Articles filed under U.S. Congress
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Duckworth: U.S. shouldn’t go alone in SyriaAug 30, 2013 7:53 am - U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth says the U.S. shouldn’t go it alone when it comes to military action in Syria. In a statement Friday, the Hoffman Estates Democrat had strong w...
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Walsh weighing a bid for Durbin's U.S. Senate seatAug 30, 2013 5:30 am - During the past two elections, Republican Joe Walsh made a lot of waves in the suburbs — first defeating Democrat Melissa Bean of Barrington in 2010 to go to Congress an...
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Walsh gives advice to black conservatives in St. CharlesAug 30, 2013 5:30 am - Fresh off delivering his own controversial version of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech on the radio Wednesday, former congressman Joe Walsh doub...
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Suburban police chiefs say they want national checks for gun buyersAug 28, 2013 3:00 am - The small group of suburban police chiefs that gathered Wednesday in Lake County to discuss gun violence called for universal background checks for prospective gun owner...
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Hultgren says U.S. should intervene in SyriaAug 27, 2013 3:00 pm - Though he did not go as far as his Republican colleague in the Senate, congressman Randy Hultgren said Tuesday he supports some form of U.S. intervention in Syria. Hultg...
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Some locals still fighting Common CoreAug 18, 2013 8:03 am - The new Common Core State Standards for reading and math are not without their critics. Erin Raasch, a Villa Park mom, runs the website StopCommonCoreIL.org. She aggrega...
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New curriculum standards change suburban classroomsAug 18, 2013 8:00 am - Times are changing, and classrooms are changing along with them. For this year’s start of the eighth-grade math class Evan Borkowski teaches at Algonquin Middle School,...
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Democrat Anderson will run for Hultgren’s seatAug 15, 2013 6:00 pm - Democrat Dennis Anderson of Gurnee is planning a second run for the congressional seat now held by Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren of Winfield. Anderson lost to Hult...
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Kirk to visit Illinois State FairAug 12, 2013 4:32 pm - SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk formally steps back into the political arena this week with a trip to the Illinois State Fair, his first visit to central Illinois and ...
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Dems tout bipartisan immigration reform bill in AuroraAug 06, 2013 6:00 pm - Hailing it as what may be the best shot at meaningful immigration reform in their political careers, Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Bill Foster Tuesday teamed up with local A...