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CHICAGO (AP) – One letter can make a big difference – especially when it comes to a ballot in the Illinois governor’s race. (more)

This is the third in a series of articles looking at the races most likely to determine whether Republicans capture or Democrats hold the majority in the U.S. Senate after Election Day. (more)

Reporting from Chicago — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday the league is “aggressively gathering data” on the accusations against Brett Favre but declined to define a time frame for the investigation or say whether suspending the Minnesota Vikings quarterback is an option. (more)

They had a whirlwind courtship and an engagement lasting only weeks, but Crystal Bowersox and Brian Walker were hardly strangers in love. (more)

BULLITT County, Ky. –Rand Paul said he has nothing to apologize about and neither do the folks who turned up for what’s being billed as the world’s biggest machine gun shoot just outside Louisville, Ky. (more)

Last week, I struggled to 7-7, now 35-27 overall. Some unusual match-ups this week. (more)

President Obama comes to Chicago Thursday to help a few Illinois Democrats running for statewide and national offices. But the president will have to be careful to avoid stepping into a wild Chicago mayors race. (more)

No, he’s not a shrinking violet, my friend Rahm Emanuel. (more)

The polling numbers coming out of Illinios in the race to take President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat are yet another indication that Democrats are facing an unfriendly electorate this year. (more)

Rahm “Dead Fish” Emanuel plans to leave his post as Obama’s head bouncer and pocket-thug-in-residence to head home to Chicago. He wants to spend more time cussing out his family and teaching expletive-laced rap songs to South Side Chicago kids. (more)

On Day One of Rahm Emanuel’s weekend transformation from power-behind-the-throne at the White House to glad-handing big-city pol, there were awkward handshakes, unplanned stops that surprised even his handlers and two sets of protesters, including one that blocked his car. (more)

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Back-to-back blowout losses by the Giants had unglued the early season expectations that surrounded the team. A 3-0 start with little dazzle from the Bears brought out the skeptics. Sunday night’s game was supposed to solve the mysteries of just what kind of teams the Giants and Bears have. (more)

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — George Blanda, who played longer than anyone in pro football history and racked up the most points in a career that spanned four decades, mostly with the Chicago Bears and Oakland Raiders, died Monday. He was 83. (more)

Paul Kengor is the author of the new book, “DUPES: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.” The political science professor and executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College has previously authored such books as “God and Ronald Reagan” and “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.” (more)

Although Rahm Emanuel hasn’t yet said whether he’s leaving the White House to run for mayor of Chicago, speculation has been swirling in recent weeks over who will succeed him as President Obama’s chief of staff. (more)

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on Monday ruled out increased use of instant replay by umpires to review close calls during the postseason this season. (more)

A 22-year-old Chicago man angry with the city’s mayor was charged by federal prosecutors with plotting to detonate a bomb near Wrigley Field, home to the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team. (more)

CHICAGO — For a man who swings so ferociously, like a lumberjack with a hammer ringing the bell at a county fair, Jim Thome is all soft edges. He keeps his hair short, and his ears stick out, and he looks you in the eye when he talks. He nods and smiles a lot, often repeating things, earnestly, for emphasis. He is 40 and built like a mountain, yet somehow he seems like a boy. (more)

Welcome to the the second installment of Fantasy Football Rankings for Week 2. Please feel free to contact us with any specific line-up questions or general thoughts on the rankings. (more)

When, after 21 years as Chicago’s mayor, Richard Daley announced last week he would not seek another term, all speculation immediately swung to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. But if President Obama’s closest adviser runs – Emanuel has yet to come out publicly either way on the subject – chances are he won’t win. (more)