Progress Illinois

It's not surprising that a lot more attention is
being paid to Amtrak lately. High fuel costs have dominated the
national political discourse all summer, and here in Illinois the
Governor and the General Assembly are engaged in trench warfare over
the fate of a $25 ...

The Republican strategy in the 11th District this election year has been largely focused on depicting cement magnate Marty Ozinga as a
blue-collar everyman. Indeed, Ozinga's own employees
have been repeatedly used in political ads, testifying to his worth as a
candidate. ...

A few weeks ago, Progress Illinois drew attention to 11th District GOP congressional candidate Marty Ozinga's misguided view
that there are "very few people nowadays that have no health service at
all." Ozinga's callous assessment of the U.S. health care crisis ...

This month in Chicago Magazine, Ben Goldberger asks
a question that many of us have wondered about perennial Republican
candidate Jim Oberweis: after so many losses and in the face of
unpopularity in his own party, what motivates the man to keep running?

Apparently ...

On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that
this year's "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico will be the second
largest to date. A dead zone is an area of the ocean that cannot
support marine life because rampant algae blooms suck all ...

Yesterday I wrote a post on
Dick Durbin's proposal to beef up Amtrak funding. With gas prices
frequently breaking record highs and air travel getting more expensive
and less convenient, Durbin is betting on a rail renaissance throughout
the country. Over at Crain's...

Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee approved the Great Lakes
Compact, an eight state agreement designed to protect water from the
lakes from being diverted outside the region. Lawmakers have been
trying to fast-track approval of the compact, which has bipartisan
...