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Kane County clerk wants disbanding Aurora Election Commission's money
By James Fuller
Apr 19, 2018 7:08 PM - Where the leftover money from the Aurora Election Commission winds up will have a say in Kane County clerk's November plans.
Gingrich, Dean talk bipartisan cooperation at Judson forum
By Madhu Krishnamurthy
Apr 19, 2018 6:59 PM - Two former presidential candidates at opposite ends of the American political spectrum urged seeing the other side as human rather than the enemy Thursday during Judson University's seventh annual World Leaders Forum.
Downstate conservative roils governor race by declaring candidacy
By Marni Pyke
Apr 19, 2018 6:42 PM - Downstate Republican Illinois Sen. Sam McCann created waves in the already turbulent gubernatorial election Thursday by jumping into the governor's race as a Conservative Party candidate. He's no spoiler McCann says, calling Rauner worse than Democrat Speaker Mike Madigan.
Some 'flabbergasted' by Brown's mayoral bid
Chicago Sun-Times
Apr 19, 2018 4:59 PM - Black leaders and pundits can't understand why Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown is running for mayor of Chicago instead of running for cover four years into a federal grand jury investigation into alleged job- and promotion-selling in her office that has already bagged two targets.
Jeb Bush: Time to challenge 'bad behavior' in politics
By Katlyn Smith
Apr 19, 2018 12:11 PM - In the speech to a friendly crowd in an Oak Brook hotel, Jeb Bush denounced an ugly, vulgar side of politics that would have drawn his mother's ire.
Jeb Bush remembers his mom: 'She would never stop teaching'
By Katlyn Smith
Apr 18, 2018 9:43 PM - Jeb Bush shared memories of his mother Wednesday, speaking to a crowd of roughly 1,000 in Oak Brook. "If she was here, she'd say, 'Thank God, you made it,' because she would be very upset if I stayed at home," he said.
Mount Prospect trustee plans mayoral run in 2021
By Steve Zalusky
Apr 18, 2018 12:37 PM - Mount Prospect's longest-serving village trustee is taking aim for a higher office in the 2021 election. Trustee Paul Hoefert said Wednesday he will seek the mayor's office in three years.
'Find the joy.' The day Barbara Bush wowed Wellesley's feminist protesters with a graduation speech
By Steve Hendrix
Apr 18, 2018 6:30 AM - No president's wife in a scholar's robe ever sparked as much attention as Barbara Bush's appearance before Wellesley's Class of 1990.
Analysis: Sean Hannity's idea of 'attorney-client privilege' right out of 'Breaking Bad'
Kyle Swenson
Apr 17, 2018 8:38 AM - On Monday, Sean Hannity walked himself right into an awkward comparison whene explained that his relationship with Trump attorney Michael Cohen was limited to a few "brief discussions" on business matters. "I might have handed him 10 bucks [and said,] 'I definitely want your attorney-client privilege on this,'" Hannity told listeners Monday afternoon.
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen did legal work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity
By Philip Bump, Devlin Barrett and Beth Reinhard
Apr 16, 2018 3:01 PM - President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen did work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity in the last year, one of just three legal clients Cohen represented after leaving his post as a counsel for Trump's private company in early 2017, his attorney told a federal judge Monday.

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