Last night, ABC 7's Ben Bradley reported that, according to unnamed sources, "Obama friend and confidante Valerie Jarrett is the president-elect's preference" as his U.S. Senate replacement. Watch it:
Of all the surprises to emerge from the 2008 electoral map, Barack Obama's victory in Indiana has to be the sweetest. And most impressive. Every single county in the state shifted towards the Democratic candidate on Tuesday (compared to 2004), leading him to a 26,000-vote ...
At his first press conference as president-elect today, Tribune reporter John McCormick asked whether Barack Obama planned to use his "pretty great influence" to determine his successor in the U.S. Senate. Obama made clear that this is "not his decision," ...
In analyzing how the Illinois GOP can regain relevancy before a panel in Peoria, popular former Republican governor Jim Edgar issued this advice yesterday: find candidates Latinos can support.
Earliest this week, I wrote about watching Barack Obama's victory speech in Grant Park and thinking back to my first memory of him: "by himself, yet to win a single election, browsing the shelves of a Chicago bookstore." The store in question was 57th Street ...
Referendums aimed at bringing more affordable housing to two
lakefront Chicago communities passed by wide
margins this week. In Uptown, 66 percent of voters in certain precincts* approved their measure, while 68 percent voted in favor of the Bronzeville version. So what's ...
Thanks to a poorly researched "suggestion" by the conservative Illinois Review blog that congressman and soon-to-be White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel doesn't pay property taxes on his home, this rumor is now circling the internet and apparently even came up on ...
Following his election to Congress in the 18th District, GOP State Rep. Aaron Schock hit the national stage yesterday with an appearance on MSNBC. At the top of the segment, anchor David Shuster asked him, "Are you ready for this?" Shock's response: "Ready or ...
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.
