way the governor is pushing his agenda ahead of the real needs of Illinoisans.
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Madigan turns tables, calls Rauner the budget hostage-taker
House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) told a bipartisan group of General Assembly leaders on Sunday night that Gov. Bruce Rauner has kidnapped the Illinois budget-making process.
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Writer balks at Madigan's baseball expenditures
House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) has spent nearly $170,000 in campaign funds on baseball tickets, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, which Illinois Policy Institute staffer Joe Kaiser finds strange since Madigan has been less than a fair-weather fan of major league sports in the city.
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Obama connection to Chicago props up Illinois politics as usual, communications director says
For better or worse, Chicago informed former President Barack Obama at least as much as Obama informed Chicago, a communications director for a Chicago-area political group said during a radio broadcast.
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Pritzker added to GOP's list of Madigan backers
The Illinois Republican Party has added venture capitalist J.B. Pritzker to its BossMadigan.com website, which lists lawmakers and other stakeholders who support House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago).
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State GOP: Madigan’s democracy talk ‘doublespeak’ for dictatorship
Republicans say that, in Illinois, there exists a democracy of one — Mike Madigan, to be exact — with the longtime House speaker managing affairs as if the state were a dictatorship rather than a system of egalitarianism.
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'Tribune' analysis: Workers' comp reforms could spark budget breakthrough
The 'Chicago Tribune' editorial board recently said workers’ compensation in Illinois is the key issue that could bring compromise in a divided state government.
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Democrat Ford suggests he's open to term-limits legislation
In a public statement, state Rep. LaShawn Ford (D-Chicago) recently said term limits would be one way to help bridge the gap with GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner on his calls for reform and possibly help end the budget impasse -- a rare departure from the usual Democratic Party protocols in the General Assembly.
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Critics say 'House of Madigan' continues to play by own rules
Several Illinois legislators have responded to the House’s latest capitulation to longtime Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago), decrying the body’s utter lack of independence or apparent motivation to value representation of home jurisdictions over the speaker’s sway.
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Tribune: Illinois residents aren't frogs, won't remain in Madigan's boiling pot
Invoking an old wives’ tale referring to ambivalent, “average" amphibians, the Chicago Tribune recently created an analogy between disinterested Illinois taxpayers and a hypothetical pot of frog stew to illustrate the state’s simmering fiscal status.
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'Elevator speech' remains sore spot with Kennedy
Chris Kennedy does not appear to be a man who seeks the spotlight, as he coped with the GOP’s new digital ad linking him to House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) by eluding the topic — both on tape and afterward.
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State GOP says Kennedy not acting like a Kennedy after dust-up with reporters
Chris Kennedy may have the family name, but according to the state GOP, “he doesn’t act like it,” as he recently rejected reporters’ overtures in Chicago and simultaneously created a commotion in a downtown office building.
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Documents indicate Pritzker cloaked donations to Madigan
New concerns regarding potential gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker have surfaced following the exposure of cash contributions made from Pritzker-associated groups to Illinois House Democrats prior to November elections in amounts possibly as high as $200,000.
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Chicago Tribune calls for new speaker in Illinois House
The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board has publicly called for the ousting of longtime House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago), predicting that if he is not unseated, the state faces two more years of “dysfunction.”
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New House speaker tops Policy Institute writer's holiday wish list
This year’s holiday wish list for Illinois state lawmakers ought to include a new House speaker, an Illinois Policy Institute writer says, as constituents brace themselves for the speaker vote set for Jan. 11 in Springfield.
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Madigan Machine includes big-money players Kennedy, Pritzker
Emerging as big-money players in the perpetual Mike Madigan Machine are businessman Chris Kennedy, son of the late U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, and attorney, entrepreneur and philanthropist J.B. Pritzker, according to recently released financial data.