Kerry Lester
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Walsh may head to WIND radioJan 15, 2013 10:14 am - Former Congressman Joe Walsh might be headed for a radio career. Walsh said Tuesday that Rolling Meadows-based station WIND 560-AM has approached him for a job as a talk...
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Business leaders voice support for gay marriageJan 14, 2013 1:31 pm - A number of Illinois businesses and their leaders have banded together to write an “open letter” in support of gay marriage in an attempt to reestablish the issue as a p...
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Walsh to hold statewide meetings before announcing plansJan 09, 2013 11:25 am - Former Congressman Joe Walsh said today that he plans to travel around Illinois for the next several months, holding meetings with voters before announcing his political...
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20 years after Brown's murders, daughter carries onJan 08, 2013 4:30 am - At the end of her first week of work as a legislative aide, Jennifer Ehlenfeldt Shilling sat down on a Wisconsin Capitol bench and wrote her father a letter filled with ...
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Sen. Kirk to retire from Naval ReserveJan 04, 2013 6:37 pm - “You’re not taking a break, Navy!” Rhode Island Sen. and Army veteran Jack Reed shouted as his colleague Mark Kirk climbed the Capitol steps for the first time Thursday ...
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Kirk's stroke draws former Porter staff togetherJan 03, 2013 6:00 pm - “We should really get together,” the onetime staffers in former North suburban U.S. Rep. John Porter's office would say, year after year. But life interceded, until news...
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Kirk’s stroke draws former Porter staff togetherJan 03, 2013 11:54 am - “We should really get together,” the onetime staffers in former North suburban U.S. Rep. John Porter’s office would say, year after year. But life interceded, until news...
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Kirk returns to Capitol after stroke: 'Let's go to work'Jan 03, 2013 9:00 am - WASHINGTON — One. Two. Three. U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk could be seen methodically counting to himself as he made his way up the U.S. Capitol steps for the first time since he...
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Suburban Democrats vow bipartisanship in CongressJan 03, 2013 4:30 am - The swearing in today of U.S. Rep.-elects Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates, Bill Foster of Naperville and Brad Schneider of Deerfield represents a 180-degree departure...
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Experts: Stroke could make Kirk a tougher opponent in 2016Jan 02, 2013 4:30 am - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk hasn’t said whether he’ll seek re-election in 2016, but experts say if he does, his recovery and return to Congress could make a campaign challenge b...