Tag: Ram Villivalam

In final public transit hearing, downstate operators join chorus for more state funding

Many details still needed before lawmakers can put forward transit funding proposal SPRINGFIELD – Public transit agencies in downstate Illinois are joining Chicagoland rail and bus operators in asking the state for help balancing their budgets.  A state committee met with leaders from a half dozen downstate agencies on Tuesday – the sixth and final

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Longtime Harris supporters do victory lap for their candidate at DNC

CHICAGO – On a cold morning in late 2019, Illinois state Sen. Mattie Hunter, D-Chicago, boarded a bus bound for Iowa to knock doors for then-U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris in her bid for the presidency. At one particular door – one of many she visited in “mostly white middle-class communities” – Hunter met a couple