Feigenholtz Far Ahead In Emanuel Replacement Race Fundraising
Illinois State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D) is on a hot fundraising streak in the race to replace former Rep. Rahm Emanuel's (D-Ill.) seat, according to ...
Illinois State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz (D) is on a hot fundraising streak in the race to replace former Rep. Rahm Emanuel's (D-Ill.) seat, according to ...
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 03.17.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley racked up the first major newspaper endorsement of the campaign Saturday, earning the backing of the Sun-Times. ...
The Huffington Post | Ben Goldberger | Posted 03.17.2009 | Chicago
The Chicago Sun-Times became the first major paper to endorse a candidate in the crowded 5th Congressional District race, backing Cook County Commissi...
Chicago Sun-Times | Laura Washington | Posted 03.12.2009 | Chicago
The applause-o-meter wildly careened as the tuxedoed politicians strutted across the stage Saturday night at the annual Equality Illinois gala. Dawn C...
CQ Politics | Emma Dumain | Posted 03.05.2009 | Chicago
In what may be a glimpse of the campaigning to come, Feigenholtz -- who is backed by EMILY's List, the influential political action committee that sup...
Mike Quigley | Posted 03.01.2009 | Chicago
When the Cook County budget comes up for a vote in the coming week, we will be dealing, yet again, with a patchwork set of fixes, an ill-conceived borrowing scheme, and a lack of attention to the real problems.
Politico | Josh Kraushaar | Posted 02.28.2009 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley, running to succeed Rahm Emanuel in Congress, received a key endorsement from one of the leading reform-minded f...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 02.20.2009 | Chicago
Twenty-six candidates have registered to run for the congressional seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. The w...
Progress Illinois | Josh Kalven | Posted 02.20.2009 | Chicago
The day after filing concluded for the special election, we've got the first sign of things getting ugly in the Fifth Congressional District. Last ni...
Chicago Sun-Times | Laura Washington | Posted 02.19.2009 | Chicago
The Service Employees International Union is still puffed up over its prowess in the 2007 Chicago aldermanic elections, when the SEIU helped turn over...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 02.17.2009 | Chicago
If the first poll of the season is accurate, the solid if early front-runner is [Mike] Quigley, whose battles with county President Todd Stroger over ...
Progress Illinois | Josh Kalven | Posted 02.15.2009 | Chicago
Tom Geoghegan rolled out an online petition yesterday to "end the era of blank check bailouts." Specifically, it urges Congress to attach three common...
Chicago Sun-Times | Carol Marin | Posted 02.14.2009 | Chicago
Barack Obama's message of hope and change has been shouted down in Illinois by the horror of a craven governor, by the egotistical opportunism of our ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 02.06.2009 | Chicago
Mayor Daley announced his intention to stay neutral in the crowded Congressional race to succeed incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, the...
Ryan Blitstein | Posted 02.05.2009 | Chicago
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Crain's Chicago Business | Paul Merrion | Posted 01.30.2009 | Chicago
Uncertainty in the race to fill the seat of Rep. Rahm Emanuel has opened important fundraising and organizational advantages for two early candidates:...
Mike Quigley | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
Short of absolute dictatorships, my staff and I couldn't find an example of a more powerful veto anywhere in the world. Why does the president of the Cook County Board have this much power?
Chicago Tribune | Posted 01.18.2009 | Chicago
Out here in the real world, the temptation of easy debt has (a) let people foolishly live beyond their means and (b) stuck all of us federal taxpayers...
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 01.10.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Workers have approved a $1.75 million agreement, ending a sit-in that lasted six days at a Chicago window and door factory. U.S. Rep....
AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 01.09.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — The creditor of a Chicago plant where laid-off employees are conducting a sit-in to demand severance pay said Tuesday it would extend ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE A meeting to resolve the sit-in Monday night ended without success, but representatives from Bank of America, Republic and the union agreed t...
Chicago Sun-Times | Rummana Hussain | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago
Just minutes after Cook County Board President Todd Stroger boasted his $2.94 billion proposed budget for 2009 was free of additional taxes, several c...
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 12.25.2008 | Chicago
Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley said Sunday he plans to file papers today to start collecting campaign funds to run for the congressional seat ...
The Hill | Aaron Blake | Posted 12.07.2008 | Chicago
It didn't take long for Chicago Democrats to start jumping at the impending open seat in Rep. Rahm Emanuel's (D-Ill.) district. State Rep.-elect Debo...
Chicago Sun-Times | Mark J. Konkol | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago
A band of Cook County Commissioners plan to introduce a proposal to create a so-called "circuit-breaker" fund that would give relief to low-income hom...
The Hill | Jeremy P. Jacobs | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago