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PI Original
by Adam Doster
8:14am
Thu Mar 12, 2009
1 comment

Electoral Problems Remain

Lake Co.

Throughout the fall,
Republicans claimed that nation’s election process was being
compromised by coordinated, large-scale voter registration fraud
campaigns. In Lake County, Illinois, the story of Princess the Goldfish
prompted Republican County Clerk Willard ...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
12:11pm
Mon Dec 15, 2008

Red Curran

Lake Co.

Back in September, when we wrote about Lake Co. Sheriff Mark Curran's escalating deportation efforts, a commenter left this note:

Curran somewhere along the line became a republican. No one is going to support him for re-election.

"Somewhere along the ...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
4:04pm
Thu Nov 13, 2008

IL Foreclosure Notices Keep Rolling In

Dupage Co.

More bad news emerged on the Illinois foreclosure front today. The number of homeowners slapped with bank repossessions, foreclosure, default or auction sale notices came to 12,681 in October -- a 24 percent increase from September and a 31 percent increase over the same ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
9:06am
Fri Nov 7, 2008
2 comments

Obama Dominates The Collar Counties

Kane Co.

As Josh noted yesterday,
the most dramatic change in the Illinois presidential map between 2004 and 2008 is the blue-ing of the collar counties. Solid Bush terrain
four years ago, every single county swung for Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Here's a data comparison (click &...

PI Original
by Josh Kalven
11:02am
Tue Nov 4, 2008

Lake Co. Registration Suit Hits Dead End

Lake Co.

Illinois Republicans' questionable effort to segregate 5,000 ballots in north suburban Lake County hit a wall yesterday.  A federal court remanded the case back to the county late last week and a circuit court judge then declined to take it up before Election Day:

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PI Original
by Adam Doster
12:34pm
Fri Oct 31, 2008

The GOP's Provisional Ballot Gambit

Election Reform

By filing a lawsuit
alleging systemic voter registration fraud, Republicans in north suburban Lake County are hoping to exclude thousands of new voters
from the Election Day count. The GOP is asking
the circuit court to isolate 5,000 allegedly
"compromised&quot...

PI Original
by Angela Caputo
4:15pm
Fri Sep 19, 2008
1 comment

Lake County Crackdown Leaves Immigrants On Edge

Immigration

Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran has sent a shock wave through an
already fearful immigrant community by announcing that he intends to step up
measures to have undocumented people deported. By releasing the
outcomes of internal audit of the county's prison population - ...

PI Original
by Adam Doster
10:15am
Thu Mar 20, 2008
4 comments

Blue-ing The Collar Counties

Will Co.

Amy Tauchman had no special affinity for DuPage County. In some ways, she just ended up there. It was the late 1980s and she and her husband were looking for some more space for their budding family. They considered moving to Evanston, a town whose residents largely aligned ...