Illinois, Indiana Officials Examine Death Penalty
Officials in both Illinois and Indiana are taking another look at the death penalty.
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Officials in both Illinois and Indiana are taking another look at the death penalty.
Gov. Pat Quinn wants Illinois school children to make holiday cards for wounded troops overseas.
Mayoral candidate Gery Chico is joining gay rights activists in contacting state lawmakers and urging them to pass a bill for civil unions.
After several years of furloughs, layoffs and decreased revenue, some of the hefty police payrolls are suddenly within reach of cities' budgeting shears.
A Preamble must mean coming before our learning to walk. This is an appropriate way to look at the Preamble to our United States Constitution.
The village president of Buffalo Grove has decided not to seek a fourth term in office, after making headlines when he put on a wig and mocked another village official earlier this month.
This is the last day on the job for Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Ron Huberman.
Some Chicago-related information was found in some of the documents recently leaked by Wikileaks. It involves the half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai and a Lakeview neighborhood restaurant.
Republican Mark Kirk is about to become Illinois' newest U.S. senator.
Mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun is criticizing rival candidate Gery Chico for a part of his resume he's most proud of.
Fifteen separate challenges have been filed against Rahm Emanuel's candidacy for mayor. Opponents claim he hasn't been a Chicago resident for a full-year before the February election, as required by law.
Mayoral Candidate Carol Moseley Braun is spending much of this major shopping day visiting with retail merchants in various parts of the city.
Thanksgiving is all about the bird. This season two birds are deserving of our attention.
Mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel is being hit with yet another residency challenge.
Of the 20 candidates who've filed their petitions to run for mayor of Chicago, several are quite well-known. The others, without the big names or big money, are banking on grassroots campaigns somehow catching fire.
