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...

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...