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Groupon's board has authorized the local-coupon site to raise up to $950 million in funding, a recent Delaware regulatory filing says. Google Inc. reportedly tried to buy the Chicago company for between $5 billion and $6 billion but was rejected i…

President Barack Obama will most likely be the first president in more than 40 years to run his Reelection campaign from outside the D.C. area. Every president since Richard Nixon has run his re-election campaign from either Washington D.C., or it…

Never in modern history has a sitting U.S. president attempted to win Reelection with a campaign operation based beyond the Potomac. But that's what President Barack Obama is apparently proposing to do. It's a daring strategy that Strategists h…

Incoming GOP Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois has decided to put his money where his mouth is and turn down the federally funded Health Insurance package provided to members of Congress. While in office, the Tea Party-backed, anti-health care reform W…

The day after Christmas was historic in Chicago politics as it was Richard M. Daley ’s 7,916th day in office as Chicago’s mayor.  No other mayor has lasted as long - including the current mayor’s father who began the D…

Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama , Valerie Jarrett , said that part of the re-elect Obama 2012 strategy will be for the President to get out among the people.  Jarrett says the campaign will be totally different from when he was a U.S…

For the first time since September, when there was doubt among polled-Americans of President Barack Obama ’s Christianity, Obama and his family attended church. The First Family attended services Sunday morning at a chapel which provides mu…