As of deadline for Monday’s Chicago Sun-Times political reporter Lynn Sweet had discovered the following television expenditures in the race between Congressman Peter Roskam and his Democratic Party challenger Sean Caster: $7.6 million for Casten $6.5 million for Roskam The … Continue reading
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Two years ago Nancy Zettler ran for State Representative against Republican Allen Skillicorn and lost. This year she thought she was running against State Senator Karen McConnaughay, but McConnaughay resigned to take a post in the private sector. Then Republican … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times has endorsed Tom Geroges over Republican incumbent Dan McConchie for the State Senate. Here is the endorsement: Tom Georges in the 26th District Tom Georges of Mundelein spent 31 years in the Army, achieving the rank of colonel. … Continue reading
A commenter wondered if I was going to point out that the Chicago Sun-Times had endorsed Democrat Lauren Underwood. That comment was my first indication of the endorsement. Here is what I read when I got around to reading Monday’s … Continue reading
The Daily Herald featured a chorus of boos from supporters of Congressman Randy Hultgren’s opponent when he asked the question, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” I was talking crowd photos at the moment and … Continue reading
It has entitled its series of suggestions “31 Bullets” for the number of bullets sold per person in the country each year. (I do wonder if that includes the number bought by agencies having no need whatsoever to stockpile bullets. … Continue reading
Tuesday’s front page of the Chicago Sun-Times is so innovative, I think it should be shared: … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times probably doesn’t have much circulation in State Representative Steve Andersson’s district. Nevertheless, it can’t help to have the photo of Mike Madigan shaking hands with Andersson that ran on front pages in both the Chicago Tribune and … Continue reading
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Phil Kadner, who was previously with the Daily Southtown, wrote an article about State Rep. Barb Wheeler’s bill to allow teenagers 18 and over to drink alcohol, as long as their parents are present. That’s the law … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times has endorsed two Democrats running for the first time in McHenry County: Nancy Zettler John Bartman Nancy Zettler is running to replace retiring State Rep. Mike Tryon. Her Republican opponent is Allen Skillicorn. John Bartman is running … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times ran an article yesterday that took three years to write. It was about how UNO, the charter school outfit backed by House Speaker Mike Madigan, spent money provided by governments. Since UNO doesn’t operate in our back … Continue reading
Candidates court newspaper endorsements. They fill out questionnaires. I remember enjoying matching wits with the Chicago Tribune folks most…especially the year when they asked questions about education funding. (The statistics did not favor the answer the questionnaire wanted. Naturally, I … Continue reading
Caught up on unread newspapers from last week yesterday and found that the Chicago Sun-Times endorsed Carolyn Schofield to replace State Rep. Mike Tryon, as you can see below: … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times joined the Daily Herald in endorsing Barrington Hills Village President Martin McLaughlin for State Senate to replace Dan Duffy. Here’s what the Sun-Times said: … Continue reading
Looking at the circulation figures of USSPI I found an interesting factoid. Look at the table below: Focus in on the McHenry County line. 110,000 households. The information shows what percentage of the households receive the Chicago Sun-Times and Tribune … Continue reading
For the second day in a row, the Chicago Tribune has a front page story on Red Light Cameras. Today’s headline reads, CITY COLLECTS $140 MILLION AT QUESTIONABLE CAMERAS Study: No safety benefit for many red light devices that pop up … Continue reading
Chicago politicians are making a big deal about robo-calls that went to Cook County and Chicago election judges that apparently caused a number not to report for duty. Barrington Hills’ Sharon Meroni of Defend the Vote and the one who … Continue reading
The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that U.S. Senator Dick Durbin is leading State Senator Jim Oberweis by a margin of 47.8% to 40.5%. Libertarian Party candidate Sharon Hansen got about 4%. 7.6% were undecided. The margin of error is 3%. … Continue reading
And none of them wished Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner “Happy Father’s Day.” The Chicago Sun-Times has four regular columnists. Two weighed in against Rauner on Sunday. A third, Laura Washington joined in today. Can Neil Steinberg be far behind? … Continue reading
It really is no surprise that the Chicago Sun-Times is a paper that usually supports Democrats. After all, most of its circulation is in Cook County. Nevertheless, the one-two punch given by columnists Carol Marin and Mark Brown did surprise … Continue reading