Former Chicago inspector general has no remorse after fine for leaking report on botched implosion • Who’s to blame for this year’s property tax bills? Finger-pointing and opportunism abound.
The Spin Monday, December 1, 2025 | | |
| | | | | Two months after four family members died in a helicopter crash, Darren Bailey is rebuilding his life and his campaign for the GOP nomination for Illinois governor. | | | | | The Chicago Board of Ethics fined former Inspector General Joe Ferguson $5,000 for sharing a report that blasted the city for an implosion that left Little Village coated in dust. | | | | | Within days, the metastasizing debate over who was responsible for the rising tax burden collided with deepening ideological rifts in Chicago and Cook County. | | | | | When Indiana Gov. Mike Braun arrives for a big-ticket fundraiser in Hammond, Mayor Tom McDermott Jr. will be jeering Braun on. | | | | | A few hours before gaveling in, the Indiana House released its proposed map that splits the current First District, held by U.S. Rep. Frank Mrvan, D-Highland, into two, by putting the majority of Porter County into the Second District, which is currently held by U.S. Rep. Rudy Yakym, R-Granger. | | | | | Over the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of Christians have left parts of the Middle East for good, driven by wars and the rise of Muslim extremists. | | | | | The Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer Alina Habba in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor were illegal and she is disqualified, a federal appeals court said Monday. | | | | | Diplomats face an uphill battle to reconcile Russian and Ukrainian “red lines” as a renewed U.S.-led push to end the war gathers steam. | | | |