Is Your City A Sundown Town? This Interactive Map Will Tell You
A sundown town [...] is an entire community (or even county) that for decades was ‘all white’ on purpose," researchers write ...
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‘Dolton Dictator’ Mayor Tiffany Henyard throws extravagant, star-studded $85K town party — then pouts when colleagues pull plug on other events
Under-fire “Dictator” Mayor Tiffany Henyard is in hot water again after the Illinois township she leads hosted an $85,000 bash featuring a rapper and R&B artist before her colleagues pulled ...
Chicago’s Suburbs Turn Illinois Solidly Blue
A once proudly Republican state, Illinois is now solidly blue as Chicago’s “collar counties” move to the left.
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Illinois 'supermayor' reportedly throws $85k festival amid probe into lavish spending
Tiffany Henyard is currently under investigation for allegedly misusing public funds while serving as mayor of Dolton, Ill.
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Our culture of corruption
About half of the state’s 2,826 general municipal governments are townships — a 17th century form of government that initially dealt with land sales to farmers but has evolved in Illinois to ...