Illinois

Congradulation to all the Illinois political candidates who won this election. While you are running this great country, keep a few facts in mind. The people of Illinois elected you The people of Illinois don’t trust you The people of Illinois won’t fear you or any of your policies You …

Hoping to sway voters in tight statewide races, political groups pump cash into Illinois An unprecedented influx of political cash — most of it from outside Illinois — is feeding an inescapable wave of television attack ads aimed at manipulating voters in the final weeks of high-stakes campaigns for U.S. …

October 27, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — The election is another day closer and there are more problems with Illinois’ new vote-by-mail system. Depending on who you talk to, the issue either has the potential to become Illinois’ version of the ballot fiasco they had in Florida in 2000 or it …

By Karen Ann Cullotta, Special to the Tribune October 15, 2010 Just days after his son Ryan’s suicide, Richard Kirchhoff decided that his personal heartbreak would not remain a private matter. “Most people don’t like to say the S-word, which is part of the problem,” said Kirchhoff, a McHenry County …

A day after the unveiling of a long-term regional plan for the Chicago area, Sen. Dick Durbin on Thursday announced a $4.25 million federal grant that will go to the agency that prepared the plan. The plan, known as Go to 2040, was crafted by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for …

October 14, 2010 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether military personnel overseas received Illinois absentee ballots in time for their votes to count. Ballots to military personnel and other Americans abroad were supposed to have been mailed by September 18. Now the U.S. Justice Department …

Illinois shut out of bucks by agency run by former CPS chief September 16, 2010BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com Mayor Daley on Wednesday blasted a federal education bureaucracy run by former Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan over the process that culminated in Illinois being shut out from …

What the experts say about the dietary guidelines report What the experts say about the dietary guidelines report Illinois’ adult population keeps growing fatter, with the state's obesity rate rising to 26.6 percent in 2009, nearly a full percentage point higher than the previous year. That figure places the state …

Posted June 21, 2010 4:15 PM The Swampby Christi Parsons The Obama administration will purchase the Thomson prison in rural western Illinois even if Congress doesn’t approve the president’s plan to lock up terror suspects there, a key official at the Justice Department said Monday. Lawmakers are threatening to scotch …

Saturday afternoon update: CHICAGO (AP) — About 48,600 homes and businesses in northern Illinois are still without power. ComEd says power has been restored to more than a quarter million customers in Chicago and surrounding areas, including McHenry County, but 48,600 were still without power as of 2:30 p.m. on …