Progress Illinois

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 ...

Back in May, Adam profiled several young progressive candidates running for public office around Illinois.  Among them was Tony Michelassi, a 23-year-old Democratic candidate for the GOP-dominated Dupage County Board:

After receiving
his Associates Degree in ...

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 &...

Under a barrage of legal appeals and lawsuits, Planned Parenthood of Illinois keeps standing strong. Just days after a judge threw out
significant portions of a defamation lawsuit against the women's health
care provider, the Aurora Building Code Board of Appeals dismissed
...

A great story from the Lisle Sun today. Recent college graduate Tony Michelassi was so frustrated by the lack of a Democratic candidate in the race for the 5th District seat on the Dupage County Board that he decided to run himself:

The 22-year-old had graduated ...

As our own Adam Doster explained in a recent feature article, Democrats have gradually been coming out of the woodwork in Dupage County this year to support Democratic congressional challengers like Bill Foster, Jill Morganthaler, and Scott Harper.

In accordance with ...

In my recent article on changing political dynamics in the collar counties, I highlighted a number of factors that are aiding Democrats at the ballot box, including demographic shifts, Republican missteps, and the transformation of the regional economy. But one factor I ...

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 ...