Articles filed under Politics
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'This is how I'm going to die': Officers give accounts of violent Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionJul 27, 2021 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - "This is how I'm going to die, defending this entrance," Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell recalled thinking, testifying at the emotional opening heari...
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Pritzker signs bills expanding access to mental health careJul 26, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois residents will soon have greater access to mental health services under measures Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Friday. Starting Jan. 1, most ...
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Fossil fuels will win big if Illinois can't pass an energy bill including nuclear power this yearJul 26, 2021 1:00 am - Last Monday, Gov. Pritzker announced he would be seeking re-election. The video posted to social media highlighted his efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. "In Wa...
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'When duty calls, I will always answer': Kinzinger agrees to serve on Jan. 6 committeeJul 25, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger agreed Sunday to serve on the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol. "Let me be c...
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Underwood and Casten raising big bucks ahead of 2022 congressional campaignsJul 24, 2021 1:00 am - Months after winning tough reelection races for their congressional seats, suburban Democrats Lauren Underwood and Sean Casten are raising hundreds of thousands of dolla...
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Hedge funds are killing the newsroomJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - If Hollywood wanted to make a gritty movie about the work of dig-it-out newspaper reporters who uncover big local stories of government doings and corporate misdeeds, it...
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Don't miss this chance for a real partnership to rebuild our local infrastructureJul 23, 2021 1:00 am - There's an old joke about Chicago's weather. Everyone talks about it, but no one ever does anything about it. The same could be said about our federal government's appro...
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The 2020 polling disasterJul 22, 2021 1:00 am - As the last presidential election approached, one could sense that something was wrong with the polls. The race felt tighter than the polls indicated, and specifically, ...
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Avoiding bias, oversimplification in reporting on masks, vaccines and other controversiesJul 22, 2021 1:00 am - At the Daily Herald, like most other conscientious news organizations, we make great efforts to report news stories, and especially news stories about controversial topi...
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Pritzker signs bill allowing over-the-counter birth controlJul 22, 2021 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed a law allowing pharmacists to assess and prescribe hormonal birth control to patients, a move Pritzker and champions of the bill ca...