Progress Illinois

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood met with the Illinois
congressional delegation yesterday to talk about the state's stimulus
take. As we noted in the Early Bird, the big news is that contractor
bids are coming in lower than projected, meaning the state's federal money ...

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 &...

There was some great news out of Kane County yesterday. A judge
threw out significant portions of a defamation lawsuit against Planned
Parenthood of Illinois. The Tribune has the details:

Eric Scheidler and the Pro-Life Action League filed the
lawsuit in Circuit ...

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 ...