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It is strange that a president supposedly obsessed with "winning" seems to be so willing to provide cover for Confederates and Nazis.  

Thumbs-up: To DeKalb Mayor Jerry Smith, who delivered his first public address at the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce’s “State of the City” event…

A truly fair system for funding Illinois public schools should include all of the state’s school districts, including Chicago. 

DeKalb’s northwest section has a surplus of rental properties, many of which originally were intended to attract college students.

Whenever enough Illinois House members are able to assemble in Springfield to consider the proposal that would raise personal income taxes o…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ri…

Thumbs-down: To an income tax hike on the horizon. While it's good to see a budget deal starting to materialize in Springfield – not in time…

This is Speaker Michael Madigan’s Illinois. It is the state Madigan has built through more than thr…

Thumbs-up: To DeKalb Police Officer Jeff Winters, whose efforts to help a homeless person he met while on patrol June 13 are a great example…

What now?That’s the critical question for Northern Illinois University in the wake of news that its …

When someone notices a perilous situation that endangers a helpless person and then intervenes to save the day, people take notice.