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 Gov. Pat Quinn addresses Illinois state lawmakers in Springfield during his state budget address today. (Lane Christiansen/Chicago Tribune)
Gov. Pat Quinn today called for a 33 percent increase in the state income tax rate to raise money for education and ease deep cuts he's proposed in his new budget plan.
In his short budget speech to the House and Senate, Quinn argued that an income tax "surcharge" would be enough to restore Illinois' education budget to current levels and allow the state to get caught up on some of the millions owed to public schools, community colleges and four-year universities.
Quinn wants to increase the personal income tax rate from 3 percent to 4 percent --- a 33 percent increase --- with the corporate tax rate rising from 4.8 percent to 5.8 percent. The tax hike would bring in $2.8 billion a y...
Mayor Richard Daley today threw his support behind state Rep. Art Turner for the Democratic lieutenant governor nomination vacated by troubled Chicago pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen. The mayor said it makes sense to add the veteran lawmaker to the statewide ticket as Gov. Pat Quinn's running mate because Turner came in second place in last month's Democratic primary election. "Well, like anything else, there's only one winner for the lieutenant governor's position, and that's Turner, Art Turner, he won second," Daley said while talking with reporters after the City Council meeting at City Hall. "If you run for public office and the person drops out before the election or even after the election, the person who was second moves automatically up. If you forfeit a game, you win the game." Read more on Clout Street.
 Source: Chicago Breaking News | Published: 10 Mar 2010, 2:24 pm
With Dawn of War II's standalone expansion Chaos Rising slated to hit North America / Europe tomorrow (it's already available in Australia/ New Zealand), developer Relic has rolled out a new update that adds new features to plain old Dawn of War II (PC).
Among the changes are five new units, nine new multiplayer maps, a new Free-For-All multiplayer game mode, and various other tweaks. As with all Dawn of War II updates, Steam (required to run the game) will automatically download the latest patch.
In addition, we've also got a per-region breakdown of when Chaos Rising will be available, along with a trailer that examines the expansion's new Last Stand heroes:
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A Wood Dale man was sentenced Wednesday to six months in the DuPage County Jail for selling morphine to a 16-year-old Roselle boy who ingested it and went into a coma. Christopher Grzeca, 20, of the 400 block of North Walnut Avenue,
pleaded guilty Wednesday to drug-induced infliction of great bodily
harm. Grzeca also was placed on two years of probation by Judge Daniel Guerin.
Grzeca obtained the morphine from a friend who had a family member with
cancer who had a prescription for the drug, said Assistant State's
Attorney Ken Tatarelis.
Paramedics were called to a Roselle home April 5, 2009, to assist the
boy, who was reported not breathing. The boy was transported to the
hospital where he remained in a coma for about two weeks and later
received rehabilitation treatment before recovering.
-- Art Barnum
 Police have named a suspect in sexual assaults on the Southwest Side in the last week.
Chauvet Stiggers, 23, is named in an arrest warrant in connection with sexual attacks that took place between March 4 and Sunday in the area between Maplewood Avenue and Pulaski Road, between 79th Street and 83rd Street, police said.
Stiggers, who uses the aliases of Rashaun Little, Andre Harris and DeAndre Harris, may be driving a green 1996 Chrysler Town & Country van with Illinois temporary plate 265L796, according to an alert issued this afternoon.
The attacks have been the subject of alerts from police in recent days, and area residents canvassed the Wrightwood neighborhood on Tuesday, handing out fliers. According to an alert issued Monday, the man sexually assaulted a...
 Kratos is tough enough to take on the gods, but is he man enough to face the assembled video game critics in the God of War III Frankenreview?
The fifth and final chapter in the God of War story arc, Kratos takes his never-ending quest for revenge all the way to the top, teaming up with the Titans to take down the father of the gods himself, Zeus. In his own signature style, Kratos tears the heavens apart in his quest, stopping only when the chance to have sex arises. Perhaps that's why gamers identify with him so easily.
But do the game critics identify with him? 
Telegraph.co.uk
It's an overused adjective, isn't it, ‘epic'? E...
A Mount Prospect school bus driver was nearly three times over the legal limit for alcohol after she dropped off about 50 children from an elementary school back to their homes Tuesday afternoon, police said today.  Betty Burden, 54, of the 1440 block of Park Drive, was arrested after police got a call from Vincente Ramirez, the transportation supervisor with Mount Prospect School District 57 around 3:45 p.m. Tuesday. She reported that
a co-worker had smelled alcohol on the driver's breath, Mount Prospect
police said in a press release.
The supervisor followed Burden as she dropped off children and called police when Burden's driving appeared erratic, said Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Mark Javier. Burden had been driving the children from Li...
A man given probation just two days ago for criminal damage to property died Tuesday night after plunging into the Chicago River while being chased by police for tagging a building.
Jason Kitchekeg, 26, of Mokena was one of three men being chased by officers for spray-painting a building on Ashland Avenue, police said. Kitchekeg, a longtime Uptown resident, was likely tagging an abandoned paint manufacturing plant there.
Cops caught two of the men, but Kitchekeg jumped into the river near the 2800 block of South Ashland, officials said. He died of drowning in an accident, an autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner's office found today.
Aided by a helicopter, the police Marine Unit and Fire Department personnel worked for about 30 minutes to rescue the man after...
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