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Ex-GOP leader Don Tracy running for Durbin’s U.S. Senate seatAug 13, 2025 3:09 pm - Former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy on Wednesday announced his bid for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Dick Durbin.
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While promoting vaccines, Pritzker takes shots at Trump administrationAug 12, 2025 1:27 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker took shots at President Donald Trump’s administration while promoting childhood vaccinations in Wheeling.
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‘What more could the governor do?’: Illinois lawmakers doubt state’s districts could be more gerrymanderedAug 09, 2025 9:04 am - Politicians on both sides of the aisle doubt Illinois’ congressional districts could be gerrymandered to get even more Democrats elected.
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GOP Sen. Cornyn says FBI will help locate Texas Democratic lawmakersAug 07, 2025 11:06 am - Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said Thursday that the FBI had granted his request for the agency to assist Texas law enforcement in locating Democratic state lawmakers who have left the state to stall a Trump-backed effort to redraw the state’s congressional map.
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GOP’s Ufodike to again run for 51st state House seatAug 05, 2025 11:50 am - A former township trustee from Lake County will take another run at the state House in 2026.
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‘We will hide them at our own legal peril’: DuPage Democratic leader pledges to protect Texan lawmakersAug 04, 2025 4:20 pm - More than two dozen Texas Democrats have made the West suburbs their temporary home after they fled Austin on Sunday to block a Republican redistricting plan. Here’s how that happened.
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Former GOP official Porter won’t run for Durbin’s Senate seatAug 04, 2025 9:44 am - Former Illinois National Committeeman Richard Porter of Northfield on Sunday announced he wouldn’t seek the U.S. Senate seat now held by veteran Democrat Richard Durbin.
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Republican Kate McGrath to run for 29th state Senate seatAug 01, 2025 2:40 pm - Deerfield resident Kate McGrath on Friday announced she’ll seek the Republican nomination for the 29th state Senate District seat in 2026.
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State Rep. Nabeela Syed announces campaign for Illinois SenateJul 31, 2025 12:02 pm - Democratic state Rep. Nabeela Syed of Inverness will run for the state Senate in 2026.
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Former Schaumburg Township trustee, clerk, Historical Society President Bob Vinnedge diesJul 29, 2025 4:25 pm - Longtime Schaumburg Township official and Historical Society President Bob Vinnedge of Hoffman Estates, who died Friday at 80 years old, is being remembered as a true gentleman and public servant by those who knew him best.