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NEW YORK — The appointment five years ago of Katie Couric as evening news anchor represented a bold step, certainly something new for CBS News. Her likely successor, Scott Pelley, hearkens back to a day when CBS was the gold standard in television n...
Updated: Apr 29, 2011 at 07:02 AM
More than two weeks after Election Day, a pair of deadlocked Lake County village-board races were decided by chance Wednesday — coin flips.
With County Clerk Willard Helander doing the honors in her Waukegan office, the coin flips awarded Patricia T...
Updated: Apr 22, 2011 at 09:18 AM
Back in 1990, Ivana Trump told her divorce lawyer Michael Kennedy that “from time to time, her husband (Donald Trump) reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, ‘My New Order,’ which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.” This information, which comes...
Updated: Apr 19, 2011 at 11:06 AM
By Froma Harrop
America's tailspin toward the cultural abyss has gained speed with an ad featuring single-mother celebrity Bristol Palin. Bloggers unfriendly to her mother, conservative entrepreneur Sarah Palin, have bashed a charity for paying Bris...
Updated: Apr 13, 2011 at 07:51 PM
Last November, about half of the registered voters in the suburbs turned out for the high-profile election of a U.S. senator, congressmen and women and for governor and other statewide and county offices.
Last week, about 55 million votes were cast ...
Updated: Apr 04, 2011 at 04:02 PM
Oak Brook. Long known for its great shopping, gleaming office buildings and gated communities teeming with expensive homes.
But lately, the upscale suburb — home to 7,883 residents, McDonald's corporate headquarters and the Oakbrook Center mall — is...
Updated: Mar 27, 2011 at 08:41 PM
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Updated: Mar 22, 2011 at 01:38 PM
I recently read the candidate profile of Mike Terson who is running unopposed for Village of Buffalo Grove trustee. He hasn’t even been elected yet and he already has mastered the political hypocrisy we unfortunately see in so many of our politician...
Published: Mar 20, 2011 at 07:00 PM
SPRINGFIELD — Suburban lawmakers who won the highest-profile, big-money legislative campaigns did so with cash largely provided by their party leaders, a trend some good government groups would like to change.
Sen. Michael Noland of Elgin, for examp...
Updated: Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 AM
It’s a pickle that, every other April, manifests itself at the suburban voting booth.
Race after race — school board, park board, library trustee — has just one candidate per seat, if that, resulting in an automatic victory or special appointment to...
Updated: Mar 22, 2011 at 07:03 PM