The 2018 race for Congress in the 18th district may look a lot like the last one. Incumbent Republican Rep. Darin LaHood could have a rematch with Democrat Junius Rodriguez this November…
Lost in the political super nova of Barack Obama’s ascension to the presidency in 2008 is the fact that just six years earlier, Obama was dangling on the cusp of political irrelevancy…
Eureka College history professor Junius Rodriguez had grand ambitions of changing the color of Central Illinois’ 18th Congressional District. In the end, however, a region of…
The Dan Kelley family farm in McLean County was the site of the 2016 Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) Candidate Forum, held Aug. 24 just north of Normal. The forum, attended by a couple of…
A Belleville man has died from wounds he suffered after being involved in a gun battle with police after he opened fire on Republican congressmen Wednesday morning in Alexandria, Va….
Under breezy Saturday afternoon blue skies, more than 200 supporters turned out on Nov. 12 in Oak Park at Scoville Park for the Community for Unity Rally, organized by the Suburban…
The 114th United States Congress started their session with a 30-seat Republican majority, the largest since 1928. It had seen a House Speaker resignation, speeches by a pope and Israeli…
