Rich Miller
Crain's Chicago Business
Illinois, United States
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Past articles by Rich:
What's Ken Griffin's endgame in his push against Pritzker's ‘fair tax'?
Always look at self-interest when money is involved. → Read More
Will the GOP's Madigan attacks ever stick?
Despite all his troubles, the House speaker is likely to pick up seats in November. Here's why. → Read More
Amid the clamor for reopening, a wary voice for workers
This state rep has been putting public and private pressure on manufacturers to literally clean up their acts. → Read More
Inside the push for Pritzker's ‘fair tax'
"I don't agree that this crisis means we should keep the state's unfair tax system." → Read More
Illinois has a new 'cannabis czar'
State Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Olympia Fields, is resigning to oversee implementation of the new cannabis legalization law. → Read More
Who's less popular than Madigan and Trump in Illinois?
The answer: pharmaceutical companies. Drug pricing has become a bipartisan issue, and that's why a new package of legislation taking aim at the issue is picking up steam in Springfield. → Read More
The Illinois GOP's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
A campaign slate populated by a Nazi, a couple of conspiracy theorists and an accused harasser is just the beginning of the party's headaches. → Read More
Rauner is now a creature of the swamp he rails against
The governor promised to be something different—a guy who would "shake up Springfield" and oppose the politics-as-usual tactics of his archnemesis, House Speaker Michael Madigan. Four years can sure change a person. → Read More
Rauner's Janus v. AFSCME victory may ring hollow in Illinois
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Gubernatorial debates don't move the needle like ads do
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Unionizing campaign workers? These pols say yes
Maybe it's just time to start treating people better. Campaigns don't necessarily need a unionized workforce to do that. But if that's what some folks want, go for it. → Read More
Sexual harassment in Springfield has only one solution
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Is Dem primary over? No, but Pritzker rivals need to pick up pace
With 36 percent of Illinois Democrats currently undecided, somebody could still make this a race—but that somebody needs to run a better campaign than they are now. → Read More
Money will determine JB Pritzker-Chris Kennedy race
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will not seek re-election
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The Rauner economy? Impasse almost surely took toll on Illinois jobs
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Bruce Rauner runs down the state he hopes to promote overseas
As Rauner heads to Asia soon to tout Illinois, we have to hope nobody over there does a Google search to see what he's had to say about life in our state. → Read More
Let Bruce be Bruce? With school funding at stake, Rauner's new staff in a spot
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How Rauner’s late-inning schools gambit opens the ultimate can of worms
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner is pivoting in the wrong direction
There are reasons a Republican governor facing re-election in a year that looks overwhelmingly unfavorable to his party would tack back to the center. Rauner's doing the opposite. → Read More