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Orville Hodge (R) was the Auditor of Public Accounts (predecessor office to the Illinois Comptroller) from 1952 to 1956. [34] During his term in office, he embezzled $6.15 million of [ citation needed ] state funds, mainly by altering and forging checks that were paid on the state's account. [ 35 ]
In Illinois, ballot initiatives can be included on the ballot. In Illinois, in order to be included on the ballot, an initiative must receive signatures of support equal in number to 8% of the turnout for the previous gubernatorial election. For the 2022 election, this meant that ballot initiatives required 363,813 signatures. [14]
The Illinois pension crisis refers to the rising gap between the pension benefits owed to eligible state employees and the amount of funding set aside by the state to make these future pension payments. As of 2020, the size of Illinois' pension obligation is $237B, but the state's pension funds have only $96B available for payouts to retirees. [1]
Jesse Clark White (born June 23, 1934) is an American educator, politician and former athlete from the State of Illinois.A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 37th Secretary of State of Illinois from 1999 to 2023.
Michael J. Bakalis (born March 23, 1938) [1] is an American academic and politician. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Illinois in 1978, losing to incumbent Republican Governor James R. Thompson.
In 1976, Collins became the first African-American woman elected to the Illinois Senate, where she rose to leadership positions. In 1994, she was the Democratic Party candidate for comptroller of Illinois. Collins left the Illinois Senate to run for the Cook County Board of Commissioners in the 1998 election.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, [5] in Chicago, Illinois, is the fourth-largest [6] school district in the United States, after New York, Los Angeles, and Miami-Dade County.
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