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list of store closures made public monday after illinois governor pat quinn ceo of sears state gave sears hundred $50 million in tax breaks two weeks ago state rep call kevin mccarthy like it quits and immediately democratic lawmaker southwest suburban orland park made the announcement in a letter this week kevin mccarthy did not explain the abrupt departure 61 years old serve the district for 15 years democratic committeeman will pick a successor to serve the remainder of his two-year term which ends in 2013 >> click it or ticket even in the back seat new state laws going into affect in the year 2012 and michael jordan posing long-term girlfriend mild temperatures sticking around might have to do this with rainfall or flakes forecast coming right up. wgn news @ 9 new year brings a new loss for illinois residents highlighting 200 loss into effect january 1st required to wear seat belts also tollway rates are going up 75¢-$1.90 per car whether or not you are a pass user finally people have order of protection firearm owners those convicted domestic battery can not get a card at all >> a ch

and not move to another state >> never happy to hear the company not doing well >> today governor pat quinn stood behind the deal he signed up old company dire financial issues before >> agreement maintained jobs in illinois headquarters repercussions before sears but we expect the headquarters to stay here and the jobs to be here that is what the agreement is all about the fact that they have to close stores around the country that is not good news but does not directly affect this agreement sears >> shares agreement fell more than 27% after the announcement >> not an economist but i knew going in this was a risky investment >> better government association state might be a difficult position company failed to revive itself >> new sears if they knew it was coming and failed to tell illinois officials that is dishonest did tell the state about to happen we provided a subsidy like that anyway our judgement has to be questioned >> sean lewis wgn news @ 9 >> outburst of violence at the mall of america next what prompted more than 10 brawls after christmas and is maria shriver having second tho

pat quinn same thing, press secretary. >> quinn has passed also has passed some child protective legislationor has seen it pass there. >> >> bill: not the big kahuna. >> once more it is about judge's discretion. >> bill: no excuse. 54 -- 44 states on board. six holdouts. colorado. this guy hickenlooper is a former mayor of denver. i know this guy. he couldn't care less about the kids. he couldn't care less about -- it's true. you know how many years we have been on this guy? he won't come on, won't issue a statement, won't do anything. he doesn't care about them. >> there are people who sincerely believe many of the laws designed in recent years because of the outrageous crimes. >> let him veto it. >> john kuehlly, a twice convicted child rapist lived next door. >> that's why we started it hickenlooper is so disrespectful. he really is. >> is he disrespectful clearly of us in the media but i think people have different ideas. >> bill: this guy, ladies and gentlemen, you should get on his case. idaho, butch oddard. this is another guy. how many times do we have to ask this guy to get in front

. >> hinojosa: jerry stermer is a top advisor to the democratic governor of illinois, pat quinn, a close obama ally. stermer says the administration had sold secure communities to illinois as a program targeting the worst of the worst. >> we're talking about murderers and rapists and arsonists and the most serious, and that was very clear. that's what we heard about, and that's what we understood was going on. >> hinojosa: but when the governor's office looked at ice's own statistics and discovered that less tha20% of those deported from illinois had been convicted of a serious crime, they concluded they'd been sold a bill of goods. >> we met on a number of occasions with the federal officials and said, "this isn't... this isn't going the way that you had described it and that we had understood. can we fix this?" and they said, "well, if we're looking for the most serious offenders and we want to deport them, there's going to be collateral damage." and we thought, "are we talking about collateral damage of a mother who had a broken taillight being separated, maybe forever, from her child

. >> reporter: in march, cat's ceo doug overhemmen sent this letter to pat quinn calling the state unfavorable governors to move caterpillar elsewhere. >> has its share of problems. no question. when other states in the u.s. don't have a corporate tax rate or lower, it makes it tougher to draw people here. >> reporter: deep in the red, illinois raised its corporate tax rate this year making it the fourth highest state tax for businesses. one caterpillar employee told me he's not confident that more plants, new plants, will be built here in illinois unless the environment changes? >> i think that's true. i think you know, given the competitiveness of states around the country, illinois's got to make fundamental changes to be competitive, and i think they will. >> reporter: but for now, cat's staying. and building more demand from abroad. >> 70% of our sales are non-u.s. >> reporter: from uruguay to australia to egypt, 82% of these d-11 tractors are experted outside of the united states for $2 million a pop. >> it's not a threat. it's an opportunity. buy that globalization, buy those sales overs