Ellen Gill

Yesterday, the Lake County News-Sun chose to gush over Bob Dold as an environmentalist because he went up 40 feet in a bucket lift while touring Illinois Beach State Park and Spring Bluff Forest Preserve. They went on to report that he was there because he was on his...

The Republican party has clearly made the anti-women, anti-health care position a strategic initiative. In an election year, they're somehow unconcerned about alienating over one-half of the electorate. The lack of concern likely comes from two conclusions they have made. First, allegiance to other causes will causes some women to...

Bob Dold, Republican candidate for Congress, has spent a lot of time touting his Illinois Tenth District Roots.

On his website and in campaign ads, Dold has said he's a lifelong resident of the district. The problem with the latter is that the former is not true.

Bob...

Last night, I attended Tenth Dems University Meet the Candidates forum featuring Lt. Governor candidate Sheila Simon. I'd met Simon once before very briefly and had the impression that she was shy. However, last night I found her to be very warm and personable. That's No. 1.

No....

Recently, longtime Chicago television anchor Walter Jacobson called out the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times for attempting to create controversy and mixing editorial positions as news in the Illinois Senate Race.

Jacobson's...

Home values fell $2.4 trillion from December 2007 to December 2008 and around 1.7 million homeowners were on the verge of foreclosure in the fall. You'd never know that to hear Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk tell it. He's busy reveling in the health care reform bust while everyone...

On October 27, 2009, the Village Board of the Village of Northbrook approved an ordinance providing for the disposal of surplus police department duty weapons--seventy seventeen-year-old Beretta Centurion 92FS'. They decided to give them away to officers for unrestricted personal use. Under the ordinance, if an officer doesn't want...

Howard Dean came to Deerfield, Illinois on Halloween night to speak with the Illinois Tenth Congressional District Democrats or "Tenth Dems." Tenth Dems is a large volunteer organization that was started in 2003 in a Highland Park living room by seven people including former state representative Lauren Beth Gash. The...

Winnie, the Mad As Hell Doctors' 1986 Winnebago, rolled into Chicago this weekend for two events promoting single payer health care reform. The Mad As Hell Doctors are a group of physicians primarily from Oregon who are spending their September driving from Portland to Washington, D.C. They seek a meeting...

Illinois Tenth District Representative, Mark Kirk, held a health care town hall meeting on Monday August 24, 2009 to unveil his own plan for reform. This blog post debunks the centerpiece of Kirk's scheme, the creation of a national, private market for insurance plans by preempting state laws that regulate...

Ellen Beth Gill reported from Arlington Heights, Illinois as part of HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Town Hall Watch.

Representative Mark Kirk's (R-IL) August 24 health care town hall in Arlington Heights, Illinois may have been a little different than the gatherings most of us have...

Not that long ago, the symbol for the Lake County, Illinois Democrats was the man with the bag over his head. Really. It was even on the buttons. Although just north of Chicago, there were few Democrats in Lake County, and those who were Democrats rarely told their...