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Editor's Note 2/10/2015: Since the original publication of this article, the U.S. Supreme ruled in favor of Pam Harris, who is paid through the Medicaid…
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Collin Corbett is a Republican whose job it is to elect Republicans. His company in Chicago’s northern suburbs, Cor Strategies, has worked with…
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To many Tea Party leaders in Illinois, state government needs more people like Arie Friedman. A pediatrician from?Highland Park, Friedman first entered…
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As the leader of a nonprofit group that helps Latino families in western Lake County, Carolina Duque knows how difficult it can be for poor immigrants to…
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Twenty years ago, almost no one would have thought to call the Fox River village of Oswego a “suburb.” Located 50 miles from Chicago’s Loop, Oswego was…
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Tucked into the transportation legislation coming from the U.S. House last spring was a formula change that would have reduced Illinois’ highway funding…
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Although the federal stimulus package is increasingly unpopular among the American public, there’s little doubt that Illinois’ top Democrats support it.…
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By October, Illinois state officials hope to take a small but significant step in reining in Medicaid costs. By then, they hope to move about 38,000…
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On one of his first trips as president, Barack Obama visited East Peoria. He traveled to central Illinois to put a face on the recession that enveloped…
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A discussion about the federal census, the once-a-decade head count scheduled for April 1, 2010, drew nearly 200 people to an auditorium on Chicago’s…