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			<title><![CDATA[PASSINGS: Norma Zimmer, Dick Walsh, Robert F. Ellsworth, Robert Traylor, Burt Reinhardt]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-12 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Norma Zimmer

Singer was Welk 'Champagne Lady'

Norma Zimmer, 87, the "Champagne Lady" of television's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer, died Tuesday at her home in Brea. Her son, Larry, did not give the cause of death.

Zimmer performed on...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tribune analysis: Average raise in 2009-10 for CEOs of 18 nonprofits double that for private-industry workers]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/ct-met-non-profit-executive-pay-20120621,0,3787368.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-06-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[During the height of the recession, employees at one of the area's biggest nonprofits were not supposed to get pay raises greater than 6 percent &mdash; but that didn't apply to the CEO.

The board for the Community and Economic Development Association of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sales tax loophole leaves some cities, towns crying foul as firms exploit Illinois law]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-08-21 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dozens of companies doing business in the Chicago area are routing their sales through small outlying municipalities with low sales tax rates, siphoning tens of millions of dollars from city and suburban taxing districts.

These companies, ranging from...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Illinois lawmakers vote to cut own pay]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-06-22 13:49:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SPRINGFIELD &mdash; State lawmakers today voted to give themselves 12 unpaid days off during the next year and rejected 1.1 percent cost-of-living increases.

The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge, effectively would leave lawmakers'...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New congressional map on way to Quinn's desk]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-31 16:32:48</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[SPRINGFIELD &mdash; State lawmakers today voted to give themselves 12 unpaid days off during the next year and rejected 1.1 percent cost-of-living increases.

The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge, effectively would leave lawmakers'...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[High cost of 1-school districts]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-03-05 12:47:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Just 11 students make up the entire 7th grade in Lake County's Rondout School District 72, where the lone school has but 161 students.

The cost to taxpayers: $23,449 per child, the highest of all elementary districts in Illinois, the most recent data...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Noem's flood aid hypocrisy]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-22 01:30:35</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In March, Rep. Kristi Noem voted in lock-step with Republican leaders in Washington to completely eliminate the watershed and Flood Prevention and Operations program and to slash $800 million in FEMA funding to state and local governments. 

Last week,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrats release legislative redistricting maps]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-19 16:32:42</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In March, Rep. Kristi Noem voted in lock-step with Republican leaders in Washington to completely eliminate the watershed and Flood Prevention and Operations program and to slash $800 million in FEMA funding to state and local governments. 

Last week,...]]></description>
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