Rich Kelly is a veteran school teacher and Orland Township's assessor. He wants a promotion to the state Legislature.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama should be a little embarrassed. He knows $3 million to renovate an exhibit at Chicago's Adler Planetarium ought to fall near the caboose of federal grant requests.

The debate wouldn't come to me. So I went to the debate.

A couple of years ago, House Speaker Michael Madigan looked state Rep. Brent Hassert (R-Romeoville) in the eye and said: "Once you leave, that seat is ours," referring to the Will County-based seat Hassert has represented for 16 years.

T he frenzy to bail out the financial industry amid warnings of an economic meltdown are creating an ideal backdrop for a colossal $700 billion mistake.

T oday, I answer your burning questions - albeit, not the one you really want me to address, about the cancellation of a certain debate in the 11th Congressional District.

So. Explain once more why Cook County must borrow $3.75 billion just two months after the county sales tax doubled?

In a campaign commercial, state Sen. Debbie Halvorson wears a gray jacket as she smiles at constituents.