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Jim Dey
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Jim Dey is a staff writer for The News-Gazette. His email is jdey@news-gazette.com.
The family that runs for public office together stays together.
Readers have no doubt heard — and complained — about municipalities that adopted traffic-citation quota systems for their police officers that…
Politics is a numbers game, and if there’s one thing veteran political power broker Michael Madigan has learned over the years, it’s how to count.
Last week’s federal indictment linking, among others, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s best buddy, Michael McClain, to the longstandin…
A couple years ago, the Comedy Central cartoon show “South Park” ran a spoof on a vast community feud that exploded into litigation that left …
State court litigation challenging Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s exercise of his emergency powers has followed an unmistakably disturbing pattern.
The Supremes are getting a makeover, the residue of both design and an unprecedented insurrection.
If the future of Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan really is open to question after the Nov. 3 election, there’s a huge fight ahead.
Elections, as contentious they often are, proved to be a nice diversion from the day-to-day drudgery of state government in Illinois. Amid all…
After difficult election day, Speaker's own party is distancing itself from him.