Depending on whom you ask, the fate of a growing economy or continued partisan division is what’s at stake in the midterm election.

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BELLEVILLE

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Three weeks before Election Day, staffers who have worked for J.B. Pritzker’s campaign have filed a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in their months on the job, accusations the Democratic governor candidate quickly called “just not true.

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.

A new report has raised questions about $16 million in spending by local governments at a time when pension payments are eating up resources for other services at the local level.

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Eight people have been arrested and $50,000 and more than 17 pounds of meth have been seized by authorities in a drug bust that spanned the tristate area.

Here’s a link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.

EAST ST. LOUIS — At disparate parts of the district, candidates for Illinois’ 12th District got glowing endorsements to try to further mobilize their base in a tight race.

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Add Illinois to the list of states battling a polio-like condition.

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Billionaire Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker has portrayed himself as a champion of working families and received substantial support from organized labor, but he used nonunion workers to remodel his Gold Coast mansion

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.

MOUND CITY — Southern Illinois University Carbondale Chancellor Carlo Montemagno will be laid to rest with full military honors at Mound City National Cemetery in Mound City, Illinois, at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Here’s a link to the story at the Southern Illinoisan.

Sears Holdings Corp., parent of the Sears and Kmart retail chains, has filed for bankruptcy protection — a last-ditch effort to save an American icon that shaped shopping habits for more than a century

Here’s a link to the story at the Chicago Tribune.