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The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) is attacking Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias for supporting tax increases in a new ad, and claims he was exempt from paying taxes in 2009. (more)

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, struggling to keep Democrats in power in the upper chamber, raised $15.5 million in September. (more)

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

CHICAGO (WLS) – The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether the state of Illinois missed the deadline for mailing absentee ballots to members of the military and other overseas American voters as part of a new federal overseas voting law. (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)

Illinois senate candidates Alexi Giannoulias and Rep. Mark Kirk met on “Meet the Press” Sunday where they sparred over ethics charges. (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)

Senate Democrats who blocked an immigration bill in 2007 say they are undecided on how to vote on the measure this week. (more)

LEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Dustin Johnson believes the fourth win of his young and promising career was the best one. (more)

Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias remain locked in a tight race for the U.S. Senate, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Illinois. (more)

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took a shot at those criticizing the construction of a Muslim community center and mosque near Ground Zero on Tuesday, asking rhetorically whether a new mosque could ever be built near the property that once held the World Trade Center. (more)

A conservative group has been banned from holding a rally at Illinois’s Old State Capitol because the site prohibits political demonstrations — yet it’s the same place where President Obama announced his run for president and later, his choice of Joe Biden for vice president. (more)

Outside a Chicago courtroom on Tuesday, former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich orated what some could remember — anything is possible — as a 21st century “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” fused with the rhetorical stylings of the late, great OJ Simpson attorney Johnnie “If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit” Cochran. (more)

“I’ve got this thing, and it’s (expletive) golden. And I’m just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I’m not going to do it. And I can always use it. I can parachute me there.” – Governor Rod Blagojevich on Obama’s Senate seat (more)

For many, same-sex marriage evokes a broad array of passionate feelings. But, yesterday’s federal court ruling that struck down California’s same-sex marriage ban, Proposition 8, is not about feelings. In fact, yesterday’s ruling is not really even about the legality of Proposition 8 inasmuch as it is about the proponents’ complete failure to argue why Proposition 8 should have been upheld. (more)

As Americans live longer, state governments are increasingly faced with looming pension obligations that threaten to break their bank accounts. (more)

Chicago, Illinois (CNN) — President Obama will display his administration’s high hopes for the U.S. auto industry when he visits a Ford plant in Chicago on Thursday. (more)

WASHINGTON — If you listen to the mythology of Washington conservatives, then you might think the close circle of Chicagoans who run the White House are masters of a modern political machine, tough-minded enforcers of what Sean Connery’s character in “The Untouchables” called “the Chicago way.” (more)

You have power that no one is telling you about. It works this way. Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid are planning to call Congress back in session after the November elections. This rare Lame Duck session will be called so they can try and pass Immigration, Cap ‘N Trade, tax increases, Card Check…just to name a few. They hope the session will be a real “doozie.” You see, even if you vote your member of Congress out of office in November, he/she still keeps the job until January 2011. That’s the way it works in each election. Except when you have a member of Congress that was appointed to fill a vacancy that occurred for one reason or another. I bet you can think of a few members of Congress who are in Congress today because they were appointed to fill a vacancy. President Obama’s Senate seat is one, and then there is the Senate seat VP Biden had for so many years. (more)

On April 15, a bill backed by the National Beer Wholesalers Association was introduced in the House aimed at limiting direct sales of beer, wine and other alcohol, which the trade group views as a mortal threat to its industry. (more)