
Olivia Olander
State Government Reporter at Chicago Tribune
State government reporter @chicagotribune, used to cover labor @politico
Articles
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19 hours ago |
chicagotribune.com | Olivia Olander
Longtime U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky will announce whether she plans to seek reelection at an event in early May, she wrote Wednesday in a social media post that indicated she hasn’t yet made up her mind. “I will make that decision in the coming weeks and announce on May 5,” Schakowsky wrote in a post on the social media platform X that went up shortly after Politico, citing unnamed sources, reported Schakowsky, 80, planned to announce her retirement after 14 terms in the House. U.S. Sen.
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2 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Olivia Olander |Jason Meisner
State Rep. Thaddeus Jones, who’s also mayor of Calumet City, paid tens of thousands of dollars in the first quarter of this year to a law firm that specializes in criminal defense, records show, amid a multiyear federal investigation into tax issues involving his campaign funds that sources said is ongoing.
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2 days ago |
yahoo.com | Olivia Olander |Jason Meisner
State Rep. Thaddeus Jones, who’s also mayor of Calumet City, paid tens of thousands of dollars in the first quarter of this year to a law firm that specializes in criminal defense, records show, amid a multiyear federal investigation into tax issues involving his campaign funds that sources said is ongoing.
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3 days ago |
chicagotribune.com | Olivia Olander
Afternoon egg hunts and the Cubs game Sunday were interrupted by a bout of heavy rain across the Chicago area, expected to ease up in the late afternoon before more stormy weather overnight. The worst of the Easter rain was expected to dry by about 3:30 p.m., National Weather Service meteorologist Ricky Castro said. Showers were expected around 8 p.m. with stormy conditions including wind gusts and possible lightning likely around midnight.
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4 days ago |
thebrunswicknews.com | Olivia Olander
By Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune CHICAGO - In more than two decades as a juvenile probation officer in downstate Clinton County, Carla Stalnaker said barely a handful of children younger than 12 have found themselves in her office. And only a small number of those were put in a detention center. But the juvenile justice veteran thinks it's time to phase out that option.
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