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Alexi Giannoulias unveiled a new TV spot today, highlighting his job
creation platform -- with an assist from his mother.  Watch:

David Hoffman also released a new television ad.  It pulls glowing quotes from his string of recent ...

We were honestly quite suprised to hear last week that Ald. Manny Flores (1st Ward) had accepted
Gov. Pat Quinn's nomination to chair the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Over the past year, Flores has led some of the most important fights at
City Hall, pushing for more ...

The White House and Congressional Democrats are continuing their
efforts this week to reach consensus on a merged health care bill. Just yesterday afternoon, the New York Times reported that officials struck a deal on the proposed excise tax on "Cadillac"
insurance plans, ...

Whoever wins the Democratic primary in the 10th Congressional
District is going to get some major assistance from the national party
come the fall. Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
rolled out its list of 26 "races to watch" in 2010. IL-10 is ...

Here are some morning odds and ends in the Cook County Board president's race:

Toni Preckwinkle is building some momentum. After securing the endorsements of both the Sun-Times and the Tribune this week, the Austin Weekly News posted a short endorsement
of its own last ...

On the eve of the State of the State address, Comptroller Dan Hynes
doubled down on his attack of Gov. Pat Quinn for the Department of
Corrections' unpublicized early prison release program, unveiling a new
television ad that urges voters to "release Pat Quinn from his job...

During the fall veto session in October, the General Assembly passed a law
giving Gov. Pat Quinn authority to restore second-semester funding for
the Monetary Awards Program (MAP), an important initiative that
provides need-based college scholarships to almost 140,000 ...

Final negotiations over a health care bill are continuing in
Washington this week. Lawmakers are working on a tight deadline: If the
bill is to pass before the State of the Union address in February, the
final language would need to be finalized and sent to the ...