By Amanda Becker, Roll Call Staff
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. says he asked for guidance from the Federal Election Commission before using campaign funds to cover a portion of a trip to Israel.
Travel expenses detailed in a recent campaign finance report filed …
BYRON, Ill. (AP) — A nuclear reactor at a northern Illinois plant shut down Monday after losing power, and steam was being vented to reduce pressure, according to officials from Exelon Nuclear and federal regulators.
Unit 2 at Byron Generating Station, …
By Michael Tarm and Don Babwin, Associated Press
CHICAGO—The Rod Blagojevich who once challenged a prosecutor to face him like a man, the glad-handing politician who took to celebrity TV shows to profess his innocence, was nowhere to be found Wednesday …
BY DAVE MCKINNE, Chicago Sun-Times
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn took it squarely on the chin Tuesday, losing an important Senate vote on utility rate-hike legislation and getting a public rebuke from House Speaker Michael Madigan over his campaign pledge last …
By Dan Hinkel, Chicago Tribune
Firefighter William Caviness was a life-long athlete and veteran marathoner from North Carolina who signed up for the Chicago race aiming to raise $2,000 for burn victims.
He raised nearly $2,500 before the race, and his supporters …
In his effort to balance the city’s budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has now reached the digging-for-change-under-the-car-seat level: he’s threatening to fire city employees with unpaid parking tickets, red light camera tickets and water bills.
City workers owe nearly $3 …
BY FRAN SPIELMAN, Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago will hire 111 bypassed black firefighters by March 2012 and pay at least $30 million in damages to some 6,000 others who will never get that chance, under a court order expected to be approved …
(Reuters) – Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez was arrested in front of the White House on Tuesday afternoon while protesting deportation of illegal immigrants, a spokesman said.
Gutierrez was released and made it back to the floor of the House of Representatives …
By Mark Guarino, Christian Science Monitor
Two months into office as Chicago’s 55th mayor, Rahm Emanuel is already under scrutiny – by labor and teacher unions, the city’s inspector general, and, now, the local media.
Mr. Emanuel rode into office …
By Monique Garcia, The Chicago Tribune
The state’s largest employee union filed a lawsuit today in an attempt to force Gov. Pat Quinn to dole out raises for 33,000 workers …
