Tollway bond firm in spotlight
The New York financial firm picked to manage a $700 million Illinois tollway bond sale this spring hired one of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's oldest and most trusted political advisers as...
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Illinois targets 48 drug firms
Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan's office on Monday sued dozens of major drugmakers, accusing them of defrauding the state by overcharging government programs and Illinois Medicare customers out of hundreds...
Wage rises; debate continues
The $1-per-hour hike in the state minimum wage began to ripple through the economy Monday, with winners and losers concentrated among small businesses and workers at the bottom of the...
Governor targeting violent video games
One of the hottest video games this Christmas season features characters that indiscriminately maim each other and have sex with prostitutes. But if Gov. Rod Blagojevich has his way, Illinois...
After reaching heights, Obama lowers his sights
An exhausted Barack Obama, who worked overtime to fan the flames of celebrity in his Democratic U.S. Senate campaign, spent his first day as senator-elect Wednesday struggling to downplay his...
Keyes presses Catholic voters
Illinois' U.S. Senate candidates spent much of Halloween at churches Sunday, but Republican Alan Keyes was the one who openly mixed his faith with politics as he declared that any...
Hopefuls making last dash for votes
Some top Illinois Republican candidates turned to special intervention--both human and divine--to save their troubled campaigns in the final weekend before Tuesday's vote. Alan Keyes, the controversial GOP Senate candidate...
Senate debate gets personal
Battling a critical baseball playoff game as much as themselves, U.S. Senate candidates Barack Obama and Alan Keyes on Thursday attacked each other's notion of morality, Christianity and even the...
Obama, Keyes put on kid gloves
In a race marked by sideshows, U.S. Senate candidates Barack Obama and Alan Keyes faced off in their first debate Tuesday, a surprisingly cordial, policy-oriented discussion that ranged from the...
Obama’s record a plus, a minus
Barack Obama's critics often hammer the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate as being too far to the political left for most Illinois voters, using as evidence what they say...