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Editorial Team: Isaiah Milbauer, Alex Shura, David Whyman, and Gianluca Yong
This Week's Bulletin:
​November 5-11, 2018
Election Highlights: Toni Preckwinkle won re-election to Cook County Board President, State Senator Kwame Raoul (D) won the election for Illinois Attorney General, Governor Bruce Rauner (R) lost his reelection to JB Pritzker (D), and US Representative Bobby Rush (D) won reelection to US representative (IL-1). Nationally, Democrats gained over 30 seats to retake the House, while Republicans appear poised to expand their majority in the Senate, pending recounts and a special election.


CHICAGO CITY GOVERNMENT
Alderman Leslie Hairston (5th Ward) ~ call your alderman! (773) 324-5555
  • [No News*]
Alderman Willie Cochran (20th Ward) ~ call your alderman! (773) 955-5610   
  • [No News*]
Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) ~ call your mayor! (312) 744-3300
  • Nov 5 – Racing to close deals on several large, TIF-funded economic development projects before his term ends
  • Nov 6 – Moved to challenge proposed immigration policy changes by the Trump administration regarding child immigrant detention
  • Nov 7 – Issued an executive order intended to prevent retailers from gaining city subsidies from opening locations in some parts of the city while closing locations in others
  • Nov 7 – Announced that securing funding for CTA improvements would be a top priority when Governor-elect Pritzker takes office

COOK COUNTY BOARD
President Toni Preckwinkle ~ call your Cook County board president! (312) 603-6400
  • Nov 5 – Fired security chief following a review of the events which led an SUV he frequently drove to be found abandoned and filled with illegally transported campaign materials
  • Nov 6 – Reelected as President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners


ILLINOIS STATE GOVERNMENT
Representative Barbara Flynn Currie (D–District 25) ~ call your state rep! (773)-667-0550
  • [No News*]
Senator Kwame Raoul (D–District 13) ~ call your state senator! (773) 363-1996
  • Nov 6  –  Elected to the office of Illinois state Attorney General
Governor Bruce Rauner (R–IL) ~ call your governor! (312)-814-2121
  • Nov 6 – Lost the governorship to Democratic nominee JB Pritzker

U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Representative Bobby Rush (D–IL1) ~ call your representative! (773) 779-2400
  • Nov 6 – Won re-election
  • Nov 8 – Plans to hold a rally in protest of Target closing a store in his district
Senator Tammy Duckworth (D–IL) ~ call your senator! (312) 886-3506
  • Nov 5 – Called on Illinois Public Health Director, Nirav Shah, to resign over the state’s deficient response to the Legionnaires outbreak in the Quincy Veterans Home
  • Nov 7 – Released a statement saying “Congress must protect the special counsel immediately” after Jeff Sessions resigned as Attorney General
Senator Richard Durbin (D–IL) ~ call your senator! (312) 353-4952
  • Nov 7 – Called for an investigation into the EPA’s decision to withhold information about cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions from plants in Lake County
President Donald Trump (R) ~ call your president! (202) 456-1414
  • Nov 7 – Fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, calling into question the fate of Robert Mueller’s election interference investigation
  • Nov 10 – Cancelled his appearance at a ceremony in France commemorating World War I due to bad weather—drawing criticism



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