On June 17, 2016, Christie C. and Joseph A. Ascione purchased a four bedroom, three bathroom home at 1129 Elmwood Ave., Wilmette from Phyllis S. Balmes (trustee), John P. Balmes (trustee) and Phyllis Balmes (trust) for $905,000.
With hotel space for the presidential Inauguration ceremony in Washington filling rapidly, the Illinois GOP is offering a special opportunity for guaranteed overnight accommodations and inauguration tickets at the official Illinois Republican Party hotel in Arlington, Virginia.
Chris Kennedy may have the family name, but according to the state GOP, “he doesn’t act like it,” as he recently rejected reporters’ overtures in Chicago and simultaneously created a commotion in a downtown office building.
New concerns regarding potential gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker have surfaced following the exposure of cash contributions made from Pritzker-associated groups to Illinois House Democrats prior to November elections in amounts possibly as high as $200,000.
The Chicago Tribune’s editorial board has publicly called for the ousting of longtime House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago), predicting that if he is not unseated, the state faces two more years of “dysfunction.”
On June 17, 2016, Laura Mantel and Jed R Gremmler purchased a four bedroom, 2.5 bathroom home at 1303 W. Cedar Lane, Arlington Heights from Mary Kay Zurawski (trustee) and Mary Kay Zurawski (trust) for $331,000.