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Two-thirds of species endangered by wildlife trade wait close to or more than two decades to be protected.

America’s suburbs have been competitive battlegrounds in recent elections. But a new UChicago Harris/AP-NORC Poll finds that, contrary to popular perceptions of suburbanites as swing voters, there are actually fewer true independents in the suburbs.

On March 13, the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago (IOP), in partnership with the university’s Crime Lab and Harris School of Public Policy, will hold a mayoral candidate’s forum devoted to the crucial issue of crime and violence. 

Suburbanites who have lived in a city are likely to affiliate themselves with the Democratic Party; suburbanites who come from a rural background are likely to call themselves Republicans.

Illinois faces massive budget challenges and a pension system that is crowding out other state services.

One idea that surfaces time and again is to provide funds to individuals, without condition, without means testing, and without work requirements or any other stipulations, to help cover basic life needs.

Governor J.B. Pritzker is working with business experts to lower Illinois's pension debts, a necessary step to protect retirement benefits; these benefits cannot legally be cut, so the state must raise more revenue.

The percentage of Independent voters out of the total electorate is significantly lower in suburban neighborhoods than it is in rural or urban settings. However, inhabitants of suburban areas increasingly vote for the Democratic Party.