Dem fundraiser in Chicago helps area congressional candidates

If Democrats don’t take six congressional seats back from Republicans in Illinois this year, it won’t be from lack of campaigning or fund-raising.U.S. Rep. Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was in Chicago recently raising money for Democrats trying …

Report triggers shakeup of DuPage election panel

County Board Chairman Dan Cronin is wasting no time in making changes at the DuPage Election Commission. Prompted by an assessment report presented Tuesday that found considerable fault with the commisson’s ethics and purchasing practices, Cronin the following day appointed Cathy Ficker Terrill of Elmhurst …

Town Talk: Life lessons from the campaign trail. Or not.

Sure, Dr. Bob Tiballi of Elgin lost the GOP primary race for Kane County coroner to DuPage County Sheriff’s Deputy Rob Russell.

Most of us only have to worry about what a coroner says if and when someone we know dies under mysterious or dubious …

Dems Duckworth, Foster, Dold join forces on Medicare issue

Three Democratic candidates for Congress from the Chicago suburbs held a joint news conference Thursday to denounce a Congressional Republican budget plan they claimed would “end Medicare as we know it.” “This is a clear moment where all three of our opponents have to stand …

Electricity issue generates mixed results across Valley

Local governments’ hunt for cheaper electricity didn’t sell well in all Fox Valley towns Tuesday. The towns had referendums asking voters to allow them to negotiate with electricity suppliers to serve residential and small commercial retail customers. Among them, Elgin’s voters approved the referendum by …

National Dems: ‘Road to majority’ in Congress ‘goes through Illinois’

Washington Democrats are hoping Illinois voters will help swing the balance of power in Congress. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Wednesday that it is putting five Illinois congressional seats in it’s top-level “Red-to-Blue” list of seats it hopes to pick up in November.

Duckworth wins Dem primary for 8th District

In the battle of backstories that was the 8th Congressional District Democratic primary, Tammy Duckworth defeated Raja Krishnamoorthi. With 423 of 430 precincts reporting, Duckworth led 16,766 to 8.417. At a rally held at the Holiday Inn in Elk Grove Village, Duckworth told her supporters, …

Voters wary over electricity deals

In a rare occurrence, almost every city and village in northern Kane County had an identically worded referendum on its ballot Tuesday. And even more unusually, these referendums called not for a tax increase but for a chance to save homeowners some money, by promising …

Noland, McConnaughay, Oberweis in lead for Senate

WEST DUNDEE — A cheer went up from the table as the first numbers from Kane County numbers began popping up at about 9 p.m. on back-to-back computer screens set up on a table upstairs at Emmett’s in West Dundee. “Obviously, supporters are always great …

Romney confident, Illinois voters divided as GOP primary nears

Looking ahead to the Illinois primary and beyond, an increasingly confident Mitt Romney conceded on Monday that the economy is on the upswing but argued that President Barack Obama’s policies slowed the recovery.

Sears, casino among issues splitting 22nd Dist. hopefuls

ELGIN — A few minutes of debate during a candidate forum at Elgin School District U46 this week likely was the only chance area residents had to see state senator candidates Michael Noland and Tim Elenz go toe-to-toe. The Democrats vying to lead the 22nd …

Hastert making the rounds for Romney

SUGAR GROVE — Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and State Treasurer Dan Rutherford kicked off a string of Mitt Romney endorsement events throughout Illinois Wednesday with a morning stop at the Aurora Municipal Airport in Sugar Grove.

The duo met with several area delegates, …

Gingrich speaks at Judson in Fox Valley visit

ELGIN — Speaking Thursday morning to a capacity crowd of some 600 people in the Herrick Chapel at Judson University, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich called for an end to discrimination against Christians, a nationwide effort to cure brain diseases, an intense search for oil …

Cunningham not a candidate, court rules

After being on the ballot twice and off the ballot once, the appellate court has finally ruled that votes for Jack Cunningham will not be counted in the 11th Congressional District Republican primary on March 20.

The Illinois State Board of Elections sent a recommendation …

State Board of Elections: Cunningham votes shouldn’t count in 11th Dist. race

With less than a week until Election Day, the Illinois State Board of Elections has once again put Jack Cunningham’s place in the 11th Congressional District Republican primary in jeopardy.

The board determined this week that there were problems with how some signatures on Cunningham’s …