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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…

The Chicago Tribune predicts that President Barack Obama will set up his re-election headquarters in Chicago in the future.  Unlike other recent two-term Presidents - Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton , and George W. Bush - President Ob…

The housing and Derivatives crises may be behind us, but America faces another ticking Time Bomb: its underfunded state and Local Government Employee Pensions. Cities and counties alone face an estimated $574 billion in unfunded Public Pension lia…

Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat and a close ally of President Obama, will vote Friday to support the final recommendations of the Bipartisan Deficit commission, arguing that the nation's growing Debt requires lawmakers to …

Published: Dec. 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) participates in a reenactment of his swearing-in ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington on November 29, 2010. UPI/Kevin Dietsch WASHINGTON, Dec. 1…

Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) is considering a run for Chicago mayor after his appointed term comes to an end next week with the swearing in of Republican Sen.-elect Mark Kirk. Though Burris has not launched an official campaign, a group of suppo…

Governor Pat Quinn, who narrowly retained his seat after a tough campaign against Republican Bill Brady, will sit down with his former opponent at Chicago's politically popular Manny's Deli Tuesday. The meeting, which has been dubbed a sandwich…

Given a choice between Kirk and guy that’s lied repeatedly about using his failed family Bank to lend money to the mob, this wasn’t really much of choice for the Tribune editorial board. From their Endorsement : What complicates thi…