Danny Davis is late and no one can find him. "It's going straight to voice mail," his scheduler says as she hangs up the phone after her latest attemp...
Posted 03.26.2012
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday joined a growing chorus of influential Chicago Democrats speaking out against state Rep. Derrick Smith, who resoundingly ...
Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012
By Andrew Stern CHICAGO, March 20 (Reuters) - A Democratic state lawmaker from Chicago charged last week with accepting a bribe overw...
Posted 03.19.2012
A coalition of West Side Chicago Democrats rallied on Sunday behind state Rep. Derrick Smith, the lawmaker who was arrested last week on the federal c...
David Ormsby | Posted 05.02.2012
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been actively wading into Democratic legislative primary fights. And Emanuel did so again recently, throwing his support to Christian Mitchell. What will Rahm's support reel in that Mitchell lacks?
Matthew Hoh | Posted 04.07.2012
Over the last several months, at great risk to his career and personal life, LTC Davis has documented the deliberate misleading of the American people and Congress by the leaders of the Department of Defense. He has done his nation and the U.S. Army a tremendous service.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 01.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- Occupy DC protesters at Tuesday morning's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on their McPherson Square encampment a...
Posted 12.29.2011
On November 17, Develt Bradford, who was being held at Chicago's Area Two police station in connection with a shooting, allegedly hung himself with hi...
Dick Simpson | Posted 01.17.2012
With the Occupy Chicago movement so visible, understanding what young voters want is pressing. What are their issues and their agenda for change? And will they vote and determine the outcome of the 2012 elections?
The Huffington Post | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 01.07.2012
More than 1,000 senior citizens and their supporters marched from Chicago's Federal Plaza to the intersection of Jackson and Clark Street Monday morni...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has begun to assert veto control over how Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ...
Posted 11.22.2011
Story has been updated with additional comments from Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Three African-American congressmen from Illinois have expressed concer...
The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011
Once upon a time, Congressman Danny Davis was vying with ex-Senator Carol Moseley Braun to be named the "consensus black candidate" for mayor by a gro...
Posted 05.25.2011
A longtime opponent of Rep. Danny Davis says he was questioned by the FBI about a threat the Chicago congressman received via email. This past Sunday...
Posted 05.25.2011
Congressman Danny Davis reportedly received a threatening email following Saturday's shooting rampage in Arizona. U.S. Rep. Davis, a Democrat from C...
Chicago Sun-Times | eNews Park Forest | Posted 05.25.2011
In a political about-face, a coalition of black leaders has rejected its two earlier stated finalists and thrown its support behind U.S. Rep. Danny Da...
AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — Former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun has become the "consensus" black candidate in Chicago's mayoral race, a position that African-Ame...
AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 05.25.2011
CHICAGO — U.S. Rep. Danny Davis withdrew from the Chicago mayor's race Friday, leaving former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun as the only remainin...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Amid their posturing is anxiety that Mr. Clinton could deliver black votes to Mr. Emanuel. The campaign's first vivid manifestation of racial politics...
Chicago Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011
Congressman Danny Davis says that, at the behest of various black ministers, he and Carol Moseley Braun will meet again later today to discuss whether...
Austin Talks | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S Rep. Danny Davis might not be in the running to become the black consensus candidate for the upcoming mayoral race, but he's not pulling any punch...
Posted 05.25.2011
Soon after Mayor Richard M. Daley announced that he would not seek a seventh term, a group of African American leaders and clergy members gathered to ...
Rebecca Sive | Posted 05.25.2011
I never thought Rev. Meeks wanted to be Mayor, really. First, he dilly-dallied. Then, he claimed that the only way he could or would do it would be to remain as pastor of his church.
Jacqueline Edelberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Education reform will take leadership from the top, but ultimately it's our collective responsibility to wrap our arms around our schools, and make them the heart of our communities.
Daniel Sinker | Posted 05.25.2011
You're going to need a website. Many of you have them, but there are a few surprises in the pool that don't. Danny Davis and Roland Burris, I'm talking to you when I say the web is really important.
Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 05.02.2012