WASHINGTON--Democrats are stepping up their attacks on Senate hopeful Rep. Mark Kirk, the front-running Republican, with Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from a neighboring Illinois district on Monday planning to lambast Kirk for his flip flop on earmarks.
As part of the coordinated strategy, the Demoratic Senatorial Campaign [...]
WASHINGTON - Congressman Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) issued the following statement tonight after President Barack Obama detailed his new strategy for winning the war in Afghanistan:
"I applaud the President for supporting a troop increase that will help us win the war in Afghanistan. Hopefully this will heal some of the divisions" [...]
Unless Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick gets bizarre marching orders from above, today’s 45-38 loss to Stanford will serve as Charlie Weiss’ swan song. In a game full of spectacular offensive drives, Notre Dame’s defense collapsed time and time again to finally surrender the lead to Stanford’s resilient Hiesman-hopeful, [...]
Though Republican gubernatorial hopeful Andy McKenna deserves to be fish slapped for his latest TV commercial in which he implies the Tribune used words to criticize Democratic Governor Pat Quinn that the Tribune never used, it strikes me as smart of him to bypass his primary challengers [...]
WASHINGTON--Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, fresh from winning governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, hits Chicago on Friday for meetings in the Loop with Illinois GOP leadership to map strategy on Illinois contests for governor and Senate and House seats.
Steele will huddle with state Rep. Beth Coulson (R-Glenview), [...]
