Judge Wallace B. Dunn has been a sitting judge for 24 years, while Mr. Mark Levitt, with no judicial experience, has been a public defender in Cook County for 20.
Why shouldn't Chicago and Illinois become the Midwest's centers of renewable energy technology and investment? Are any of the candidates pushing that objective?
Two years after Blagojevich, a confluence of Republican front groups think a Senate seat is still for sale. The $9 million they've poured into my race has funded a litany of debunked attack ads.
This is the latest in our series of community coal ash profiles. This piece was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Lydia Avila.The community of Joliet,...
A recent poll by The Hill indicates a 12-point lead of democratic candidate Dan Seals (IL-10) over the republican nominee, Robert Dold. Seals leads 4...
If you are a liberal or a progressive living in Chicago, you very likely have been to the Heartland Cafe. A veritable lefty oasis smack dab in the mi...
What do conservatives have against a program that put 240,000 people to work in the middle of an unemployment crisis?
Fox News / Pulse Opinion Research 9/25/10; 1,000 likely voters, 3% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Fox release) Illinois 2010 Senate 42% Kirk...
Over one hundred protesters from the Appalachian coalfields were arrested in front of the White House today, defiantly calling on the Obama administra...
When Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) dropped his press conference bomb on the political universe, announcing that he was stepping away from city hall ...
Rasmussen 9/21/10; 750 likely voters, 4% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) Illinois 2010 Senate 44% Kirk (R), 41% Giannoulia...
Coalfield residents are no longer afraid of Big Coal or their bankrolled politicians. They're fed up with shouldering the staggering human and environmental costs for our nation's dirty energy policy.
We Ask America 9/13/10; 1,379 likely voters, 2.6% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (We Ask America release) Illinois 2010 Senate 42% Brady (R),...
We Ask America 9/13/10; 1,379 likely voters, 2.6% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (We Ask America release) Illinois 2010 Senate 39% Kirk (R), ...
Pipelines don't take care of themselves. They carry diverse toxic material, under great pressure. They require care, close observation and proactive maintenance that sadly seems missing from the Enbridge tool kit
As some of you have picked up on, either from my Twitter updates, or the quick mentions in my comments sections of past stories, I met someone a few months ago, and I want to see where it could go.