After the news surfaced yesterday that federal regulators were stepping up their oversight of his family's bank, Alexi Giannoulias is facing strong criticism from his rivals in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, Cheryle Jackson and David Hoffman.
With two months to go, the race for Cook County Circuit Clerk is an odd mix of wonky discussion on how to run a judicial bureaucracy -- and hyberbolic charges and counter-charges by 12-year incumbent Dorothy Brown and challenger Rick Munoz, who has been Chicago's 22nd Ward alderman since 1993. 