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Candidates Lining Up For Lieutenant Governor: Why?

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 09.19.2009 | Chicago


Blame it on Pat Quinn: the job formerly known as Lieutenant Governor of Bored Out-of-My-Mindistan is suddenly drawing interest from a wide-range of po...

What Happened To The Independent Aldermen?

NBC Chicago | Steve Rhodes | Posted 09.14.2009 | Chicago


t seemed like the City Council might be growing a pair in the wake of Mayor Daley's parking meter mess and his exposed Olympic financial guarantees. ...

Leave Fitzgerald Alone

Marcel Pacatte | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago


Marcel Pacatte

If Illinoisans want to put a stop to the culture of corruption, as they claim in poll after poll that they do, then they have to do something about it. It's not all up to Patrick Fitzgerald.

Jesse Jackson Jr. Campaign Paid Over $200,000 To His Wife

Bloomberg | Timothy J. Burger | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago


Representative Jesse Jackson Jr.'s congressional campaign organization has paid his wife at least $247,500 since 2001, including at least $95,000 afte...

Aldermen Riled Up Over City Garbage Cuts, Daley's Budget

Chicago Tribune | Dan Mihalopoulos | Posted 12.01.2008 | Chicago


City Council griping about Chicago's financial woes reached its loudest volume Thursday as Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Michael Picardi testifi...

Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Tears In Denver Show Strength

Ray Hanania | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago


Ray Hanania

Most people probably believe Obama's nomination as the nation's first African American with a serious chance of becoming president is the most important thing to come out of the convention. I think the real achievement was made by Congressman Jackson.