For the second time in less than a year, Democratic candidate Debbie
Halvorson lost the chance to win Jesse Jackson Jr.’s former 2nd congressional
district seat in today’s special election primary.
Robin
Kelly won the Democratic slot to run in the district’s April 9 general
election to replace Jackson Jr., who pled guilty last week to misusing
some $750,000 in campaign funds.
“This is a big night for Robin,” former congresswoman Halvorson said in her concession speech at Homewood’s Balagio Restaurant.
“We’ve
all been through a lot, and like good Democrats we’re all family, and
we fight a lot, but at the end of the day we have to move on because
things are bigger than us.”
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Thursday marked the one-year anniversary for the repeal of the U.S.
military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy for gay, lesbian and bisexual
service members, an occasion gay rights advocates said should serve as a
reminder of the work still needed to be done to ensure full equal
rights for LGBT military personnel and their families. 
The Chicago Tea Party may not like many things – taxes, Mitt Romney,
even the Republican Party. But the Tea Party did like a video made by
Andrew Marcus, which champions Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s education
policies.
Democrats have their eyes on five Illinois congressional districts as part of their ultimate plan to regain control of the House of Representatives during the November elections. This afternoon, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced the first-round of candidates in its Red-To-Blue program, which "highlights top Democratic campaigns across the country, and offers them financial, communications, grassroots, and strategic support," according to the 
While most of Illinois was taking in the 14-year prison sentence of disgraced former governor Rod Blagojevich, hundreds of other state residents were at the nation's capitol yesterday 